Just in case you are like me and can not get enough on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), please join us tomorrow Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 1pm eastern - http://net.educause.edu/LIVE1202 for a current update on the project. I will be joined by Molly Tamarkin from Duke University and Mike Winkler from the University of Pennsylvania. Our session will be hosted by NCState CIO Mark Hoit. I hope you can join us.
]]>So I got an email this morning from Google telling me that their Scholar Citations service is now open to everyone. If you want to see how this works please check out my profiel for Robert H. McDonald. If you want to sign-up for a profile go to this URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en
This service is very interesting because it enables a researcher profile that can be easily filled from citations from googl scholar and can then show your author citation network based on those citations. For more on this cool Google service go to the Google Blog - http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-scholar-citations-open-to-all.html
]]>All I can say for all you newbies is register early and register fast as we sold out in 3 weeks last year for our conference in Bloomington, IN.
For registration go here - http://code4lib.org/
]]>See more at http://www.appsforlibrary.com/entries/ - voting for the ideas ends on Oct 28 so vote soon.
More on the project:
The judges have selected ten finalists for the Apps for Library Idea Challenge - http://www.appsforlibrary.com/entries/
The Apps for Library Idea Challenge launched in May. Librarians were asked to describe an app idea, the value for users and a typical user/workflow in order to compete for prizes and hopefully see their app idea built and launched. 40 ideas were submitted and vetted by the SciVerse Applications team. The international panel of judges then narrowed the field to ten finalists.
We are now entering the next phase of the competition... the Collaborative phase. We invite you to review the finalist app ideas and share your opinion (positive or negative) on whether such ideas are viable. Such feedback will help evolve the app concepts and will subsequently inform the voting that’ll start on October 17th. All eligible (substantive) comments will be entered into a drawing for one of ten gift cards for USD 50. If you have any other questions or comments please get in touch with me (m.berenstein@elsevier.com).
In their own words, the finalists are:
Determining the number of authors per article
This application would count the number of authors per article per year in a broad topical search results set. For example, in the search set [(rna or "ribonucleic acid") and (2000-2011)], what % papers have 1 author, % papers have 2 authors, % papers have 3 authors, up to what % have 10 authors, by year.
Journal Abbreviation Translator
Journal titles in the reference sections of papers are frequently presented in an abbreviated format (e.g. J Am Coll Surg for Journal of the American College of Surgeons (New York NY). Often it is necessary to ascertain the full title of a journal before, for example, searching for holdings on a library catalogue which do not generally include title abbreviations. This App will allow users to quickly and simply look up titles for given abbreviations, or vice versa within the SciVerse platform.
Journals/Conferences @ Your Fingertips
Identify the top 20 journal/conference titles relating to the user’s search results, by counting the no. of articles retrieved from each journal and provide a ranking for the top 20 journal/conference titles that these articles appear in. Automatically provide RSS feeds on the latest Table of Contents for these top 20 journals to the user.
Set up and easily customize a journal table of contents service (presumably based on Scopus collection but ideally regardless of publisher or source platform). Links can be configured to an institutional license (OpenURL or Proxy) to enable full-text access and linked into existing apps such as Share, SciverNote, and Mendeley Readers (either individual citations or batch).
The idea is an app that using live chat technologies connects library assistants with researchers. The application workflow could be: 1. A library assistant creates an account (it requires institution’s IP range) and logins using the SciVerse live chat website. 2. When a researcher needs help, he simply has to click the “Live Chat” app. Then, he will be connected with a local library assistant. 3. During the session, the library assistant will be able to see information such as user’s query.
Would combine the functionality of the SciVerse apps with the ability to IM a librarian if the library uses AIM or Meebo to provide instant message reference services. In the preferences screen, the user could add the screen name of the library’s AIM or Meebo account, and have it available when they need assistance.
This is to support search in SciVerse, Scopus, etc. and should be optional. When selected, each word in a query is checked against a thesaurus/dictionary for alternative terms. Alternative terms (synonyms) should be combined with OR in the query.
Provide intuitive visualization of result sets, with drag-and-drop capabilities to combine concepts. Show relative size of sets based upon results, overlap of concepts, and citation relationship of concepts as space between sets.
An application that would analyze a keyword search and generate some form of tag cloud with recommended controlled vocabulary terms. If this were somehow able to visually convey the number of records under each term, and the interrelation between them, I think that would be beneficial. I’m trying to describe something that would be a cross between a traditional tag cloud, like that of Delicious, and something possibly like either LivePlasma.com recommendation engine or AquaBrowser’s sidebar.
I would like to see a researcher be presented with his/her own hit/citation data, updated dynamically in the online continuum from pre- to post-pub, whenever they are logged into the website, which may mean being able easily/instantly to call it up through an app. Not only is the information of professional interest to the user, there is also a semi-tangible bit of stroking that is simply pleasing, thus giving the user a pleasant experience. The value of that cannot be overestimated.
Click through to see the full details, value for the user, typical workflows and images related to the ideas. Don’t forget to add your comments.
Stay tuned for the voting and selection of the winners. These will be announced at the Charleston Conference on November 2-5.
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The Forum will feature a keynote address by David Weinberger (http://www.toobigtoknow.com/about-2/), in addition to workshops, research updates, working sessions, demos, and more.
For complete program details, please visit our Schedule page to learn more about our program - http://www.diglib.org/forums/2011forum/schedule/
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Submissions extended till 31st August 2011
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We cordially invite you to submit a poster paper to the Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshop 2011: Building the Next Generation of Application Scientists. The workshop will be held at the SC11 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, in Seattle, Washington, USA.
High performance computing (HPC) has become an essential tool to study real world problems of significant scale or detail, and is now applied in a wide range of fields. However, successfully applying HPC can be a challenging undertaking to newcomers from fields outside of computing/computer science. For example, a graduate structural biologist might not be thoroughly aware of parallelisation techniques, data management strategies or visualisation approaches.
This workshop provides graduate students who are adopting HPC an opportunity to present early stage research and gain valuable feedback. A group of expert reviewers with significant experience will be invited to come and critique students’ work and provide constructive feedback. The goal of this workshop is to help students identify shortcomings, introduce new approaches, discuss new technology, learn about relevant literature or define their future research goals.
This workshop is relevant to a range of students, include those that:
* Are from fields outside of computing/computer science and are applying HPC tools or techniques in their domain; or
* Are applying HPC to a field where it has not traditionally been used; or
* Are new to the field of HPC and wish to present their early research outcomes.
Domain-specific applications of HPC disciplines such as parallel computing, grid computing, workflows, data management and visualisation are all considered highly relevant.
Applicants are invited to submit a one page abstract for review by small program committee. Poster presentations at the workshop should be A1 size (or approximately 2 x 3 ft) in portrait orientation.
This workshop is an initiative of the SC Ambassador’s program, aimed to increase SC engagement from international participants.
The Early Adopters Workshop successfully held in 2009 and 2010 at Supercomputing in Portland and New Orleans. Together, these two workshops have attracted almost 100 students from across Asia, USA and Europe, and as many reviewers. Please see the website for photos and details of previous events.
International Advisory Committee
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David Abramson, Monash University
Wojtek James Goscinski, Monash University
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Karen Haines, University of Western Australia
David Gavaghan, University of Oxford
Dieter Kranzlmueller, LMU Munich
Hong Ong, MIMOS Berhad
Depei Qian, Beihang University
Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Ron Perrott, Queen's University, Belfast
Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, Boston University
Expert Reviewers
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Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Ilkay Altintas, UCSD
Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University
Mark Baker, University of Reading
Shawn T. Brown, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Chris Hines, iVEC
Robert Ferraro, NASA
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University
Weidong Liao, Shepherd University
Amit Majumdar, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Louis Moresi, Monash University
Radha Nandkumar, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Thillai Raj Ramanathan, MIMOS Berhad
Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
Anne Trefethen, Oxford e-Research Centre
Geoffrey Vallee, Oak Ridge National Lab
Submissions
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One page abstract in PDF format -
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eapw11
Key Dates
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Abstract submission - 31st August
Workshop - Monday, November 14th, Seattle, USA (Time and date to be confirmed)
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THATCamp Philly is being held on September 23 to 24, 2011 in downtown Philadelphia (exact location to be determined). Apply now to participate in this “unconference” where YOU get to determine what is on the agenda. This intensive, innovative, participatory one or two-day event will include one day of technical workshops (Friday, September 23) and one day of interactive sessions (Saturday, September 24). The goals of this event include enriching essential, emerging cultures of collaboration and technology in the fields of arts, education, technology, museums, libraries and archives.
There are limited spaces-Apply now at
http://philly2011.thatcamp.org/registration/ if you:
-are interested in the digital humanities;
-wish to convene and cross-pollinate ideas and people in the greater Philadelphia region to develop strategies for improving access to and understanding of the humanities;
-wish to learn technical skills that use cutting-edge web-based solutions to expand the reach and increase the efficiency of humanities work;
-wish to build a collegial community where we can rely on our colleagues’ help, critiques, resources, ideas, and support;
-are techie and think that you can contribute to cultural institutions’ digital efforts;
-are NOT techie but wish that you were;
-are a student, scholar, or academic;
-are broke: THATCamp Philly is committed to providing low-cost or no-fee access in order to encourage participation by those who often cannot afford to attend conferences!
For more information, go to http://philly2011.thatcamp.org
THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) was started at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 2008. Over 40 THATCamps have since been held internationally since that time.
]]>CURATEcamp 2011 is a two-day unconference connecting practitioners of digital curation with technologists and software developers.
We still have a few registrations left - if interested you can register online at:
http://www.regonline.com/curatecamp2011
CURATEcamp 2011 is generously sponsored by the Pennsylvania State University; the Storage Networking Industry Association; the University of California, Los Angeles; Indiana University; and the Digital Library Federation (Council on Library and Information Resources).
For more on the Curate Camp Community go to - http://curatecamp.org/
]]>To paraphrase a bit from their call:
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee is delighted to announce today a Beta Sprint that aims to surface innovations that could play a part in the building of a digital public library.
The Beta Sprint seeks, ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc. – put forth as a written statement, a visual display, code, or a combination of forms – that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. The Beta Sprint also encourages development of submissions that suggest alternative designs or that focus on particular parts of the system, rather than on the DPLA as a whole.
See more: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla
Press Release: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Digital_Public_Library_America_Beta_Sprint
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Today's session which kicks off again at 1pm includes one of our own members of the evolving technologies committee, Jeniffer Sparrow (@jennifersparrow).
You might want to check out some of the great live tweeting going on by
Steve DiFilipo (http://twitter.com/#!/s_df)
Derek Bruff (http://twitter.com/#!/derekbruff)
Neal Cross (http://twitter.com/#!/nealcross)
Christa Appleton (http://twitter.com/#!/christa_line)
If you want to follow what's going on with this sprint in the tweetosphere - follow #edusprint
You might also want to see what this group is doing in using ideascale (like an online ideagora) - http://educause.ideascale.com/
There is also a great blog post on the event by Alan Levine at cogdogblog - http://cogdogblog.com/2011/04/25/unique-santa/
Additionally - the folks a Educause are posting a daily newsletter for this event that lists what is going on - http://educause.informz.net/educause/archives/archive_1459699.html
This format of onlline only is really great and a cool use of technology - without having so much travel involved. Kudos to the folks at ELI and Educause who are making this happen.
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