A couple of things recently have brought to mind the phrase "smoke and mirrors" or in other words, things are not what they seem.
One person asked me about the digitization industry and how businesses are doing. Businesses always put on a good front, but what's really going on? What do the special deals and price cuts mean? Does the business seem too anxious to get your contract (work)? It can be hard for a business to be transparent...they aren't going to show you their financial records...so you can wonder if what you're seeing is truly good or "smoke and mirrors".
On the other side, organizations put out requests for proposal that seem to leave questions unanswered. The clues about their reality are in there, but will you recognize them? Could they be more transparent? Would they receive better proposals if they were?
And then there are programs that use a bit of "smoke and mirrors" in order to obscure they scope of what they have done. They feel that admitting that the scope of the project was bounded by X, Y and Z may make people think less of it. Yet if they were more transparent, people would understand the project more.
Smoke isn't permanent and so the truth will be revealed eventually. Mirrors can distort the truth, but they can also reflect the truth so clearly that it cannot be ignored. Wouldn't it be nice if we all just decided to be more transparent and truthful?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Jill's June schedule - Will I see you at SLA (DC) or in Florida?
With the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC, just days away, the question is -- Will I see you there? I'm involved in five events (below) . There are many sessions I hope to attend, so if you don't catch me at one of my sessions, you might see me running through the halls heading towards something interesting! SLA is famous for its open houses, so maybe we'll cross paths there, too.The sessions I'm involved in are:
- June 14, 10 Things in One Day: Applying social tools to your library (workshop with Sophia Guevara)
- June 15, Copyright, Social Media and the Corporate Library (panel discussion)
- June 15, Conversant: How do librarians infuse knowledge into their organizations? (unconference session #3)
- June 16, The Consultant's Toolkit: Discovery in the Round (panel discussion)
- June 17, Digital Preservation: Discovery in the Round Conversation (panel discussion)
Updated 6/9/2009, 10:44 a.m.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Event: The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
Call for papers received via email....
Description and Objectives
---------------------------
In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its digital components, in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge.
These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.
The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (EDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations, and tutorials and workshops.
Topics
-------
We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library
- Open Source
Paper Submission
----------------
Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website.
Submissions should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers.
Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.
Important Dates
----------------
- Full Paper submission: June 15, 2009
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 5, 2009
- Camera Ready Papers Due and Registration: September 15, 2009
- Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2009
Special issues and Journal Publication
---------------------------------------
Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals:
- International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
- Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
- Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI)
- International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC)
- International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
Committees
-----------
General Chair
-------------
Nicolas Spyratos, Paris-Sud University, France
Program Chairs
--------------
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Workshops Chairs
----------------
Yinghua Ma, University of Jiaotong, China William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Tutorial Chair
--------------
Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Publicity Chair
---------------
Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg
Local Organizing Committee Chairs
---------------------------------
Nicolas Lumineau, Lyon 1 University, France Cecile Favre, University of Lyon2, France
International Program Committee:
(see the web site for the full list)
Technorati tag:
Digital Libraries
The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
Technically sponsored by both ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
Technically sponsored by IEEE France & IEEE SMCS
with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
October 27-30, 2009
Lyon - France
Technically sponsored by both ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
Technically sponsored by IEEE France & IEEE SMCS
with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
October 27-30, 2009
Lyon - France
Description and Objectives
---------------------------
In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its digital components, in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge.
These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources.
The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (EDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations, and tutorials and workshops.
Topics
-------
We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library
- Open Source
Paper Submission
----------------
Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website.
Submissions should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers.
Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.
Important Dates
----------------
- Full Paper submission: June 15, 2009
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 5, 2009
- Camera Ready Papers Due and Registration: September 15, 2009
- Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2009
Special issues and Journal Publication
---------------------------------------
Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals:
- International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
- Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
- Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI)
- International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC)
- International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
Committees
-----------
General Chair
-------------
Nicolas Spyratos, Paris-Sud University, France
Program Chairs
--------------
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Workshops Chairs
----------------
Yinghua Ma, University of Jiaotong, China William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Tutorial Chair
--------------
Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Publicity Chair
---------------
Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg
Local Organizing Committee Chairs
---------------------------------
Nicolas Lumineau, Lyon 1 University, France Cecile Favre, University of Lyon2, France
International Program Committee:
(see the web site for the full list)
Technorati tag:
Digital Libraries
Event: Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management
Call for papers received via email....
Call for Papers
Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006) Lyon (2007), and London (2008) the fourth event is organized at Michigan (2009). The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will have original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentation.
The topics in ICDIM 2009 include but are not confined to the following areas.
(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html)
Important Dates
1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM)
2. International Journal of Information Studies (IJIS)
3. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA)
4. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC)
5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE)
6. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA)
Programme Committee
General Chair
William I. Grosky
University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA.
Program Chairs
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Frederic Andres, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Program Co-Chairs
Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Workshop Chairs
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Publicity Chair
Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg
Local Arrangements Chair
Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA
Susan Haynes, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Technorati tag:Digital Libraries
Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2009)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
November 1-4, 2009
http://www.icdim.org
Technically co-sponsored by the Technology Management Council of IEEE.
Proceedings will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
November 1-4, 2009
http://www.icdim.org
Technically co-sponsored by the Technology Management Council of IEEE.
Proceedings will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore
Call for Papers
Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006) Lyon (2007), and London (2008) the fourth event is organized at Michigan (2009). The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will have original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentation.
The topics in ICDIM 2009 include but are not confined to the following areas.
- Temporal and Spatial Databases
- Data Mining
- Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
- E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government
- Web Metrics and its applications
- XML and other extensible languages
- Semantic Web and Ontology
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
- Knowledge Management
- Ubiquitous Systems
- Peer to Peer Data Management
- Interoperability
- Mobile Data Management
- Data Models for Production Systems and Services
- Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
- Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
- Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
- Security and Access Control
- Information Content Security
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
- Distributed information systems
- Information visualization
- Web services
- Quality of Service Issues
(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html)
Important Dates
- Submission of papers: June 15, 2009
- Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 15, 2009
- Camera Ready Paper Due: September 1, 2009
- Author Registration: September 1, 2009
- Late Registration: October 1, 2009
- Conference Dates: November 1-4, 2009
1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM)
2. International Journal of Information Studies (IJIS)
3. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA)
4. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC)
5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE)
6. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA)
Programme Committee
General Chair
William I. Grosky
University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA.
Program Chairs
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Frederic Andres, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Program Co-Chairs
Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Workshop Chairs
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Publicity Chair
Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg
Local Arrangements Chair
Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA
Susan Haynes, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Technorati tag:
Digital Libraries
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Conference
On May 21, I spoke at the annual conference for the Society of Ohio Archivists. Thanks to the event organizers and especially Ron, Glenn and Eric for their help in getting me there and back, and ensuring that all went well for my presentation.The event was held at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus, OH, which has nice space for events of this size. The event included sessions on digitization and other topics of interest to archivists. Participants came from across Ohio and even from as far away as Chicago!
I gave the plenary session entitled “What We Are Learning From Google & Flickr About Digitization and Partnership”. An excerpt of my slides is below. What I wanted to do was to get people to step back and think about what Google
As I reflect on the questions that were asked and the conversations that occurred later in the day, these thoughts come to mind:
- Collaboration is the way to go when thinking about digitization.
- Hooking up with a for-profit organization has its benefits, but we need to keep in mind that they are focused on profit, while we're focused on service.
- We all need to be aware of those for-profit organizations (e.g., Google and Flickr) that are working with non-for-profit organizations and what they are doing. This stuff does get reported in the news, on various web sites and in a number of blogs. We need to be seeing/skimming/reading the announcements.
- We need to be mindful of all that Google is doing. We blind ourselves to the company's power when we think of them as only a search engine.
- While Google in not the only search engine in the world, Flickr is also not the only photo-sharing service. Each service has its pros and cons.
- Google is challenging how we think about digitization (e.g., access vs. preservation, quantity vs. quality). It is important to know what is being sacrificed and what benefits are being received.
What We Are Learning From Google & Flickr About Digitization and Partnership
View more OpenOffice presentations from Jill Hurst-wahl.
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