Information Science

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• Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science

  
  CoRPia — Authority: 91
  GIScience 2010                ( http://www.giscience2010.org ) Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science         Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010                       CALL FOR PAPERS OVERVIEW: Zurich, Switzerland will be the host city of ...
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• December 23: 12 Pearls of Christmas : Wondrous Mystery

  
  Loving Heart Mommy — Authority: 132
  Get your button hereDecember 23:12 Pearls of Christmas: Wondrous MysteryMagnificatby Anna JoujanHoly. Holy. Holy is the Lord. The familiar catch of breath. The sting in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• SCIENCE NEWS

  
  Cedar Creek Voice — Authority: 435
    December 16, 2009 Scientists discover Earth-like,  water-rich planet: study AFP/NASA-HO/FIle – View of a star cluster in outer space. Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger …   PARIS (AFP) – Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that ...
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• Education for Information Security in a Connected World

  
  Shepherd's Pi — Authority: 414
  Much of what I work on involves technologies which address information security and cyber security. So I have to ask, Who is training our next generation of technologists? And are those educators doing enough to focus on the dynamically changing demands of Information Security? Those fundamental questions took ...
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• Another idea from the scholarly evaluation metrics workshop

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  One thing that kind of bugs me is that people answer the question "what impact has your funding had" with things like "I hired 3 postdocs and 2 support staff." Dr Lane talked about this at the workshop, but to some extent, I dont think her solution actually got at the bigger problem: societal impact. How has your ...
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• Educational Opportunites with Texting and Tweets

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 583
  For parents of teenagers equipped with cell phones, the issue of texting and tweeting often appears to be a perpetual adolescent activity. Rather than outlaw the behavior, a professional educator suggests the actions should be used as a method to obtain student interaction and participation. According to Carol L. ...
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• NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 3

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  stream of consciousness notes from this meeting I attended in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Final panel Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris Group), Todd Carpenter (NISO),Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC),Tony Hey (Microsoft Research),Clifford Lynch (CNI),Don Waters (Andrew W. Mellon foundation) introduction from Cliff Lynch - ...
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• NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 2

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  Continuing stream of consciousness notes from this workshop held in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research Council) - intertwined research funding structures at national and European level. At the national level two main funding modes - institutional (block research funding ...
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• NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 1

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  this continues my stream of consciousness notes from the workshop held in DC, December 16, 2009. Peter Binfield (PLOS) - article level metrics. Not talking about OA, not talking about journal level.  Journal is just packaging, and shouldnt necessarily judge articles by the packaging. PLoS ONE has half a percent to ...
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• NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Morning 2

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  Continuing my stream of consciousness notes from this meeting in DC, Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Jevin D West (U Washington, Eigenfactor) - biology and bibliometrics. biology has a lot of problems that are studied looking at networks. From ecosystems to genomes. They want to take these huge networks and be able ...
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• NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Morning 1

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  I attended this one-day workshop in DC on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. These are stream of consciousness notes. Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL) - intro - Lots of metrics: some accepted in some areas and not others, some widely available on platforms in the information industry and others not. How are these metrics ...
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• Registration Open "New Discovery Tools Symposium"

  
  Academic Commons — Authority: 99
  NERCOMP in partnership with the Boston Library Consortium and National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) are pleased to present: "New Discovery Tools Symposium." DATE : February 1, 2010 TIME : 9:00 - 3:00 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00) PRICE : NERCOMP Members: $95, ...
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• France Takes a Stand on Digitization

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  In the context of Robert Darnton’s efforts, in the latest issue of The New York Review , to make sense out of the legal muddle over the digitization plans behind the Google Book Search effort, yesterday’s news from Paris, as reported by Scott Sayare for The New York Times , throws an interesting light on ...
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• The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 115
  The University of Michigan Press and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the launch of The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/ HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize .  The series editors are ...
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• SCIENCE NEWS

  
  Cedar Creek Voice — Authority: 435
    December 7, 2009 Public Space Travel: Reality or Mirage? AP – This undated file photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows placement of the center beam during SpaceShipTwo’s …   Leonard David SPACE.com ’s Space Insider Columnist M OJAVE, California – Today’s planned ...
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• A scientist talks about requirements for social software for scientists

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  Ive weighed in a few times on how to build online communities or support scientists online, but its really worth paying attention to when you get an actual scientist who is also very involved in and interested in social software tell you what he thinks. Cameron Neylon did just that in a recent blog post (comments ...
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• Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity

  
  Wired Mods — Authority: 746
  Belgian bibliographer Paul Otlet dies, and with him his dream of the Mundaneum. It was to be a universal -- and interlinked -- weblike compendium of all the worlds knowledge.
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• U.S. Fed. Government Publishes Request for Information About “Enhancing Access” to Federally Funded Research from Sci-Tech Agencies

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 639
  Published in Today’s Federal Register: With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by Federal science and technology ...
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• SCIENCE NEWS

  
  Cedar Creek Voice — Authority: 435
  December 4, 2009   Ancient Volcano’s Devastating Effects Confirmed Staff li vescience.com A massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the distant past killed off much of central India’s forests and may have pushed humans to the brink of extinction, according to a new study that ...
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• Should we talk about disciplines?

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 419
  In "common parlance" we throw around chemistry, biology, physics, and all, sort of throwing off the diversity within these disciplines. Gosh, in my comps I answered (or attempted to answer) a question about how useful it was to talk about "scientists" and non-scientists. Going the other way, Ill frequently discuss ...
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