The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work (i.e., the consortium is not intended for those who are finished or nearly finished with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students will present and discuss their research in the context of a well-known and established international conference, in a supportive atmosphere with other doctoral students and an international panel of established researchers. The workshop will take place on a single full day 9am-5pm (June 19, 2017).
Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly central to the research process. They are not only used for traditional tasks, such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as a source for discovering new research trends or evaluating research excellence. With the current growth of scientific publications deposited in digital libraries, it is no longer sufficient to provide only access to content. To aid research, it is especially important to leverage the potential of text and data mining technologies to improve the process of how research is being done.
This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who: (a) are interested in analysing and mining databases of scientific publications, (b) develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases (especially those who run databases of publications) or (c) who develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done.
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.
Keynote Ray Siemens
Describing academic production up to early last century, literary theorist Northrop Frye observed of what he called the Wissenschaft period, one of building knowledge via dynamic systematic research, that its “imaginative model was the assembly line, to which each scholar ‘contributed’ something [to] an indefinitely expanding body of knowledge” (Northrop Frye [1991]. “Literary and Mechanical Models”). Reflecting on tendencies in the mid- to latter stages of last century, William Winder has noted that “Amassing knowledge is relatively simple … [but] organizing, retrieving, and understanding the interrelations of the information is another matter” — encouraging us to imagine the challenge of our information age, a neo-Wissenschaft period perhaps, as one that “brings with it … issues of retrieval and reuse” and requiring us “to be just as efficient at retrieving the information we produce as we are at stockpiling it” (William Winder [1997]. “Texpert Systems.”). Today, as we revisit issues related to the production, accumulation, organization, retrieval, and navigation of knowledge, we typically do so with attention to contemporary technologies that have worked to redefine roles associated with these issues, introducing new imaginative models for academic knowledge production and engagement.
My talk builds on this foundation and considers ways in which open social scholarship’s framing of these elements, and beyond, encourage building knowledge to scale in a Humanistic context and others. Open social scholarship involves creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad audience of specialists and active non-specialists in ways that are accessible and significant. As a concept, it has grown from roots in open access and open scholarship movements, the digital humanities’ methodological commons and community of practice, contemporary online practices, and public facing “citizen scholarship” to include i) developing, sharing, and implementing research in ways that consider the needs and interests of both academic specialists and communities beyond academia; ii) providing opportunities to co-create, interact with, and experience openly-available cultural data; iii) exploring, developing, and making public tools and technologies under open licenses to promote wide access, education, use, and repurposing; and iv) enabling productive dialogue between academics and non-academics.
Keynote Salvatore Mele
Preprints have shaped scholarly communication in High-Energy Physics since more than half a century. Pioneering preprint servers and community-driven digital libraries created a unique ecosystem for information discovery and access in the discipline (as well as in Astronomy and, to some extent, branches of Economics and the Social Sciences). These infrastructures have long coexisted with academic journals, serving distinct needs in the spectrum from dissemination to certification. Recently some academic journals entirely ‘flipped’ to Open Access, modifying some of those roles. We report on the results of two data-driven studies to assess this coexistence, and complementarity.
First, leveraging information from the INSPIREHEP.net platform, we analyzed millions of citations to and from preprints and journal articles to study the effect of early availability of scientific information in citation patterns in the discipline.
Second, with the gracious help of arXiv.org and leading scholarly publishers, we compared downloads statistics to assess access patterns for ‘fresh’ and ‘archival’ material and how Open Access modifies researchers’ practices.
Those findings are particularly relevant in the current scenario of renewed attention to preprints as a medium for scholarly communication.
Research in disciplines such as the earth and biological sciences depends on the availability of representative physical samples that often have been collected at substantial cost and effort and some are irreplaceable. The EarthCube iSamples (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) RCN (Research Coordination Network), funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. The goal of this workshop is to attract a broad audience comprising of biologists, earth scientists and those working with physical samples, data curators, along with computer and information scientists to learn from each other about the requirements of physical as well as digital sample and collection management. This is a fourth in a series of workshops held previously at JCDL 2016, ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016, and a forthcoming workshop at iConference 2017, which have been targeted to develop a global community of scholars whose work relates to physical samples.
This workshop runs over two days:
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.
This program has been cancelled as of June 14, 2017.
Rich semantics supports detailed information organization for the contents of documents, across documents, and even across resources in different modalities. In its strongest form, rich semantics provides highly-structured direct representations. This workshop welcomes papers on new directions for frameworks using such rich information organization. Rich semantics goes beyond simple models for linked data such as those using RDF-based triples and beyond ad hoc ontologies. Rather, rich semantic frameworks may include complex entities, dynamic models, schemas, systems, and descriptive programs.
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.
This workshop will explore integration of Web archiving and digital libraries, so the complete life cycle involved is covered: creation/authoring, uploading/publishing in the Web (2.0), (focused) crawling, indexing, exploration (searching, browsing), archiving (of events), etc. It will include particular coverage of current topics of interest, like: big data, mobile web archiving, and systems (e.g., Memento, SiteStory, Hadoop processing).
This workshop runs over two days:
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.
Research in disciplines such as the earth and biological sciences depends on the availability of representative physical samples that often have been collected at substantial cost and effort and some are irreplaceable. The EarthCube iSamples (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) RCN (Research Coordination Network), funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. The goal of this workshop is to attract a broad audience comprising of biologists, earth scientists and those working with physical samples, data curators, along with computer and information scientists to learn from each other about the requirements of physical as well as digital sample and collection management. This is a fourth in a series of workshops held previously at JCDL 2016, ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016, and a forthcoming workshop at iConference 2017, which have been targeted to develop a global community of scholars whose work relates to physical samples.
This workshop runs over two days:
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.
This program has been cancelled as of June 14, 2017.
This workshop will explore integration of Web archiving and digital libraries, so the complete life cycle involved is covered: creation/authoring, uploading/publishing in the Web (2.0), (focused) crawling, indexing, exploration (searching, browsing), archiving (of events), etc. It will include particular coverage of current topics of interest, like: big data, mobile web archiving, and systems (e.g., Memento, SiteStory, Hadoop processing).
This workshop runs over two days:
For more information, including submission instructions, see workshop webpage.