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July/August 2014
Table of Contents

 

Summary

In Print

Point to Point

Calls for Participation

Goings On

Deadline Reminders

 

C L I P S   A N D   P O I N T E R S

July/August 2014

 

In Print

  • ResourceSync Framework Specification, (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014), 7 May 2014.

    "The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) announce the publication of the ResourceSync Framework Specification (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014) – a new American National Standard for the web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow third-party systems to remain synchronized with its evolving resources. The ResourceSync joint project, funded with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Jisc, was initiated to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of web resources."

  • Guidance on cloud storage and digital preservation, by Neil Beagrie, Paul Miller (from Cloud of Data), and Andrew Charlesworth (Reader in IT Law, University of Bristol) for The National Archives, 2014.

    "The National Archives has published new guidance on Cloud Storage and Digital Preservation, with five accompanying case studies....Of particular interest to many archivists will be the experience of the case studies, which are available as separate PDFs from the url above. These are as follows: Dorset History Centre, Parliamentary Archives, Tate Gallery, University of Oxford, and the Archives and Records Council Wales Digital Preservation Consortium."

  • Preserving eBooks, DPC Technology Watch Report 14-01 June 2014. © Digital Preservation Coalition 2014 - and Amy Kirchhoff and Sheila M. Morrissey 2014.

    "This report discusses the current developments and issues with which public, national and higher education libraries, publishers, aggregators and preservation institutions must contend to ensure long-term access to eBook content."

  • Sustaining the Digital Humanities Host Institution Support Beyond the Start-up Phase, by Nancy L. Maron and Sarah Pickle, Ithaca S+R, June 18, 2014.

    "In this study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ithaka S+R explored the different models colleges and universities have adopted to support DH outputs on their campuses. This final report...and the accompanying Sustainability Implementation Toolkit, are intended to guide faculty, campus administrators, librarians, and directors of support units as they seek solutions for their institutions."

  • Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities, by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. and Ixchel M. Faniel, Ph.D., © OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2014.

    "This report suggests that Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science can be reordered and reinterpreted to reflect today's library resources and services, as well as the behaviors that people demonstrate when engaging with them."

  • The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025, By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center Internet Project, May 2014.

    "This current report is an analysis of opinions about the likely expansion of the Internet of Things (sometimes called the Cloud of Things), a catchall phrase for the array of devices, appliances, vehicles, wearable material, and sensor-laden parts of the environment that connect to each other and feed data back and forth. It covers the over 1,600 responses that were offered specifically about our question about where the Internet of Things would stand by the year 2025. The report is the next in a series of eight Pew Research and Elon University analyses to be issued this year in which experts will share their expectations about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, and net neutrality."

  • Best Practices for Keywords in Metadata, by the Metadata Committee's Keywords Working Group, chaired by Jenny Bullough of Harlequin Enterprises. Published by the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG), May 15, 2014.

    "[This document] addresses such questions as choosing the best keywords for your content; how to structure your keywords; where to place them in ONIX; how to use them in K-12 content, higher education textbooks, and trade titles; and resources for finding keywords that work. It is especially helpful for those who deal with metadata and ONIX records and need a detailed resource or those involved in creating and transmitting marketing copy for books."

  • University of Minnesota Social Networking Guidelines, 2014.

    "Contents

    • Basics of social networking
    • Before using social networking
    • Best practices for establishing a social networking site
    • Icons and other images
    • Social networking requirements and guidelines at the University of Minnesota"
  • The Evolving Scholarly Record, by Brian Lavoie, Eric Childress, Ricky Erway, Ixchel Faniel, Constance Malpas, Jennifer Schaffner, and Titia van der Werf. Published by OCLC Research, 2014.

    "To help organize and drive discussions about the evolving scholarly record, OCLC Research developed a framework that has been published in this report...the report provides a high-level view of the categories of material the scholarly record potentially encompasses, as well as the key stakeholder roles associated with the creation, management, and use of the scholarly record."

  • At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries, a report to the OCLC Membership, by Cathy De Rosa, et al. © OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2014.

    From the Introduction to the report: "Data collected from this study, taken together with other recent consumer research and online learning platform usage statistics, provide compelling evidence of pressure along all three dimensions (Behavior, Technology, and Economics) needed to create a tip. Empowered consumer behavior, effective technology tools and economic incentives are all pressing in the same direction – toward a new future for education and learning."

  • Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications 2014-2015, Library of Congress, 2014.

    "The Library of Congress announces the availability of its Recommended Format Specifications, a document describing the hierarchies of the physical and technical characteristics of creative formats, both analog and digital, which will best maximize the chances for preservation and continued accessibility of creative content. Creators and publishers have also begun to employ a wide array of intangible digital formats, as well as continuing to change and adapt the physical formats in which they work. The Library needs to be able to identify the formats which are suitable for large-scale acquisition and preservation for long-term access if it is to continue to build its collection and ensure that it lasts into the future."

  • Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2014.

    "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship publishes substantive content of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians to share successful initiatives and innovative ideas, and to publish peer-reviewed or board-accepted papers, including case studies, practical applications, theoretical essays, web/bibliographies, and research papers relevant to the functions and operations of science and technology libraries in all settings. Through its columns ISTL also publishes reviews, opinions, and best practices."

  • Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (June 2014), published by the U.S. Library of Congress.

    "In This issue:

    • The 2014 NDSA Innovation Award Winners
    • An Insights Interview with Zach Whalen
    • Comparing Formats for Still Image Digitizing
    • Big Data is not Going to Manage Itself
    • Personal Digital Archiving: recent projects at two public libraries
    • Residency Program: wrapping up this year, starting next year
    • Upcoming events: Digital Preservation 2014 and Curate Camp in July
    • More NDSA news, a conference report and more"
  • Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (July 2014), published by the U.S. Library of Congress.

    "In This issue:

    • Featuring "Digital Preservation and the Arts" including Web Archiving and Preserving the Arts, and Preserving Digital and Software-Based Artworks
    • An Interview with Marla Misunas (and friends) of SFMOMA, part 2
    • Community Approaches to Digital Stewardship
    • Exhibiting GIFs, with Jason Eppink
    • NDSA News with the latest reports
    • Conversation Corner, interviews with Ted Westervelt, Lisa Gitelman and Shannon Mattern
    • Residency Program updates
    • Upcoming events
  • Primary Source, Volume 16, Number 6, June 2014. Published by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    "Each issue of Primary Source contains brief articles that alert readers to new information about grants, monthly highlights of best practices, and important agency news with links to more detailed information on the website."

  • TIMBUS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2 (May 2014).

    "The EU-cofunded TIMBUS project focuses on resilient business processes. It will make the execution context, within which data is processed, analysed, transformed and rendered, accessible over long periods. Furthermore, continued accessibility is often considered as a set of activities carried out in the isolation of a single domain. TIMBUS, however, considers the dependencies on third-party services, information and capabilities that will be necessary to validate digital information in a future usage context."

 

Point to Point

  • Research Data Curation Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Scholarship, Version 4, June 23, 2014.

    "This selective bibliography includes over 320 English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions."

  • Library Tech Talk, a blog from Library Information Technology division (LIT) of the University of Michigan Library.

    "[The] goal is to share the work of LIT with a wider community of individuals interested in the role of technology in academic libraries. Posts will be authored by LIT staff and address a wide-range of innovations and issues, including work on the U-M Library website, library preservation, and new library applications for use by our faculty and students on campus."

 

Calls for Participation

  • The International Conference on Education Technologies and Computers (ICETC2014), 22 - 24 September 2014, Lodz, Poland. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 20 August 2014.

    "A few of the many topics for papers are:

    • Digital Libraries for E-Learning
    • Distance Education
    • Distance and E-Learning in a Global Context
    • E-Learning Hardware and Software
    • E-Learning Platforms, Portals
    • E-Learning Success Cases
    • E-Testing and new Test Theories
    • E-learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and information engineering"
  • 4th IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services ETTLIS (2015), 6 - 8 January 2015, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 31 August 2014.

    "The Fourth ETTLIS 2015 will take place at Jaypee Institute Information Technology Noida UP India in Association of Kings College London and technically sponsored by IEEE.... Once again, we anticipate over 400-500 participants from around the globe, with a large proportion from Asia, presenting their research findings and deliberating on the emerging trends in Information Science."

  • LinkedUp Vici Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education, Presentations and awards at ISWC 2014 (19 - 23 October 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy). Call for participation. The submission deadline is 5 September 2014.

    "LinkedUp aims to push forward the exploitation of the vast amounts of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational institutions and organizations. For Vici you are invited to design and build advanced prototypes and tools that exploit linked and/or open data for addressing real educational needs. Your tool should be mature and stable; it should be used or have been used by a fair amount of users on a realistic scale."

  • 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2015), 9 - 11 February 2015, Angers Loire Valley, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 9 September 2014.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2015, is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for Software Development."

  • 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2015), 11 - 13 February 2015, Angers Loire Valley, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 9 September 2014.

    "Pervasive and embedded computing and communication is a paradigm that aims at providing trustworthy computing solutions and communication services all the time and everywhere. This entails the need for an interdisciplinary field of R&D that combines signal processing with computer hardware and software technologies, and utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile systems."

  • 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP 2015, 9 - 11 February 2015, Angers Loire Valley, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 9 September 2014.

    "The International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy aims at creating a meeting point of researchers and practitioners that address security and privacy challenges that concern information systems, especially in organizations, including not only technological issues but also social issues. The conference welcomes papers of either practical or theoretical nature, presenting research or applications addressing all aspects of security and privacy, such as methods to improve the accuracy of data, encryption techniques to conceal information in transit and avoid data breaches, identity protection, biometrics, access control policies, location information and mobile systems privacy, transactional security, social media privacy control, web and email vulnerabilities, trust management, compliance violations in organizations, security auditing, and so on."

  • 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Track on Web Technologies, 13 - 17 April 2015, Salamanca, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 12 September 2014.

    "This track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on both practical and foundational aspects of Web technologies, as well as other technologies that in the Web framework have found new and unexpected application fields."

 

Goings On

  • IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 16 - 22 August 2014, Lyon France.

    "The IFLA World Library and Information Congress is the international flagship professional and trade event for the library and information services sector. It brings together over 3,500 participants from more than 120 countries. It sets the international agenda for the profession and offers opportunities for networking and professional development to all delegates."

  • Science and Information Conference 2014, 27 - 29 August 2014, London, United Kingdom.

    "The Science and Information (SAI) Conference is a premier venue for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from Computer Science, Electronics and Communication related areas."

  • 11th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2014), 28 - 30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "ICETE 2014 is a joint conference aimed at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information and communication technologies, including data communication networking, e-business, optical communication systems, security and cryptography, signal processing and multimedia applications, and wireless networks and information systems."

  • 11th International Conference on e-Business (ICE-B 2014), 28 - 30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "The International Conference on e-Business, ICE-B 2014, aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in e-Business technology and its current applications. The mentioned technology relates not only to more low-level technological issues, such as technology platforms and web services, but also to some higher-level issues, such as context awareness and enterprise models, and also the peculiarities of different possible applications of such technology."

  • 11th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems: WINSYS 2014, 28 - 30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "The purpose of WINSYS 2014, the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of wireless networks and mobile technologies. Information systems and information technology are pervasive in the whole communications field, which is quite vast, encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from practical issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of communication; from low level protocols to high-level networking and applications; from wireless networking technologies to mobile information systems; many other topics are included in the scope of WINSYS."

  • 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications: SIMULTECH 2014, 28 - 30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH) is to bring together researchers, engineers, applied mathematicians and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of system simulation. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas. The specific topics listed under each of these tracks highlight the interest of this conference in aspects related to computing, including Conceptual Modeling, Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Interoperability, Ontologies, Knowledge Based Decision Support, Petri Nets, Business Process Modeling and Simulation, amongst others."

  • 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications: SIGMAP 2014, 28 - 30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "The purpose of SIGMAP 2014, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of Signal Processing, including theory and practice in the field of telecommunications, image, video, audio, biometrics, etc., and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information."

  • 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (ICSOFT-EA 2014), 29 - 31 August 2014, Vienna, Austria.

    "The purpose of the ICSOFT-EA 2014, the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology, with a practical focus on software engineering and applications. The conference tracks are "Enterprise Software Technologies", "Software Engineering and Systems Security", "Distributed Systems", and "Software Project Management"."

  • Search and Learning Workshop (IIiX 2014), 30 August 2014, Regensburg, Germany.

    "This workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, survey state-of-the-art approaches, and build community around this important emerging research area. We are particularly interested in engaging researchers across the information retrieval, information behaviour, and human computer interaction fields."

  • ABIS 2014 - 20th International Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling, (held as part of Mensch & Computer 2014) 31 August - 3 September 2014, Munich, Germany.

    "For the last 19 years, the ABIS Workshop has been a highly interactive forum for discussing the state of the art in personalization and user modeling. Latest developments in industry and research are presented in plenary sessions, forums, and tutorials. Researchers, Ph.D. students and Web professionals obtain and exchange novel ideas, expertise and feedback on ongoing research before submitting their work to major conferences such as CHI, UMAP, WWW and SIGIR."

  • Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts International Conference, 31 August - 4 September 2014, London, United Kingdom.

    "The aim of the conference is to facilitate conversations on Design and collaborations between

    • Digital Arts and Humanities,
    • Creative Industries,
    • Digital Libraries and Archives,

    with an emphasis on communication futures and their impact to historical, theoretical, knowledge-transfer research processes."

  • Hypertext 2014 - 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1 - 4 September 2014, Santiago, Chile.

    "The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications."

  • 4th CompIMAGE Conference, 3 - 5 September 2014, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

    "The 4th CompIMAGE conference aims to bring together researchers in the area of computational modeling of objects represented in images. Different approaches, such as level set method, deformable models, optimization, geometric modeling, principal component analysis, stochastic methods, machine learning and fuzzy logic and so on will be discussed by the experts."

  • 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems (formerly known as I-SEMANTICS), 4 - 5 September 2014, Leipzig, Germany.

    "The annual SEMANTiCS conference (formerly known as I-Semantics) is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers, and researchers, from organisations ranging from NPOs, to public administrations, to the largest companies in the world."

  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Held jointly with TPDL), 8 - 12 September 2014, London, United Kingdom.

    "The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL enhances the tradition of conference excellence already established by the ACM and IEEE-CS by combining the annual events that these professional societies have sponsored on an annual basis, the ACM Digital Libraries Conferences and the IEEE-CS Advances in Digital Libraries Conferences."

  • NISO Two-Part Webinar: E-books for Education Part 1: Electronic Textbooks: Plug in and Learn, 10 September 2014, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Time).

    "This two-part webinar series will explore the nascent world of electronic textbooks and how publishers, students, and librarians are dealing with these new products. In Part 1, we will explore the notion of just what an electronic textbook is. Are e-textbooks an interactive 'courseware' website, an application for mobile devices and tablets, or self-contained digital files? Or is there a place for all of these and if so, how do they fit together and combine with a course syllabus?"

  • 14th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2014), 11 - 13 September 2014, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

    "CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering."

  • 2nd Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets, (held in conjunction with DL2014), 12 September 2014, London, United Kingdom.

    "The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Library, Scholarly Communication, e-Science, and e-Research with a forum where they can constructively explore theoretical, systemic, and foundational work targeting challenges regarding 'linking and contextualizing publications and datasets'."

  • Third International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, (held in conjunction with DL2014), 12 September 2014, London, United Kingdom.

    "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 or (c) develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done."

  • 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014), 15 - 17 September 2014, Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi.

    "The International Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES), previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", 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 web technologies and resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end."

  • World Congress on Education (WCE-2014), 15 - 17 September 2014, Nelspruit, Pretoria, South Africa.

    "The aim of WCE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The WCE-2014 invited research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation."

  • 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL-14) Workshop, 15 or 16 September 2014, Graz, Austria.

    "The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from the fields of digital libraries, natural language processing, information retrieval, user interfaces, the semantic web and other disciplines, where they can constructively explore and discuss the conception and realisation of systems incorporating such novelties."

  • i-KNOW 14 -14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business, 16 - 19 September 2014, Graz, Austria.

    "i-KNOW 2014 aims at advancing research at the intersection of disciplines such as Knowledge Discovery, Semantics, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Social (Semantic) and Ubiquitous Computing. The goal of integrating these approaches is to create cognitive computing systems that will enable humans to utilize massive amounts of data."

  • International Conference on Digital Intelligence, 17 - 19 September 2014, Nantes, France.

    "The main objective of Digital Intelligence (DI) 2014 is to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a large variety of fields and to provide them with the opportunity to share their visions and research achievements as well establish worldwide cooperative research and developement."

  • International Congress on Management of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Memory Institutions, 17 - 20 September 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.

    "Technological capabilities for providing access and organization and preservation of cultural heritage require efficient management of every opportunity and every single process about innovative information services delivered by the cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives and museums. Efficient management of cultural heritage and cultural memory institutions is highly important in terms of maintenance of societies' accumulations and its effective presentation in national and international environments. In this context, The main theme of the congress that will be organized bu University and Research Librarians' Association in Turkey and Istanbul University is 'Management of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Memory Institutions.'"

  • Digital Frontiers 2014, 18 - 20 September 2014, Denton, Texas, USA.

    "The Digital Scholarship Co-Operative was founded in August of 2012 as a collaboration between the University Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Co-Op is charged with fostering the creative development and use of digital resources for research, teaching, and learning across the disciplines."

  • User Experience: Seeing Your Library through the User's Eyes, 19 September 2014, a virtual conference.

    "SEFLIN has been producing virtual conferences for library staff since 2011. The conferences focus on emerging trends and technologies important to libraries and library staff from all types of libraries. Conference speakers include nationally recognized leaders and subject-experts. The conferences are one-day events delivered live online and are interactive with attendees communicating with the speakers via online chat."

  • RDA 4th Plenary, 22 - 24 September 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    "The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data. The RDA vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society."

  • 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014, 22 - 25 September 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    "The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2014 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication."

  • NISO Virtual Conference: Library Data in the Cloud, 24 September 2014, 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Time).

    "In this virtual conference, libraries that have explored the use of cloud systems will discuss their experiences, their concerns, issues encountered, and lessons learned."

  • USETDA 2014 Conference, 24 - 26 September 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA.

    "USETDA Conferences are an excellent educational opportunity for ETD professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with ETDs. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations, and encourage the formation of statewide ETD associations in the United States."

  • Ninth International Conference on Digital Information Management, 29 September - 1 October 2014, Bangkok, Thailand.

    "The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, 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."

Deadline Reminders

(Unless otherwise noted, text above enclosed in quotation marks is quoted from the web sites for those items or events or from press releases received by D-Lib Magazine from the hosting or event-affiliated organizations.)

 
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