Call for Papers: 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

Description and Objectives
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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)

Source:
  Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science     
  Associate Professor                           
  Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS)                 
  Bourgogne University                          
  Aile de l'Ingénieur                           
  Office GS 16                                  
  BP 47870                                      
  21078 Dijon CEDEX France                      
  Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55                        
  Fax: +333 80 39 68 69                         
  Email: richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr        
  Web: http://www.le2I.com                      

Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable)

The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in textual studies. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, and beyond.

The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with those associated with INKE's textual studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK.

The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools.  Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement.

Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows: TEI P-5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails.  Experience in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related project and similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required.

Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues.

The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to etcl-apply@gmail.com . The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal.

Interviews are anticipated to take place in June at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, and other venues at which INKE team members are present.  Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled.

http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/30/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-history-and-future-of-the-book-2009-10/#more-328

 

Russia Top Hit # 1 for Week Ending 05-31-2009: Винтаж - Ева / Vintage - Eva [ OFFICIAL VIDEO 2009! ]

Dear Visitors, I have decided to post on biweekly basis, #1 song for that particular week in Russian Federation. Please enjoy- Eva by Vintazh

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 4nd International Workshop on Ontology Content

Special tracks on:
Business | Human Resources | eHealth | Web 3.0

OnToContent'09
Nov 6, 2009, Algarve, Portugal
Part of the OTM (OTM'09)
Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS

Call for Papers
In recent years the expectations of software technology based on social networking and social analysis have increased tremendously. Where the initial interest was focused on the Web community, reflecting the success of Web 2.0 applications and the growth of relevance of social  networks analysis. Today, however, this interest extends also to include business and government organizations. A major trend in many areas involves the creation of hybrids incorporating elements of both traditional knowledge management and business process management techniques. In this context the issues related to the quality of data representation acquire a new relevance. For the sorts of accurate and timely analysis of data needed by major organizations demand that data be formulated in ways that are expressive and manipulable at the same time. In this context the role of good quality ontology (i.e. good quality conceptualizations, encoded in portable and extensible format) is more and more relevant.

This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies, approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology content management (e.g. metadata, libraries, and registration), ontology documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to ontology content issues in: Business, human resources and employment, healthcare and life sciences, and Web 3.0. We welcome papers and (past/planned) project descriptions that discuss ontology aspects, particularly:
Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry.
Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention.
Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in industry.

Topics

Methodology and Engineering
Ontology design patterns
Ontological usability and usefulness.
Ontology metadata, and libraries.
Ontology interoperability.
Consensus reaching.
Ontology tools.
Modeling and engineering methodologies.
Ontology evolution and versioning.

Web 3.0 Ontologies
Lessons from Web 2.0 for ontology engineering
Experiences with participatory and evolutionary approaches to ontology engineering (e.g., based on social software)
Lightweight ontology formalisms (e.g., SKOS) and microformats
Experiences/empirical results on lightweight vs. heavy-weight ontologies
Experiences/empirical results on graphical modeling of ontologies
Experimental evidence (e.g., from cognitive science) on conceptual modeling
Challenges/requirements for maintenance and evolution of ontologies
Good, best, and bad practices

Ontologies for Business Process Representation and Management
Ontologies for modeling Business Process.
Ontologies for monitoring Business Process.
Ontologies for Risk Analysis.
Ontologies for Supply Chains.

Ontologies for Human Resources
Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills, Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc.
HR upper level concepts.
Semantics of HR-XML.
Semantic metadata for HR applications.
Semantics in job matching.
Semantics is learning technologies.
Multilinguality in human resources ontologies.
Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation.

Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences
Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation

Submissions
We invite (A) Research papers describing original studies of no more than 10 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no more than 8 pages. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. The paper submission page is at:http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/ontocontentsub/

Important dates
Abstracts due: June 15
Papers due: June 29
Acceptance Notification: August 10
Camera-ready copies: August 25
Registration due: August 25
OTM Conferences: November 1 – 6

Source: Program Chair:
        Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. [main contact] paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it

The May 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

The May 2009 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.

 

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200905.pdf

 

Articles in this issue:

 

* Public Interest in Private Records

* State Partners Meet

* NARA Conference Explores a New Preservation Era

* International Intern at NDIIPP

* World Digital Library & other announcements

 

Source:

Butch Lazorchak

Digital Archivist

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) wlaz@loc.gov

(202) 707-2603

The Library of Congress

LM637

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20540-4604

Call for the nominations for the 2009 AATSEEL awards for teaching, service and scholarship

The Nominations and Awards Committee of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Language, invites nominations for the 2009 AATSEEL awards for teaching, service and scholarship. (A complete list of awards and past recipients 1991-2008 is on the AATSEEL web page at http://www.aatseel.org/awards_2005167

Please send any and all nominations, or questions about the process or the awards, to any or all members of the committee:

Sibelan Forrester sforres1@swarthmore.edu

Keith Langston langston@uga.edu

Boris Wolfson bwolfson@amherst.edu

Source:
Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian
Modern Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College
(AATSEEL Past President, 2009-2010)

Fast Food

Dear Readers and Visitors



I have not posted blog notes of personal nature for the longest. However, today I came accross this videoclip and was kind of thoughtful about "the close reading" process that I am used to by now. I seem to find the clip on one hand offensive to many women, and on the other hand, I did not know that the fastfood has become a norm in the former CIS. Perhaphs, I am wrong? Please respond without personal attacks. Many thanks. Liladhar

Born in the USSR- Any comments?

Russia, China, and the United States in Central Asia: Prospects forGreat Power Competition and Cooperation in the Shadow of the GeorgianCrisis. (A 2009 free download E-book)

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, US

Self-description:
"Russia, China, and the United States in Central Asia: Prospects for Great Power Competition and Cooperation in the Shadow of the Georgian Crisis. [2009].

Authored by Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick. Russia and China have been reacting to the pressures of changing U.S.-Central Asia policy over the past 5 years as has the United States. In response to the 'color' revolutions, they achieved broad agreement on the priority of regime security and the need to limit the long-term military presence of the United States in Central Asia.
These are also two key areas -- defining the political path of Central Asian states and securing a strategic foothold in the region -- where the United States finds itself in competition with Russia and China. The Russia-China partnership should not be seen as an anti-U.S. bloc, nor should the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) be viewed as entirely cohesive. Although there is considerable suspicion of U.S. designs on Central Asia, divergent interests within the SCO, among Central Asian states, and especially between Russia and China serve to limit any coordinated anti-U.S. activity. Despite the fissures within the SCO and the competitive tendencies within the Sino-Russian partnership, the United States will not have an easy time achieving its aims in Central Asia. The author documents how American policy goals -- energy cooperation, regional security, and support for democracy and the rule of law -- continue to run at cross-purposes with one another. In particular, she asserts that competition to secure basing arrangements and energy contracts only benefits authoritarian regimes at the expense of enduring regional security. She argues further that the rhetoric about a new Cold War in the aftermath of the Georgian crisis, and the more general tendency to view U.S.-Russia-China competition in the region with 19th century lenses, as some sort of 'new great game,' obscures the common interests the great powers share in addressing transnational problems in Central Asia."



URL http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=907

Budget Related Message from the UCLA Chancellor Dr. Gene Block

UCLA Office of the Chancellor

 

To the Campus Community:

In the wake of last Tuesday's election, we are all greatly concerned about the budget deficit and its impact on the University of California and UCLA.  You may have read that the state Legislative Analyst's Office has increased, yet again, the projected budget shortfall — from $21 billion, contemplated at the time of last Tuesday's election, to $24 billion.

There will be three levels of decision-making in the coming months that affect the severity and nature of cuts to the university:  state government (legislature and governor), UC system (President Yudof and the Regents) and UCLA.  We do know that the cuts will be severe, and there is no question that we are facing difficult and painful choices.

We are in no position at this time, however, to predict the level and extent of cuts to the university that may impact our current planning levels.  Right now, I encourage you to visit http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/campus-budget.aspx for up-to-date information about the state deficit, and UC and UCLA actions.

As the governor and state legislature negotiate next year's budget, UC and UCLA will advocate for our critical needs and priorities, such as the Cal Grants program.  Recently, as you may know, the media reported that the governor is proposing the potential elimination of Cal Grants, which would greatly reduce low-income families' access to the University of California.  I am deeply concerned about these recent reports.  President Yudof has expressed similar sentiment.

Nevertheless, we face a difficult period of uncertainty.  As we move through this process, please do what you can to stay informed, help the campus achieve cost efficiencies and continue to lend your voice as an ambassador for public higher education in California.

Sincerely,

Gene D. Block
Chancellor

Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Regime (a 2008 free download E-book)

Dear Readers,

Although this e book may not be directly related to the Slavic or Eastern European Studies, I would still recommend it to my readers due to its well balanced account. I believe that the remnants of the Cold War still remain in our global village. Many thanks. Liladhar

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, US

Self-description:
"Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il
Regime. [2008]. Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
The author seeks to assist planners and decisionmakers in thinking
about and preparing for possible future contingencies concerning
North Korea. He does not dwell on war or conflict scenarios involving
North Korea because military planners have already focused
considerable effort and attention on these. It is entirely possible
that the fate of the country as a political, territorial, and
juridical entity is intimately bound up with the fate of the Kim Jong
Il regime, but one should not assume this to be so. In other words,
the collapse of the Kim regime may not lead to the collapse of North
Korea as a state. Moreover, one should not assume that even if the
regime collapse is followed by state collapse that these events would
inexorably lead to Korean unification."

[A PDF document, approx. 337KB strong - ed.]

URL http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=844

Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature

GL11 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
          Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature
     Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA on 14-15 December 2009

               "The Grey Mosaic, Piecing It All Together"
              http://www.textrelease.com/gl11program.html   


C O N T E N T S:

DAY ONE

09:00-10:20 OPENING SESSION

Chair, Roberta Shaffer, Federal Library and Information Center Committee, FLICC/FEDLINK, United States

Keynote Address, Peter R. Young, Chief Asian Division, Library of Congress, United States

Opening Paper, The Grey System for Monitoring Self-Funded Research / Aleksandr Starovoitov, CITIS; Aleksandr Bastrykin , Yuri Bogdanov, and Leonid Pavlov, VNTIC, Russia

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                                                                                                                                11:00-12:30

SESSION ONE, IMPACT OF GREY LITERATURE ON NET CITIZENS

Chair, Michelle Springer, Office of Strategic Initiatives; Library of Congress, United States

Have You Seen the Wheel?: The Circulation of Grey Literature about Domestic Violence among Members of an Online Survivor Group / Maria E. Gonzalez, Wayne State University, United States

Raising Awareness of Grey Literature in an Academic Community Using the Cognitive Behavioral Theory / Yongtao Lin, Tom Baker Cancer Centre and Marcus Vaska, Health Sciences Library, University of Calgary, Canada

Using Secondary Grey Literature Research in Open Source Analysis: Case Study: The Jordan Property Regime / June Crowe and Bonnie C. Carroll, Information International Associates, Inc., United States

The Secrecy of Grey Unveiled: Grey literature and the freedom of information Cees de Blaaij, Library of Zeeland, The Netherlands

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                                                                                                                                13:30-15:00

SESSION TWO, USES AND APPLICATIONS OF SUBJECT BASED GREY LITERATURE

Chair, Janice Kaplan, New York Academy of Medicine, NYAM, United States

Understanding the Use and Influence of Publications of Intergovernmental Environmental Organizations: Evidence from an Analysis of Internal Sources / Gregory R.G. Hutton, Bertrum H. MacDonald, and Peter G. Wells, Dalhousie University, Canada

Relationship between and the subject of medical research and the causes of mortality and morbidity: Can Grey help? / Primož Južnič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

New Shades of Grey: The Emergence of E-Science, Scientific Data and Challenges for Research Libraries / Julia Gelfand, University of California, Irvine Libraries, United States

Glimpses of Veterinary Grey Literature:  Piecing Together Bibliometric Data for a Clearer Image / Robin Sewell, Ana Ugaz, Taryn Resnick, Esther Carrigan and Joe Jaros,  Texas A&M University, United States

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                                                                                                                                15:40-16:40
                                                                                                                                                                                   
INTRODUCTIONS TO POSTER PRESENTATIONS                                      

Chair, Peggy Clifton, Science, Technology and Business Division; Library of Congress, United States
                                       
Opening Poster, Debbie L. Rabina, "GreyNet Award Recipient 2009" Pratt Institute, United States

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DAY TWO
                                                                                                                                08:45-10:00

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Alphabetical Order)

Veterinary Grey Literature:  Still Grey When Viewed in a New Light? / Diane A. Fagen, American Veterinary Medical Association, United States

Dissemination of R&D Results Information by JAEA Library / Kiyoshi Ikeda, Mayuki Gonda, Takashi Nozawa, Keizo Itabashi, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, JAEA; Naomi Ebisawa, Total Support Systems Corporation, TOSS (Japan)

Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks; A Project to Identify Indexing Gaps / Lura E. Joseph, University of Illinois, United States

Grey Literature And Computational Linguistics: From Paper To Net / Claudia Marzi, Gabriella Pardelli, Manuela Sassi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale,  CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

System of Grey Literature in the Czech Republic / Petra Pejsova, State Technical Library, Czech Republic

Grey Literature Repositories: Life Blood of the Scholarly Community / Kamani Perera, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka; Dinesh Chandra, Ministry of Defence, India

Copyright licenses and their impact on access to grey materials / Debbie L. Rabina, Pratt Institute, United States

Life-Saving Grey Literature: An Analysis of Mandatory, Police-Distributed Domestic Violence Information Resources / Lynn Westbrook, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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                                                                                                                                10:30-12:00

SESSION THREE – GREY LITERATURE REPOSITORIES
 
Chair, Dr. Lawrence Marcus, Library of Congress, LC, United States

Documenting an Environmental Disaster: The River Valley Collection at Marion Public Library / Ian Fairclough, George Mason University and Dawn McCleery, Marion Public Library, United States

Mosaic: Shades of Grey / Keith G. Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom and Anne Asserson, University of Bergen, Norway

Are legal texts Grey Literature? Toward an understanding of GL that invites the preservation of authentic and genuine originals / Michael Lines, University of Victoria, Canada

A Multi-Institutional Approach to Technical Report Literature: Development of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) / Maliaca Oxnam, University of Arizona Libraries, United States

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                                                                                                                                13:00-14:30
                                                                                                                                                                                    
SESSION FOUR – OPEN ACCESS TO GREY RESOURCES
                                     
Chair, Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine, NLM, United States

Digitizing Grey Matter from the Antarctic Bibliography Collection / Tina Gheen and Sue Olmsted, National Science Foundation Library, NSF, United States

The impact of the development of institutional repositories on "Kiyo" or institutional research journals in Japan / Hiroya Takeuchi and Syun Tutiya, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, Japan

Usage of grey literature in open archives: state of the art and empirical results / Joachim Schöpfel and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, University of Lille 3; Hélène Prost, INIST-CNRS, France

From CNR Annual report to an Institutional repository: Which successful strategies? / Rosa Di Cesare, Daniela Luzi, Roberta Ruggieri, National Research Council, Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, Italy

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                                                                                                                                14:45-15:30
                                                                                                                                                                                    
CLOSING SESSION - REPORTS FROM CHAIRPERSONS, CONFERENCE HANDOFF, FAREWELL
                               
Chair, Roberta Shaffer, FLICC/FEDLINK, United States and Dominic Farace, Grey Literature Network Service, GreyNet, Netherlands


GL11 Program and Conference Bureau
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T/F +31-(0)20 331 2420
Email: conference@textrelease.com
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Call for Papers at UCLA: Futurism: The Invention of a Primordial Tomorrow

TRADITION + LEGACY

University of California at Los Angeles, October 9^th and 10^th 2009

In 1909 on the front page of Le Figaro Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the "Founding Manifesto" of Futurism, thus inciting the age of the European avant-garde. The consequences of a Futurist perspective were to be felt throughout the European cultural landscape, however Futurism's greatest contribution, arguably, (being the first avant-garde movement) was that of defining the scope, the means and the modalities of the avant-garde. As part of this definition, Futurists struggled with establishing genealogies and selecting posterity. On the one hand, Futurism rejected the literary tradition that preceded it, only sparing select cultural references; and on the other, Futurism addressed an audience not yet born, that the Futurists helped to create.

This conference intends to explore the relationship of Futurism with the traditional literary canon while also investigating the strategies Futurists employed to create a proper audience for a revolutionary approach to art. What authors and artists did Futurism salvage from the "ruins of Rome and Athens"? Who were Futurism's unacknowledged predecessors? What kind of audiences did Futurism envision in the creation of a 'new' art? Are we now in a better position to appreciate the aesthetic pursuit of the Futurists? What does the contemporary art world owe to the Futurist legacy?

Possible topics:

Futurism and Its Ancestors: Tradition

• Futurism and the Classics
  
• Futurism and the Italian Canon
  
• Futurism and Africa
  
• Futurism and Stereotypes (Forgotten Futurist Practitioners)
  
• Futurism and Fascism
  

Futurism and Its Audiences: Legacy

• Futurism and Popular Culture
  
• Futurism and the other Avant-garde Movements
  
• Futurism and the Neo-Avant-garde
  
• Futurism and Stereotypes (Forgotten Futurist Audiences)
  
• Futurism and Fascism
  

If chosen, participants will have the opportunity to publish full-length versions of their papers in a special edition of the UCLA Department of Italian's graduate student journal CARTE ITALIANE, which
will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2010.

Please submit a 1 to 2 page abstract for consideration to itagrad.conference@gmail.com by July 20, 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS – Journal of NCOLCTL

 

The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages

(NCOLCTL) is soliciting articles for publication. As the official journal of the Council, the journal serves the professional interests of teachers, researchers, and administrators of less commonly taught languages in all settings and all levels of instruction. The Journal is refereed and published once a year.

Our general editorial focus is on policy, education, programs, advocacy, and research in the field of less commonly taught languages (all foreign languages except English, French, German, and Spanish). The envisaged segmentation of the Journal is as follows:

a. Methodology and Technology,

b. Academia,

c. Beyond Academia,

d. Social Embeddedness

The first section shall include papers focusing on broader theoretical and technological issues in all fields of less commonly taught languages. The second section will encompass reports about research and teaching in academia, at both K-12 and collegiate levels. The third section shall comprise papers addressing research and teaching in government and industry.

Finally, the fourth section will address the issues of a broader social environment, ranging from heritage communities to advancing LCTLs in federal initiatives and legislation.

In preparing the manuscript, please use the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), see http://www.apa.org/journals/authors/guide.pdf. Manuscripts should be a maximum of 25 pages (excluding references, charts, notes, etc.) and preferably submitted electronically via email attachment. Double-space the manuscript throughout, including notes, references, and tables, using 12-point font with a 1.5 inch left margin. The manuscript should be accompanied by a 150 word (or less) abstract and a cover sheet containing the manuscript title, name, address, office and home telephone numbers, fax number, email address, and full names and institutions of each author.

Because the manuscript will be blind reviewed, identifying information should be on the cover sheet only, and not appear in the manuscript.

While submissions are welcome at any point, only papers received by October 31, 2009 will be guaranteed consideration for the 2010 issue of the Journal.

 

ncolctl@mailplus.wisc.edu

NCOLCTL

4231 Humanities Building

455 N. Park Street

Madison, WI 53706

 

Tel: 608-265-7903; FAX 608 265 7904.

 

Source:

Danko Sipka

Editor,Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages http://www.councilnet.org/jnclctl/index.htm

Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics School of International Letters and Cultures Arizona State University

Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka

Mail: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

 

LECTURES- On Ethnography/Anthropology and on Secularism in Post-Soviet Caucasus

 

Within the framework of public lectures organized by the Center for Social Sciences at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Professor John Schoeberlein Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus under the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (USA), will deliver two public lectures:

1) "Studying Caucasian Culture and Society through the Lenses of

Ethnography (in the Local Tradition) and Anthropology (in the Western

Tradition)" Wednesday, May 20, 2009 17.00 pm

 

2) "Considering Secularism in Post-Communist Caucasian Societies"

Thursday, May 21, 200916.00 pm

 

Attendance is free for all interested persons.

Working language is English.

Location: The Center for Social Sciences, at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State Unversity, II building. 3 Chavchavadze Avenue, IV floor, Room # 139.

 

Source:

Mako (Manana) Mikaberidze

Administrative Director

Center for Social Sciences

3 Chavchavadze Ave.

TSU II building, IV floor

Tbilisi 0128 Georgia

Tel.: (+995 32) 252781; 102781

Fax: (+995 32) 291334

mmikaberidze@ucss.ge

mako.mikaberidze@gmail.com

www.ucss.ge

 

In Memoriam: Oleg Iankovskii

20.05.2009 Олег Янковский Утром 20 мая 2009 года в Москве на 66-м году жизни скончался народный артист Советского Союза Олег Янковский. Он долго страдал от онкологического заболевания. Читать дальше

Summer 2009 Slavic Language Program at the University of Chicago

* Courses in Russian at the first-year and second-year levels

* Two 3-week courses in simultaneous interpretation in Russian<- >English (open to students at multiple levels)

* All courses run 6 weeks, June 22-July 31, 2009

* the 6 week course is equivalent to one year (3 quarters) of study in the University of Chicago program during the academic year

* courses will be supplemented by weekly lunches from area Slavic restaurants and possible field trips to Russian, Czech, Polish, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian restaurants, shops, etc. in Chicago

 

Program descriptions are available at:

http://languages.uchicago.edu/summerslavic and registration and tuition details are available at:

http://summer.uchicago.edu

Social Science Research Council Job: Eurasia Program Officer/Director

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), a not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of social science research and scholarship, invites applications for a Program Officer/Director to the Eurasia Program. The Eurasia program works to develop new directions for scholarship on this region, and to provide opportunities for international networking and collaborative research.  Eurasia Program Title VIII-funded program activities are designed to support and strengthen the field of Eurasian studies. For more information about the Eurasia Program, visit our website: http://programs.ssrc.org/eurasia/ .  Please note, the hiring of an individual for this position is conditional upon the availability of full project funding.

The Program Officer/Director will supervise the program and its small team of dedicated professionals, and will be responsible for the overall management of the Eurasia Program, particularly the Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia. S/he will contribute to all aspects of strategic planning and will help facilitate communications and network-building among faculty, researchers, graduate students and institutions in both the United States and in the countries of Eurasia.  The Officer/Director will be expected to identify linkages and synergies between past and current Eurasia Program activities and other Council programming helping to expand Eurasia Program networks. The Officer/Director will have the opportunity to aid in facilitating outreach between academic and policy communities, while continuing to fundraise, develop proposals and liaise with program donors. 

The best qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in the Social Sciences, expertise in at least one and preferably two countries of Eurasia through research, teaching or organizational work, as well as experience in planning and implementing scholarly events and related activities. Applicants must have excellent speaking and writing skills in English, in addition to high level proficiency in Russian and/or at least one additional language of Eurasia. knowledge and experience administering federal grants; familiarity with the grants.gov system and Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union) is preferred. 

This position will require energy, enthusiasm, strong interpersonal and organizational skills and the ability to travel domestically and internationally. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively, to manage multiple priorities and projects effectively, and to lead and supervise staff teams. 

Annual salary will be commensurate with experience.  Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; gym reimbursement; outstanding pension plan and tax savings programs; generous vacation and sick leave; and more.   Provisions are made for professional staff to continue their development as professional social scientists while at the Council. 

 Applications will be accepted through June, 2009.  Ideally, the position will be filled by late summer/ early fall 2009.

 To apply, candidates must send a detailed letter of application, curriculum vitae and three references.  Please also submit copies of two professional, published writing samples.

 E-MAIL:  Applications@ssrc.org

MAIL:                 Human Resources - Eurasia Program Director Search

Social Science Research Council

One Pierrepont Plaza, 15^th Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11201      

The Social Science Research Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Alisha Kirchoff

Eurasia Program Coordinator

Social Science Research Council 

One Pierrepont Plaza | 15th  Floor |

Brooklyn, NY 11201 | www.ssrc.org |

Tel: (212) 377-2700 | Fax: (212) 377-2727 | kirchoff@ssrc.org | Direct line: (718) 517-3663

 
 

 

Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceTM Organization

Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceTM Organization

 

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA --- Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission. Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global communities who manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content.

 

The joined organization, named "DuraSpace," will sustain and grow its flagship repository platforms - Fedora and DSpace. DuraSpace will also expand its portfolio by offering new technologies and services that respond to the dynamic environment of the Web and to new requirements from existing and future users. DuraSpace will focus on supporting existing communities and will also engage a larger and more diverse group of stakeholders in support of its not-for-profit mission. The organization will be led by an executive team consisting of Sandy Payette (Chief Executive Officer), Michele Kimpton (Chief Business Officer), and Brad McLean (Chief Technology Officer) and will operate out of offices in Ithaca, NY and Cambridge, MA.

 

"This is a great development," said Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). "It will focus resources and talent in a way that should really accelerate progress in areas critical to the research, education, and cultural memory communities. The new emphasis on distributed reliable storage infrastructure services and their integration with repositories is particularly timely. "

 

Together Fedora and DSpace make up the largest market share of open repositories worldwide, serving over 700 institutions. These include organizations committed to the use of open source software solutions for the dissemination and preservation of academic, scientific, and cultural digital content.

 

"The joining of DSpace and Fedora Commons is a watershed event for libraries, specifically, and higher education, more generally," said James Hilton, CIO of the University of Virginia. "Separately, these two organizations operated with similar missions and a shared commitment to developing and supporting open technologies. By bringing together the technical, financial, and community-based resources of the two organizations, their communities gain a robust organization focused on solving the many challenges involved in storing, curating, and preserving digital data and scholarship," he said.

 

New Products

 

DuraSpace will continue to support its existing software platforms, DSpace and Fedora, as well as expand its offerings to support the needs of global information communities. The first new technology to emerge will be a Web-based service named "DuraCloud." DuraCloud is a hosted service that takes advantage of the cost efficiencies of cloud storage and cloud computing, while adding value to help ensure longevity and re-use of digital content. The DuraSpace organization is developing partnerships with commercial cloud providers who offer both storage and computing capabilities.

 

The DuraCloud service will be run by the DuraSpace organization. Its target audiences are organizations responsible for digital preservation and groups creating shared spaces for access and re-use of digital content. DuraCloud will be accessible directly as a Web service and also via plug-ins to digital repositories including Fedora and DSpace. The software developed to support the DuraCloud service will be made available as open source. An early release of DuraCloud will be available for selected pilot partners in Fall 2009.

 

Key Benefits of the DuraSpace Organization

 

DuraSpace will support both DSpace and Fedora by working closely with both communities and, when possible, develop synergistic technologies, services, and programs that increase interoperability of the two platforms. DuraSpace will also support other open source software projects including the Mulgara semantic store, a scalable RDF database.

 

DuraSpace will pursue a mission that extends beyond these existing software platforms. This broader mission will include developing open technologies and services for the communities that have developed around these two platforms. The organization will also reach out to new communities who manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content.

 

DuraSpace will amplify the value of each individual organization, enabling it to sustain a larger community. With both organizations working in unison, there can be significant economies of scale, synergies in developing open technologies and services, and a strong position for long-term sustainability.

 

Learn More about DuraSpace

 

DuraSpace will be represented at the Fourth Annual International

Conference on Open Repositories (http://openrepositories.org/).

Please check the schedule and visit the Fedora Commons and DSpace information tables at the conference to learn more.

 

More information is available at the DuraSpace website (http://duraspace.org/ ), including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

 

About Fedora Commons

Fedora Commons (http://fedora-commons.org/) was established in 2007 as a not-for-profit organization and the home of the Fedora repository software and related open source projects. Fedora is a robust, integrated, repository system that enables storage, access and management for virtually any kind of digital content. The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) was originally designed by Sandy Payette and colleagues at Cornell University and was established as an open source project in 2001 by Cornell and the University of Virginia. Fedora has a large international user community and is installed worldwide at universities, libraries, research institutions, cultural organizations, and corporations. For more information contact Thornton Staples, Director of Community Outreach and Alliances at tstaples@fedora-commons.org or Chris Wilper, Technical Lead at cwilper@fedora-commons.org. Also see: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/KINB

 

About DSpace Foundation

The DSpace Foundation (http://dspace.org/) was formed in 2007 to support the growing global community of institutions using DSpace opensource software to manage scholarly works in a digital repository.

DSpace was jointly developed in 2002 by Hewlett-Packard and the MIT Libraries. Today, there are over more than 500 organizations worldwide using the software to manage, preserve, and share their scholarly output. To learn more about DSpace and its community of users visit www.dspace.org or contact Valorie Hollister, Community Outreach Manager at val@dspace.org.

 

Announcement from “Cosmopolitan” Summer Language Camp

This is the last call for volunteers to come and participate in the Summer Language Camp that our Educational Center "Cosmopolitan" http://cosmo-nsk.com/ runs in delightful countryside just outside Novosibirsk, the administrative capital of Siberia and the center of Russia. We have at least one volunteer vacancy at each of the four two-week sessions of the camp this summer and we would like to invite those of your students and colleagues who have just finalized their summer plans and schedules and will have at least two weeks during the summer to come and join our team.

Being comprehensive and unique, and offering very competitive prices, our program is an attractive option for your students whom we invite to participate as volunteer teachers of their language and as creativity workshop coordinators for the Russian children at the camp.
Our program is unique in bringing volunteer teachers and international students from all over the world to Siberia to live, work and study in a residential setting with Russian students and teachers. This structured residential system seeks to develop language, social, communicative, educational, cultural and health-promoting skills to all participants in an interesting way according to age and ability. The program is a great chance to learn Russian and get a first-hand experience of the Russian culture and lifestyle.

We have been running these programs for fourteen years already. Volunteer teachers and international students from the UK, the USA, Canada, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ecuador will be participating in our camp program this summer. You are invited to join our international team. It is a fact that many students and teachers return to the program year after year as a testament to the success of the program.

* Have you always wanted to add some meaning to an overseas adventure?
* Do you want a new, challenging experience?
* Do you like to meet people from other countries and get your energy from working towards a goal as part of a team?
* Are you willing to gain experience, improve communication abilities, and develop skills that will help in your future employment?
* Have you ever daydreamed about gaining insight into the Russian culture and life in a way no traveler could?

If 'yes' is the answer, then our program is the best way for you to spend your summer vacation!

For more information on the program and to read about our former =
participants' experiences, please visit our website =
http://cosmo-nsk.com/
Please contact Natalia Bodrova cosmopolitan@rinet.su

or
cosmoschool2@mail.ru with any questions or application inquiries.

Source:

Natalia Bodrova,
Director of the Educational Center "Cosmopolitan",
Novosibirsk, Russia
cosmopolitan@rinet.su
http://cosmo-nsk.com/

Temporary Lecturer in Russian. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY. Fall, 2009.

One semester replacement position.

 

Non tenure-track. Teaching Beginning, Intermediate and Third Year Russian language courses.

Required:

M.A., native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English, proven excellence in undergraduate teaching, experience in Russia.

Applications reviewed immediately and accepted until the position is filled. Ph. D. candidates and ABD's welcome to apply. Please send cover letter, CV, transcripts and three letters of reference to Dr. Andrew Wisely, 1 Bear Place, Box #97391, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7391. Baylor is a Baptist University affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, Baylor encourages minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities to apply.

An announcement from DigitalPreservationEurope

As many of you will know DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) are committed to making digital preservation materials available to the widest possible audience and to breaking down barriers to access. The release of a new series of short animations introducing and explaining digital preservation problems and solutions for the general public marks an important step reaching this goal.

 

We are delighted to announce that the first animation is now ready for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBa6Oam7-w

 

We believe these cartoons encapsulate complex digital preservation issues and problems and explain them in a funny and easy to follow plot. Please fee free to make use of these animations as part of your own work to raise awareness and understanding about digital preservation.

 

Future animations will be released on our You Tube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreserve

 

To learn more about DPE or to access our suite of preservation resources and tools, please go to http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.org.

 

Source:

Mrs Emily Nimmo

HATII Preservation Resources Officer

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), George Service House,

11 University Gardens,

University of Glasgow,

Glasgow G12 8QJ,

Scotland

Tel: +44(0)141 330 3720

Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788

http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu

In Memoriam: Скончался народный артист СССР Федор Шмаков

2.05.2009 Скончался народный артист СССР Федор Шмаков Федор Шмаков известен, в частности, исполнением роли В.И.Ленина в театральных постановках, сыграл около 30 ролей в кино. В 1959 году снялся в роли Андрея Разметнова в художественном фильме "Поднятая... Читать дальше