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Call for Participation: DiversiWeb2011 -- First International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web
by Dimple Patel 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

******** Apologies for multiple postings *********** Please forward to interested parties and relevant listservs *********************************************************** Dear Colleagues We welcome your participation to the WWW2011 DiversiWeb Workshop. Kindly see below for details. Best Regards -- Devika Madalli, DRTC/ISIBC Co-Chair, DiversiWeb 2011 *************************************************************** ******** Call for Participation for DiversiWeb 2011 *********** *************************************************************** First International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web Workshop at WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28 or 29 (TBD), 2011 Supported by the EU FP7 projects RENDER and Living Knowledge == Organization committee == * Elena Simperl, AIFB, KIT, Germany * Devika P. Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India * Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, KIT, Germany * Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich, Switzerland Website: ========= http://render-project.eu/diversiweb-2011/ Almost 20 years after its introduction, the Web provides a platform for the publication, use and exchange of information, at planetary scale, on virtually every topic, and representing an amazing diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mindsets and backgrounds. The success of the Web can be attributed to several factors, most notably to its principled scalable design, but also to a number of subsequent ICT developments such as smart user-generated content, mobile devices, and most recently cloud computing. The first two of these have dramatically lowered the last barriers of entry when it comes to producing and consuming information online, leading to an unprecedented growth and mass collaboration. They are responsible for hundreds of millions of users all over the globe creating high-quality encyclopedias, publishing Terabytes of multimedia content, contributing to world-class software, and lively taking part in defining the agenda of many aspects of our society by raising their voices, and publicly expressing and sharing their ideas, viewpoints, and resources. The other side of the coin in this unique success story is, nevertheless, the great challenges associated with managing the sheer amounts of information continuously being published online, whilst allowing for purposeful use, and leveraging the diversity inherently unfolding through global-scale collaboration. In this context, diversity includes different opinions, sentiments, preferences, or worldviews that are reflected in the way information is expressed on the Web. These challenges are still to be solved at many levels, from the infrastructure to store and access the information, through the methods and techniques to make sense out of it, to the paradigms underlying the processes of Web-based information provision and consumption. As an example, when searching for blog posts, state-of-the-art technology – be that popularity-based algorithms, recommendation engines or collaborative filters – tends to return either the most popular posts, or those which correspond with a personal profile and therefore with the known opinions and tastes of the reader. Alternative points of view, and new unexpected content, are not taken into account as they are not highly ranked, and posts expressing different opinions are sometimes even discarded. This behavior has particularly negative consequences when dealing with information that is expected and intended to be subject to diverse opinion – as is the case with news reports, ratings of products or media content, customer reviews, or any other type of subjective assessment. The same negative effects apply in a community-driven environment that is designed for collaboration – the most obvious example here being Wikipedia and the blogosphere. The information diversity exposed in such an environment, impressive both with respect to scale and the richness of opinions and viewpoints expressed, cannot be handled without adequate computer support in an economically feasible manner. In the long run, maintaining the current state-of-affairs will change the ways and the extent to which people are informed (or not) on a particular topic, tremendously influencing how they look into that topic, what they find about it and what they think about it. On top of all this, it is meanwhile acknowledged that the current state of affairs hampers true collaboration. Wikipedia is a tremendous success, but it is also a largely meritocratic system with a decreasing number of active contributors, whereas the blogosphere has to deal with the limited attention of the blog authors. What is needed are novel concepts, methods and tools that allow humans and machines to leverage the huge amounts of information created by a community, based on interaction models that support expressing, communicating and reasoning about divergent models simultaneously. This would not only enhance true collaboration, but would also significantly improve various aspects of the information management life cycle, thus addressing information overload in sectors which rely on opinions-driven information sources and mass participation – news, ratings, reviews, and social and information sharing portals of any kind. == Goal of the workshop == The overall aim of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their ideas related to the challenges posed by diversity on the Web. We aim to address a wide array of interdisciplinary questions, which need to be tackled in order to preserve the fragile balance between a world that is continually converging and growing together, the rich diversity of the global society, and the dangers of fragmentation and splintering. This includes but is not limited to questions such as ‘How to model diversity?’, ‘How to discover bias and opinion in blog posts, tweets, forum items, wiki edits, etc.?’, ‘How to rank, aggregate, summarize, and exploit information in a diversity-aware manner?’, ‘What are the applications of diversity-rich information sources?’, ‘How can we use diversity as an asset instead of regarding it as a barrier?’. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: ======================================================= * Risks and advantages of diversity and diversification on the Web * Facets of knowledge diversity and conceptual and formal models for representing and understanding diversity * Discovery and mining of corpora for diversity-related information * Use of Natural Language Processing techniques for diversity mining * Classifying Web 2.0 content items such as blog posts, videos, tweets, and wiki-edits by their biases * Usage and benefits of diversity in the corporate context, e.g. in order to understand feedback and communication with the customer * Enabling or improving communication and collaboration over barriers induced by diversity * Extensions to Web applications taking diversity into account * Exposing and explaining diversity to end users * User experiences avoiding the radicalization of groups by exposing them to alternatives * User interfaces allowing the explicit annotation of content with diversity markers * Studies on the acceptance by end-users of diversified applications. == Organization committee == * Elena Simperl, AIFB, KIT, Germany * Devika P. Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India * Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, KIT, Germany * Enrique Alfonseca, Google Zurich, Switzerland Contact us at <diversiweb(a)lists.kit.edu> -- Dr.Devika P. Madalli Associate Professor Documentation Research and Training Center (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059 Karnataka, INDIA Phone: +91-80-28483002 /3/4/5/6 Extsn 497 or 490 Fax:+91-80-28482711 Email: devika(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Missed ICLAM 2011? View ppts of renowned speakers in Slideshare!
by nandini dutta 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Dear Friends, For all those who could not and also those who could attend the international conference ICLAM 2011, here is an opportunity ! Relive the excitement of all the three-days of ICLAM 2011 conference from February 15 to 17, 2011 at the India International Centre, New Delhi through the Slideshare and Flickr. We have begun uploading selective presentations of renowned national and international speakers to the Slideshare. Please refer to : http://www.slideshare.net/event/international-conference-on-the-convergence… Keep watching, more ppts will be added .....Also check for photos in Flickr ! A golden chance to witness the truly historical event -- ICLAM 2011 was the first international conference in India that promoted the convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums ! We believe in resource sharing. Happy viewing ! Nandini Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Conversion of Pounds and Dollars
by murulieps＠excelindia.com 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Dear Professionals, Please help me with the conversion of Dollars and Pounds into Indian Rupees. In different websites it shows different values. If you provide me with some website addresses that is reliable and gives the updated information that would be a great help. Thanking your in anticipation. Muruli Librarian Excel Public School Mysore 97421 33755 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ASIS&T Bulletin February/March
by Dabas Bharat K 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

-- On Thu, 3/3/11, ramesh e <librarymrcet(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: ramesh e <librarymrcet(a)gmail.com> Subject: [MLOSC.12727] ASIS&T Bulletin February/March To: iala(a)googlegroups.com Cc: mlosc(a)googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:00 PM For more information, please visit the bulletin February/March of ASIS&T. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-11/Bulletin_FebMar11_Final.pdf Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information. ASIS&T counts among its membership some 4,000 information specialists from such fields as computer science, linguistics, management, librarianship, engineering, law, medicine, chemistry, and education; individuals who share a common interest in improving the ways society stores, retrieves, analyzes, manages, archives and disseminates information, coming together for mutual benefit. Purpose The Society seeks to stimulate participation and interaction among its members by affording them an environment for substantive professional exchange. It encourages and supports personal and professional growth through opportunities for members to extend their knowledge and skills, develop and use professional networks, pursue career development goals and assume leadership roles in the Society and in the information community. ASIS&T increases the influence of information professionals among decision-makers by focusing attention on the importance of information as a vital resource in a high-technology age and promotes informed policy on national and international information issues by contributing to the formation of those policies. It supports the advancement of the state-of-the art and practice by taking a leadership position in the advocacy of research and development in basic and applied information science. http://www.asis.org/about.html Regards, ELAGANDULA RAMESH Librarian, www.mrcet.ac.in ASIS&T Info-Share 2011 membership awardee 9951365011 Bharat Kumar Assistant Librarian Management Development Institute Gurgaon - 122007, Haryana, India Phone No - (M) +91-9968456404 (O) +91-124-4560390 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Computerization of Library
by murulieps＠excelindia.com 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Dear Professionals, As I am taking initiative to computerize my library I am in need of information about how to get in touch with the library software vendor and other issues related to training and follow up. However, I am not aware of any such institutions/agencies that prvode service regard to the same. Alternatively, I have come accross a number of open source softwares such as KOHA, GREEN STONE etc. But I am finding it difficult to download the software and proceed further process as I am not technically sound enough. How do I go ahead with it? Can a freely available software be helpful to my situation? Please advice and educate me on the same. If you provide contact information of such Agencies which are locally available (Bangalore/Mysore), that would be a great help. I look forward with anticipation. Muruli Librarian Excel Public School Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Now, NET certificates at your fingertips
by Irshad Ahmed 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Dear professionals Good news for students opting for NET exam. Now you need not to wait for NET certificates for months. click on the link below to read more http://www.deccanherald.com/content/142901/now-net-certificates-your-finger… Irshad Ahmed Information Assitant Deccan Herald Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian scientist is Top1 in in the field of Microbiology
by srinivas rao 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Indian scientist is Top1 in in the field of Microbiology thomson Reuters ranked Dr. G. Balakrish Nair as a highly cited author in the field of cholera. He has contributed to 137 papers that have received 2,197 citations in the past decade, which ranks him at #1 by number of papers and #3 by total cites. He is also in the top 1% of scientists in the field of Microbiology in Essential Science IndicatorsSM Source:-http://sciencewatch.com/ana/st/cholera/11marSTcholNair/ Srinivasa Rao Ganta Librarian Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Questio Papers of Engineering mechanics Pune Univ.
by Mohan Kulkarni 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

One of our faculty has asked for Question papers of subject Engineering Mechanics of April 2010, December 2010, December 2009. All First Year Engineering Pune University. If possible please scan those papers and mail me. In Nashik this Faculty has hunted for a long time but unable to get it. He requested to get it from somewhere. I will be thankful if somebody will send me those papers. Thank you. -- From- Mohan Kulkarni kulkarnimohan(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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world book day and e-reading
by jasim s 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

details of WBD and e-reading can be had from http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/03/world-book-day-teenagers <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/03/world-book-day-teenagers>about WBD http://www.worldbookday.com/about_world_book_day.asp -- Jasimudeen.s MG University Library Kottayam *Life is like a book:what matter is how good it is ,not how long it is" * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for information
by Dr.D.P Prathap 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

dear colleagues please let me know whether SCI of Thompson is the only source in the world for citation analysis or any other similar source available thanking you yours sincerely T.Shanmuganathan Technical officer (Library) Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore, m:99944-61172 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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