Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
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Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hello! Hola!
I am Mayo Fuster and I am part of the Free culture and access to knowledge forum. Today we are launching and collecting endorsements of a Declaration and how-to manual on new models of sustainability of culture and knowledge in the digital era. It is based on several research results on the area, plus have a quite extended bibliography on the topic. It also build upon Wikipedia experience. So, I hope it is of interest of people in the e-list.
Please help to spread. To endorse the declaration write to: info(a)fcforum.net or reply back to me for any further information or doubt.
Thank you in advance. Have a nice day! Mayo
(English, Spanish, Catalan)
Launching: Declaration and how-to manual on new models of sustainability of culture and knowledge in the digital era.
Over 40 international organizations endorse the Declaration and how-to manual on new models of sustainability in the digital era that are released today by the Free/Libre Culture Forum (FCForum).
Declaration and how to manual on new models of sustainability in the digital era: http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity
Each year, the FCForum (http://2010.fcforum.net) brings together key organization and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture and knowledge. It responds to the need for an international arena to coordinate a global framework for action to defend and expand the sphere in which human creativity and knowledge can prosper freely and sustainable. As civil society, it is our responsibility to oppose practices that plunder the common heritage and to block its future development.
The Declaration and How-to manual of new models of sustainability in the digital era that we are releasing today includes a review of the current situation of diverse sectors of creativity (music, cinema, digital infrastructure, writing content and online repositories resulting of open collaboration online, among others), list several emerging models and sources of sustainability, and, importantly, argue our conviction that:
Copyright, as we currently know it, is counterproductive, and the restructuring of existing business models is inevitable and imperative; attempts by some entities and corporations to profit through the creation of monopolies, often with the active connivance of government, should be brought to a stop. The sharing and exchange of ideas is of vital importance to culture, knowledge and democracy, and we must work towards maximizing governmental and institutional initiatives that understand and support them. Last but not least, it is necessary and important that people is compensated for their socially valuable creative work. Furthermore, digital commons provided by civic society actors and resulting from citizens collaboration are increasing in importance and accordingly have to gain visibility and social recognition.
The Declaration and How-to manual of new models of sustainability in the digital era present some of the many existing and possible models. We should be encouraging and promoting further development and recognition of them.
We invite citizens, policy reformers and institutions to take the content of this practical proposal into account and to use its release as an opportunity to discuss our future together. We aim this resource to be useful for initiatives that are searching to find sustainable solutions to their promotion of access and creativity of culture and knowledge.
We will continue to collect signatures, endorsements and contributions. With them we will be developing new versions, as new requirements and new solutions appear.
Read, share, spread and participate!
Free/Libre Culture Forum (FCForum): http://fcforum.net
To endorse the declaration write to: info(a)fcforum.net
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Declaración y Manual sobre modelos sostenibles para la creatividad en la cultura y el conocimiento en la era digital
El Foro de cultura libre (FCForum) (http://2010.fcforum.net/) lanza hoy La Declaración y el “Manual” sobre modelos sostenibles para la creatividad en la era digital: http://fcforum.net/es/sustainable-models-for-creativity
Hay muchos modelos que ya están operando o que son posibles. Este documento examina algunos de ellos y pide que se aliente y promueva su desarrollo. Lo que viene a demostrar es que soluciones prácticas las hay. Cosa bien distinta es que no interesen a políticos a sueldo de multinacionales y de intereses particulares. #NoLesVotes.
El FCForum es una plataforma internacional que reúne cada año a organizaciones clave y voces activas en el ámbito de la cultura y el conocimiento libre para crear y coordinar un marco global de acción. El texto que se publica hoy es el resultado del encuentro de 150 organizaciones en Octubre de 2010 en Barcelona (http://2010.fcforum.net/). El proceso de trabajo y consenso ha sido facilitado por La-EX.net (exEXGAE), Mayo Fuster Morell, y YProductions. La declaración y el manual contienen un análisis de cada sector (música, cine, textos colaborativos online, infraestructura digital, entre otros) y la descripción detallada de los nuevos fuentes y modelos operantes y posibles. Así mismo, plasma nuestras convicciones compartidas, entre ellas:
Que el modelo actual de copyright es contraproducente y la reconversión del sector cultural es inevitable y necesaria; hay que acabar con los monopolios creados por algunas entidades y corporaciones para su propio beneficio, en muchos casos con la complicidad activa de gobiernos. Compartir e intercambiar ideas tiene una importancia central para la cultura, el conocimiento y la democracia, y debemos ampliar los esfuerzos institucionales y las iniciativas de la sociedad civil que los apoyan y promueven. Es necesario e importante que las personas que al compartir y colaborar crean valor sean compensadas por estas contribuciones valiosas para la sociedad. El rol de la sociedad civil en tanto que proveedora de bienes comunes digitales merece mayor reconocimiento y apoyo institucional.
La declaración también alerta de que en los pasillos de ministerios y grandes compañías del sector de la telecomunicación están preparando un acuerdo para ampliar el canon digital a la propia conexión a internet. Propuesta que consideramos absolutamente inaceptable en las condiciones actuales y será rechazado por la sociedad civil.
El documento, que sigue recogiendo adhesiones, se publica firmado por más de 40 organizaciones y especialistas nacionales e internacionales tales como Electronic Frontair Foundation, P2P Foundation, La Quadrature du Net, Consumers International, Red SOStenible, Enrique Dans, Ricardo Galli, el abogado Carlos Almeida, Creative Commons España y Alemania y muchos otros.
Esperamos que este recurso resulte útil para otras iniciativas que buscan soluciones de sostenibilidad en la promoción del acceso y la creatividad para el desarrollo de la cultura y el conocimeinto. Invitamos a la ciudadanía, y a las instituciones a seguir la discusión sobre nuevos modelos sostenibles para la creatividad en un espacio de debate online que ha sido creado expresamente para ello: http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/modelos-sostenibles
Si te interesa participar escribe a: info(a)fcforum.net
En nuestro país Alex de la Iglesia abrió una brecha importante por la que el debate ya no puede ser silenciado. Este documento es una base práctica para seguir avanzando en la discusión.
Tenemos que defender y ampliar el ámbito en el que la creatividad humana y el conocimiento pueden prosperar libremente y de forma sostenible. Como sociedad civil, es nuestra responsabilidad oponernos a las prácticas de saqueo del patrimonio común y a las trabas a nuestro futuro desarrollo.
Se seguirán recogiendo adhesiones y aportaciones. Con ellas se irán elaborando nuevas versiones a medida que nuevas exigencias y nuevas soluciones vayan emergiendo.
Nuevos modelos de negocio? Si no los encuentran es porque no quieren.
Comparte, difunde, participa.
Foro de cultura libre (http://www.fcforum.net)
Adhesiones a la declaración: info(a)fcforum.net
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Declaració i Manual sobre models sostenibles per a la creativitat en la cultura i el coneixement en l'era digital
El Fòrum de cultura lliure (FCForum) (http://2010.fcforum.net/) llança avui la Declaració i el Manual sobre models sostenibles per a la creativitat en l'era digital: http://fcforum.net/es/sustainable-models-for-creativity
Hi ha molts models que ja estan operant o que són possibles. Aquest document examina alguns d'ells i demana que s'encoratgi i promogui el seu desenvolupament. El que ve a demostrar és que solucions pràctiques hi han. El que es ben distint és que no interessin a polítics a sou de multinacionals i d'interessos particulars. #NoLesVotes.
El FCForum és una plataforma internacional que reuneix cada any a organitzacions clau i veus actives en l'àmbit de la cultura i el coneixement lliure per a crear i coordinar un marc global d'acció. El text que es publica avui és el resultat de la trobada de 150 organitzacions a l'octubre de 2010 a Barcelona (http://2010.fcforum.net/). El procés de treball i consens va estar facilitat per La-EX.net (exEXGAE), Mayo Fuster Morell, i YProductions. La declaració i el manual contenen un anàlisi de cada sector (música, cinema, textos col.laboratius online, infraestructura digital, entre altres) i la descripció detallada de les noves fonts i models operant i possibles.
Així mateix, plasma les nostres conviccions compartides, entre elles:
Que el model actual de copyright és contraproduent i la reconversió del sector cultural és inevitable i necessària; que cal acabar amb els monopolis creats per algunes entitats i corporacions per al seu propi benefici, en molts casos amb la complicitat activa de governs. Compartir i intercanviar idees té una importància central per a la cultura, el coneixement i la democràcia, i hem d'ampliar els esforços institucionals i les iniciatives de la societat civil que els donen suport i promouen. És necessari i important que les persones que al compartir i col·laborar creen valor siguin compensades per aquestes contribucions valuoses per a la societat. El rol de la societat cívil com a proveïdora de béns comuns digitals mereix major reconeixement institucional.
La declaració també alerta que en els passadissos de ministeris i grans companyies del sector de la telecomunicació estan preparant un acord per a ampliar el cànon digital a la pròpia connexió a Internet. Jugada que considerem absolutament inacceptable en les condicions actuals i serà rebutjat per la societat civil.
El document, que segueix recollint adhesions, es publica signat per més de 40 organitzacions i especialistes nacionals i internacionals tals menjo Electronic Frontair Foundation, P2P Foundation, La Quadrature du Net, Consumers International, Xarxa Sostenible, Enrique Dans, Ricardo Galli, l'advocat Carlos Almeida, Creative Commons Espanya i Alemanya i molts altres.
Esperem que aquest recurs resulti útil per a altres iniciatives que busquen solucions de sostenibilitat en la promoció de l'accés i la creativitat per al desenvolupament de la cultura i el coneixement.
Convidem a la ciutadania, i a les institucions a seguir la discussió sobre nous models sostenibles per a la creativitat en un espai de debat online que ha estat creat expressament per a això: http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/models-sostenibles
Si t'interessa participar escriu a: info(a)fcforum.net
En el nostre país Alex de l'Església va obrir una bretxa important per la qual el debat ja no pot ser silenciat. Aquest document és una base pràctica per a seguir avançant en la discussió.
Hem de defensar i ampliar l'àmbit en el qual la creativitat humana i el coneixement poden prosperar lliurement i de forma sostenible. Com societat civil, és la nostra responsabilitat oposar-nos a les pràctiques de saqueig del patrimoni comú i als entrebancs al nostre futur desenvolupament. Es seguiran recollint adhesions i aportacions. I s'aniran elaborant noves versions a mesura que noves exigències i noves solucions vagin emergint.
Nous models de negoci? Si no els troben és perquè no volen.
Comparteix, difon, participa.
Fòrum de cultura lliure (http://www.fcforum.net)
Adhesions a la declaració: info(a)fcforum.net
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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.onlinecreation.info
E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
Hi all, reminder: the deadline for WMF community department summer
internships is March 7! They are looking for both qualitative and
quantitative analytical skills, see job descriptions below. :)
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:: Andrea Forte
:: Assistant Professor
:: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
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I. Wikimedia Foundation / Community Department Summer Fellowship
(Quantitative Research)
The Wikimedia Foundation is developing a community analytics platform
to gain a better understanding of its contributors and readers. This
platform is used both for answering ad-hoc questions and identifying
long-term trends.
We are seeking a small team of paid Summer fellows to help bring this
platform to life on a scalable platform, create many new data sets to
aid research, and begin to make the system available to the entire
Wikimedia and academic communities.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: You love data and you are a great story
teller. You enjoy working with large datasets and applying state of
the art algorithms. But data is not just numbers, it's telling a story
and you have a knack for discovering the most important story hidden
in the data. You share the values of the Wikipedia projects and the
Wikimedia Foundation.
CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS:
* Currently pursing a PhD in statistics, computer science,
mathematics, economics, biostatistics, physics, operations research or
another discipline involving large scale data analysis.
* Experience with statistical data analysis such as linear models,
multivariate analysis, stochastic models, and sampling methods.
* Excellent implementation skills in Python and at least one other
language (Java, PHP).
* Experience with Django is a big plus.
* Experience with NOSQL solutions (Hadoop/HBase/Hive or Mongo) or
eager to learn.
* Knowledge of UNIX/Linux or Windows environments and APIs. *
Familiarity with TCP/IP and network programming a plus.
* Being an editor of Wikipedia is a big plus.
* Self-starter: Able to mobilize the resources you need to get things
done, including yourself.
COMPENSATION: $3,200 per month + housing provided or housing stipend.
TIME COMMITMENT: Full time employment for as much of the Summer as
you’re available.
HOW TO APPLY: Please send the following materials to
bjones(a)wikimedia.org with “Summer Fellowship” in the subject line:
a. A thoughtful cover letter explaining your interest in this fellowship.
b. A brief description of your dissertation project and your interest
in linking your research to support the foundation’s mission.
c. An academic article you have written (published or unpublished)
that shows your writing skills.
d. A pointer to your website or other online presence (if available).
II. Wikimedia Foundation / Community Department Summer Research
Fellowship (Qualitative)
Be a part of an exciting Summer of research at the Wikimedia
Foundation. Our task: to understand better why the active editor base
is not replenishing itself at the same rate it used to -- and to
present data that can help our communities figure out what to do about
it. We are looking for PhD candidates or people who have completed
Masters degrees in history, other humanities fields, anthropology and
other social sciences. Over the Summer, we will be working on several
interdependent quantitative and qualitative research projects, as well
as developing new research tools. One or two longer-term fellowships
are also available.
This is a paid fellowship based in San Francisco. For an exceptional
candidate, and exception can be made to work remotely after a two week
orientation in San Francsico.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: You love taking a microscope to social
phenomena to figure out what is really going on at the level of
individuals' personal, daily, experience. You are a systems thinker
who can think about interactions between many variables and hypotheses
at the same time.
You love both quantitative data and textual archives. You are a great
story teller. You have a knack for discovering the most important
story hidden in the data.
CANDIDATE SKILLS/CHARACTERISTICS
* Believes in the value of Wikimedia. Exudes enthusiasm for the
mission and can powerfully embody and communicate it.
* Intellectual curiosity and flexibility. Enjoys tackling difficult,
ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one
approaches situations and generates solutions; loves learning from
others and expanding intellectual horizons
* Open and transparent: Comfortable working in a highly transparent
fashion, open to input and feedback, proactive candid communicator who
wants people to know what she/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring
others in when things are off-track or when you need help
* Action-oriented: Focuses on generating research results that are
high quality and support real-world decision-making and action in a
timely fashion; able to problem solve around imperfect data and make
appropriate methodological judgment
* Strong cultural competency: Ability to bridge cultures and
geographic differences; able to navigate in a truly global movement,
and understands the values in diverse communities and worldviews
* Self-starter: Able to mobilize the resources you need to get things
done, including yourself.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Masters degree, PhD candidate or PhD in relevent field such as
history, sociology, anthropology. Researching Wikimedia communities
requires a mix of skills unusual for any academic discipline, so we're
not picky about which discipline you come from. * Experience wrestling
with historical, sociological or anthropological questions pertaining
to the success, growth and survival of communities, social movements
and large scale collaborative work.
* Experience wading through dense and complex historical archives or
other textual social data.
* Wikimedians are strongly encouraged to apply!
COMPENSATION: $3,200 per month + housing stipend.
TIME COMMITMENT: Full time employment for as much of the Summer as
you’re available.
HOW TO APPLY: Please send the following materials to
bjones(a)wikimedia.org with “Summer Fellowship” in the subject line:
a. A thoughtful cover letter explaining your interest in this fellowship.
b. A brief description of your Masters degree or dissertation project
and your interest in linking your research to support the foundation’s
mission.
c. An academic article you have written (published or unpublished)
that shows your writing skills.
d. A pointer to your website or other online presence (if available).
**** Please note submission deadline extended to March 18, 2011 ****
(apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers)
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IEEE WETICE 2011
2nd International Track on
Collaborative Modeling and Simulation
CALL FOR PAPERS
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June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11
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# Papers Due: *** March 18, 2011 *** EXTENDED
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by
integrating processes, tools and platforms.
Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously
becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to
improve the quality of collaborative environments.
A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:
* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S
To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.
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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications and trends in the track research area.
Papers should contain original contributions not published or
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee
members.
Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE
approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each
accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the
paper published in the proceedings.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests
and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted
in PDF format at the submission site
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please
contact the track chairs (comets2011(a)easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.
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Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: March 18, 2011 *** EXTENDED
* Decision to paper authors: April 11, 2011 *** EXTENDED
* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011
* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011
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Organizing Committee
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy
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Program Committee
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
China
and California State University, USA
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University,
Canada
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)
Email: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011)
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org
at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)
http://www.eswc2011.org
May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.
“Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”
SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 4 (extended)
ELSEVIER BEST SEMANTIC PAPER AWARD
The Best Paper Award is presented to the author(s) deemed to have
written the paper covering the most innovative and feasible proposal
concerning semantic publishing in the workshop. All submissions to the
SePublica workshop will be considered, and a panel of experts will rate
the papers according to originality of the idea, feasibility and
presentation. The Best Paper award is sponsored by Elsevier as an
incentive for researchers working on defining the next generation of
scientific publishing concepts. The Best Paper Award will be handed out
at the end of the SePublica workshop.
• As a cash prize, the Best Paper Award will receive: US$ 750
• The runner-up will be awarded a prize of US$ 250.
The MISSION of the SePublica workshop is to bring together researchers
and practitioners dealing with different aspects of Semantic
Technologies in the Publishing Industry. How is the Semantic Web
impacting the publishing industry? How is our experience of
publications changing because of Semantic Web technologies being
applied to the publishing industry?
The CHALLENGE of the Semantic Web is to allow the Web to move from a
dissemination platform to an interactive platform for networked
information. The Semantic Web promises to “fundamentally change our
experience of the Web”.
In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and
retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing
industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for
scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in
general; however, most of that information remains locked up in
discrete documents, which are poorly interconnected to one another and
to the Web.
The connectivity tissues provided by RDF technology and the Social Web
have barely made an impact on scientific communication nor on ebook
publishing, neither on the format of publications, nor on repositories
and digital libraries. The worst problem is in accessing and reusing
the computable data which the literature represents and describes.
• Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential
elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the
research is recorded and preserved in perpetuity by way of a scholarly
journal article.
• Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public
sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but
news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data
sources.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
• What does a network of truly interconnected papers look like?
How could interoperability across documents be enabled?
• How could concept-centric social networks emerge?
• Are blogs and wikis new means for scholarly communication?
• What lessons can be learned from humanities and social science publishers
(i.e. going beyond scientific publishing towards scholarly publishing)?
• How could we move beyond the PDF?
How can we embed and link semantics in EPUB and other e-book formats?
• How are digital libraries related to semantic e-science?
What is the relationship between a paper and its digital library?
• How could we realize a paper with an API?
How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
• How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?
How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
• How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded
in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
• What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a
document?
• How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in
scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
AUDIENCE
• researchers from diverse backgrounds such as argumentative
structures, scholarly communication, multi-modality in publications,
digital libraries, semantics in publications, and ontology
engineers.
• practitioners active in the publishing industry, repositories of
experimental information and document standards.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper/Demo Submission Deadline (extended): Friday March 4, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Acceptance Notification: April 1
Camera Ready Version: April 15
SePublica Workshop: May 30
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5
pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be
submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted
according to the LNCS format
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
We encourage the submission of semantic documents. LaTeX documents in
the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT
(http://salt.semanticauthoring.org) or sTeX
(http://trac.kwarc.info/sTeX/). We also invite submissions in
XHTML+RDFa or in the format or YOUR semantic publishing tool.
However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors must additionally
export them to PDF. For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF
format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page
limit will be rejected without review.
Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might
be invited to present their papers during a poster session.
Please submit your paper via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2011
The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a
double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent
reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop
(requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop) and
will be included in the workshop proceedings that are published online
at CEUR-WS.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada
• Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Oscar Corcho, Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Stéphane Corlosquet, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
• Joe Corneli, Open University, UK
• Michael Dreusicke, PAUX Technologies, Germany
• Henrik Eriksson, Linköping University, Sweden
• Benjamin Good, Genomic Institute, Novartis, USA
• Tudor Groza, University of Queensland, Australia
• Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany
• Sebastian Kruk, knowledgehives.com, Poland
• Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research, Austria
• Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK
• Matthias Samwald, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
• Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
• Robert Stevens, Manchester University, UK
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Alexander García Castro, University of Bremen, Germany
• Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
• Anita de Waard, Elsevier, USA/Netherlands
• Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA
QUESTIONS? → sepublica(a)googlegroups.com
--
Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype
duke4701
Semantic Publication workshop at ESWC 2011, May 30, Hersonissos, Crete,
Greece
Submission deadline March 4, http://SePublica.mywikipaper.org
LNCS Post-proceedings of selected submissions, Best Paper Award by Elsevier
In case anyone missed this....
This paper outline a new in memory approach to running distributed map/reduce jobs:
http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Power.pdf
Definitely some interesting optimizations going on in there (like the use of partitioned tables) that might be relevant when setting up "big data" infrastructure for mining WMF data.
Worth a read if you are into distributed computing.
-P-
--
Peter Adams <peter(a)openwebanalytics.com>
Open Web Analytics
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
CALL FOR PAPERS - WikiSym 2011 - 7th International Symposium on
Wikis and Open Collaboration
October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is
the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies.
In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and
community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft
Research Campus in Silicon Valley.
Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
are available on the conference website:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/submitting:start
* Research Papers, Panels, Workshop: April 1
* Posters, Demos: May 13
* Notification of Acceptance: June 17
The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, as
well as workshops, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel
speakers. Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the
value of a good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. As
always, Open Space, a participant-organized track will also run
throughout the conference. Many of the most innovative technology
companies in the world have a presence in Mountain View, which makes it
an ideal venue for hatching new ideas and thoughtful debate about
collaborative computing among technologists, researchers, educators, and
activists.
Topics appropriate for research submissions include all aspects of the
people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration
systems. For example:
* Collaboration tools and processes
* Social and cultural aspects of collaboration
* Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc.
* Communities and workgroups
* Knowledge and information production
* New media literacies
* Uses and impact of wikis and open resources in specific fields, such as
- Education/Open Educational Resources
- Law/Intellectual Property
- Journalism
- Art
- Science
- Publishing
- Business
- Entertainment
In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites
innovative proposals for wiki-style art and performance.
Felipe Ortega, Conference Chair
University Rey Juan Carlos
http://felipeortega.net/
Andrea Forte, Program Chair
Drexel University
http://www.andreaforte.net/
> Edit history in an accessible form -- create a queryable NoSQL form of
data dumps
I'd like to get this started ASAP. I think we can set up a bridge to
synchronize directly from MediaWiki to a tool like Cassandra. It will
provide a superior source for both XML dumps and analysis.
> Data dumps -- ongoing improvements of the data dump creation process
I think we can improve this process by working on a queryable NoSQL
system that syncs directly from MediaWiki. It should allow us to produce
dumps in parallel and with more bandwidth than querying MySQL.
> Privacy -- making sure we act consistently with the letter and intent
of our privacy policy
( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy ) in developing new
analytics solutions
I'm happy to share thoughts here and participate in discussions.
> Big Data ad hoc mining infrastructure -- working through design
considerations for a NoSQL cluster
This seems to go hand-in-hand with the first two working groups.
> Fundraiser Analytics & Testing -- group devoted to QA of existing
systems
I'm trying to ramp down my work here so I can move onto the other
challenges.
--
David Strauss
| david(a)davidstrauss.net
| +1 512 577 5827 [mobile]
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AI Mashup Challenge 2011
http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/aimashup11/
of the
8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
http://www.eswc2011.org/
May 29 - June 2, 2011, Heraklion, Greece
Topics of interest
A mashup is a lightweight (web) application that offers new
functionality by combining, aggregating and transforming resources and
services available on the web.
The AI mashup challenge accepts and awards "intelligent" mashups that
use AI technology, including but not restricted to
• machine learning and data mining
• machine vision
• natural language processing
• reasoning
• ontologies and the semantic web.
The emphasis is not on providing and consuming semantic markup, but
rather on using intelligence to mashup these resources in a more
powerful way.
Some examples:
• Information extraction or automatic text summarization to create a
task-oriented overview mashup for mobile devices.
• Semantic Web technology and data sources adapting to user and
task-specific configurations.
• Semantic background knowledge (such as ontologies, WordNet or Cyc)
to improve search and content combination.
• Machine translation for mashups that cross language borders.
• Machine vision technology for novel ways of aggregating images, for
instance mixing real and virtual environments.
• Intelligent agents taking over simple household planning tasks.
• Text-to-speech technology creating a voice mashup with intelligent
and emotional intonation.
• The display of Pub Med articles on a map based on geographic entity
detection referring to diseases or health centers.
Awards
• € 1750 sponsored by Elsevier
• Speech outfit from Linguatec
• 10 O'Reilly e-books
• 2 x up to 5 mashup books from Addison-Wesley
Submission and deadline
The challenge tries to mediate between a grassroot bar-camp style and
standard conference organization. This means for submitters:
• You announce your mashup as soon as you are ready, simply sending an
email to the organizers (address below).
• The deadline is April 1, 2011.
• At a subpage of the mashup website provided by the organizers, you
explain your work and refer to its URL.
• Your mashup stays at your URL and under your control. You can go on
improving it.
• At review time (1st April 2011), reviewers need a 5 page paper (LNCS
format) that explains the mashup.
• The reviewers select the most interesting mashups for presentation
and vote during the conference.
• Vote is public for all conference participants, but the reviewer
quota makes up 40%.
• Be prepared to a give a brief talk and a demo during the conference.
• Awards will be handed over during the conference, and everybody will
congratulate the winners!
Organizers
• Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, Hannover, Germany
with the support of
• Pascal Hitzler, Dayton, OH
Program Committee
• Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University, Cottbus, Germany
• Christoph Lange, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
• Emilian Pascalau, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, AT&T Labs, Florham Park NJ, USA
• Jevon Wright, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
• Sven Windisch, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany
• Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Gregoire Burel,OAK, Univ. of Sheffield, UK
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Thorsten Liebig, Univ. of Ulm & derivo GmbH, Germany
Main Contact
• Brigitte.Endres-Niggemeyer(a)fh-hannover.de
• brigitteen(a)googlemail.com
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Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
Hannover Univ. of Applied Sciences
Faculty 3, Media, Information and Design
Expo Plaza 12
30539 Hannover
+49 511 92 96 2641
Brigitte.Endres-Niggemeyer(a)fh-hannover.de
brigitteen(a)googlemail.com
http://sites.google.com/a/fh-hannover.de/brigitte-endres-niggemeyer/home
--
Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype
duke4701
Semantic Publication workshop, May 29 or May 30, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
Submission deadline February 28, http://SePublica.mywikipaper.org
LNCS Post-proceedings of selected submissions, Best Paper Award by Elsevier
[Apologies for cross-posting]*
*The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place on
30th June -- 1st July 2011 in Berlin.
Website: http://okcon.org/2011 <http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/>
Call for participation: http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/
We are looking forward for your participation! It would be great to meet
you at OKCon 2011 in Berlin.
Please get in touch with us at okcon(a)okfn.org <mailto:okcon@okfn.org> if
you want to participate, have any questions or suggestions.
There are several ways to participate (the deadline is /May 1st/).
Please have a look at the *How To Participate *Section below. *
*Regards,
Sebastian Hellmann*
*
*
Announcement*
OKCon is a wide-ranging conference that brings together individuals and
organizations from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of
presentations, workshops and exchange of ideas.
Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a
wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology.
Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and
reuse, bridge gaps, improve transparency and thus foster innovation and
increase societal welfare.
In Berlin, we will be surrounded by a variety of interesting
communities. These include open access and open bibliography communities
to the OpenStreetMap, hacker and artist groups to the various free
culture and commons research communities. We look forward to jointly
discussing with all of them the latest developments and aspects of
open knowledge in their work.
This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives
such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is
enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all
levels and in many countries. Moreover, in the last year, many
governments across the world have begun opening up their data.
And it doesn't stop there. In academia, open access to both publications
and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up
learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore this
gathering flood of open data plus content is the creator and driver of
massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how
can we connect it together, how can we use it to collaborate and share
our work? We will explore these issues, and more, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin.
*Topic areas*
*
*We welcome proposals on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing
content or data that is open in accordance with
http://opendefinition.org. Topics include but are not limited to:
*Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research
*
. Open license models for scientific data, adaption of licenses for
special domain requirements
. Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models
. Open models for scientific innovation, for funding and for publication
('open-access')
. Tools for analysing and visualizing open data
*Open Law, Society and Democracy
*
. Open licensing, legal tools and the Public Domain
. Open government data and content (public sector information)
. Open knowledge and international development
. Opening up access to the law and lawmaking processes
*Open Technologies
*
. Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge
. Infrastructure, platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and
curating open knowledge
. Light-weight, adaptive interaction models
. Open, decentralized social network applications
. Open geospatial data
*Open Culture, Education and Commons Research
*
. Open educational tools and resources, open textbooks
. Public Domain digitisation initiatives
. Incentives and rewards for open-knowledge contributors
. P2P production and sustainability models for open content
. Governance of the knowledge commons
*Important Dates
*
. Submission deadline: May 1st, 2011
. Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2011
. OKCon: 30th June & 1st July, 2011
*How To Participate
*OKCon 2011 will have several formats and ways in which you can participate:
. presentation sessions
. lightning talks
. hands on workshops
. open space
. exhibition spaces
. open design and fablab
. hackspace
We are especially interested, if you want to organize a an event in one
of the above formats and topic areas. You are also more than welcome to
propose additional formats and topics. If you would like to organise,
participate or have a proposal of another format please submit your
ideas and proposals here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
*OKCon Formats & Submission Details
*
*Presentation Sessions and Proceedings
*To reserve a slot in one of the presentation sessions you can apply in
the following manner: You can submit an extended abstract of 2-4 pages
describing the topic of your presentation. OKCon also has an academic
stream and will publish proceedings. If you additionally want your
submission to be included in the conference proceedings please prepare
an extended 5-10 page paper submission and format it according to
the LNCS Style
Please Note: Proceedings of OKCon will be published at http://ceur-ws.org.
To make a submission for the presentation session and proceedings please
visit: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=okcon2011
*Lightning Talks
*Lightning talks are short presentations, which last 2-3 minutes with
2-3 slides. Submission of lightning talks can be done directly at the
conference up to 5 minutes before the Lightning talk session starts.
Make sure you get your message through and please: don't be boring ;)
*Hands-on Workshops
*The hands on workshops is the format where you can intensively work
with a relatively small group of people on your presented topic or
project. This is not for lectures but for hands-on collaboration,
exchange and skill sharing. If you are interested to run a workshop on
OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
*Open Space
*The open space offers a place for all kind of spontaneous
interventions, meetings and the like following the concept of the open
space technology. The open space area will be close to the exhibition
space area and is open for you all the time. The open space can be used
all times by anybody without submission. However, if you would like top
run an event at the open space you might submit your idea here:
http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ to help us planning.
*Exhibition Space
*The exhibition space is an open area where people, projects and
organisations can present their ideas and projects to the public.
Projects can have a permanent desc for a point of reference of their
project. If you want to be present in the exhibition space at OKCon 2011
please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
*Open Design and FabLab work area
*The open design and Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is an area
dedicated to open processes in creating, sharing, reusing and producing
of all kind of art, designs and other products. If you are interested in
contributing to the open design and fablab work area at OKCon 2011
please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
*Hackspace / Hackathon
*The hackspace is a dedicated space for you hackers. This is the right
place to get your hand dirty and organise your hackathon. A hackathon is
a collaborative decentraliced event of short timespan like one or two
days with the aim to having a lot of fun with code & data. If you are
interested to run a hackathon at OKCon 2011 please submit your
proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
--
Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org