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 Arts and Humanities (AH)
SIG/AH explores the applications of information science to scholarship and creative endeavors in the humanities and fine arts. Illustrative concerns include the computerized storage and retrieval of text, image and sound; new methods for the organization of scholarly work; bibliometric and other studies of information dissemination; and the social structure of humanities and fine arts disciplines. SIG/AH also has an abiding interest in the humanistic implications of information technology and the information society.
E-mail list: sigah-l(click here for instructions)
Bioinformatics (BIO) (Virtual SIG)
As a new SIG, SIG/BIO will explore the applications of information science to bioinformatics, which has been defined as "the generation, handling, storage, retrieval and analysis of biological sequence data [genes and proteins]." This is bioinformatics in the research sense used by Cole & Bawden -- J.Doc. v52 (1): 51-68, March 1996 -- as distinguished from the sense implied by the phrases medical informatics or literature search specialists. We plan to foster collaborations with SIG/MED where appropriate, albeit SIG/BIO will focus on a specialized subset of topics.
This new SIG will provide a forum for interaction between three scientific research and informatics communities: bioinformatics (e.g.: scientists in computational molecular biology), information technology, and information science.
SIG/BIO programs will center on such topics as: identification of areas where information science may impact current genomics and proteomics programs; existing and new methods for the organization, structuring and linking of biochemical, genetic, genomic and proteomic data collections (ontologies and thesauri, perhaps); information science and the emerging problems of systems biology; application of information measures to theoretical problems in genomics; design and implementation of effective gene annotation and retrieval methods; current awareness of the genomic sequencing and proteomics efforts; and discussion of the social and ethical issues involved with the acquisition and use of genomic data.
SIG/BIO interests will span from the theoretical -- application of information science principles to the understanding of genomic sequences -- to the practical -- navigation and mediated use of genomics and proteomics databases in corporate, academic and public contexts.
E-mail list: sigbioinform-l(click here for instructions)
Blogs,
Wikis, Podcasting (BWP) (Virtual SIG)
E-mail
list: Sig_bwp
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Blog:
http://asist.typepad.com/sig_bwp/
Classification Research (CR)
SIG/CR studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata. It is concerned with organizing information, and includes indexing, index construction, indexing language, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, and testing and evaluating the effectiveness of these products. It is also concerned with the ability to develop abstractions from perceived reality. Theoretical emphases include cognition, grouping and organization of groupings, and linguistics.
E-mail list: sigcr-l(click here for instructions)
Critical Issues (CRIT) Virtual SIG
SIG-CRIT investigates conceptual issues in information science and studies using philosophical, historiographical, rhetorical, social, and cultural approaches within a broad, interdisciplinary framework of "critical theory." The purpose of this SIG is to bring together researchers in these areas, to create connections between various research agendas and national traditions, and to create an intellectually deeper and socially richer interdisciplinary dialogue between information science and other fields in the social and human sciences.
E-mail list: sigcrit-l(click here for instructions)
Digital Libraries (DL)
SIG/DL provides a forum for discussion about research, development and use of digital libraries in corporate, academic and public contexts. It is concerned with all aspects of digital library design and implementation including, but not limited to: copyright issues, networked infrastructures, interoperability of distributed databases, database management, policies and standards in relation to the digitization of material, metadata, preservation, providing electronic access, authentication, software, hardware, peopleware, and project management. SIG/DL also works to facilitate increased international, interdisciplinary and inter-societal collaboration focusing on digital libraries and related issues.
E-mail list: sigdl-l (click here for instructions)
Education for Information Science (ED)
SIG/ED focuses on the education - at all levels - of those concerned with the handling of information. It is a forum for coordinating efforts of educators in a wide variety of information-oriented fields, including computer and communications science, librarianship and management. Levels encompass basic education for the profession, advanced education and research, and continuing professional education. Its programs center on such topics as curriculum design, research, instructional resources and methods, manpower needs, placement, recruitment to the profession, continuing education and educational program planning. SIG/ED administers the Doctoral Forum at each ASIS&T Annual Meeting and the annual Student Paper Contest.
E-mail list: siged-l(click here for instructions)
History and Foundations of Information Science (HFIS)
SIG/HFIS develops theories, fundamental concepts, and models of information science and cybernetics so that satisfactory theoretical frameworks will ultimately generate better information systems and services. It embraces philosophical, semiological, mathematical, physical, biological, psychological and sociological disciplines. Publication by members is highly encouraged as is vigorous interaction with other SIGs.
E-mail list: sighfis-l(click here for instructions)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
SIG/HCI serves practical and theoretical interests in research, design, development and evaluation of how human beings use and communicate with computers. Interests include on-line users and their behavior; the observable capabilities and performance of the interactive computer system; and the characteristics of the human-computer interface. SIG/HCI encourages the development and refinement of on-line interaction models to highlight common features in existing or proposed user interfaces. Major emphasis is on the interface with networks and various on-line information storage and retrieval applications, but other information-processing and display systems are also considered.
E-mail list: sighci-l(click here for instructions)
Information Analysis and Evaluation (IAE)
SIG/IAE is concerned with procedures for the critical evaluation of selected items from the information available, to assign relative values and to detect meanings of interest for an expected use. Its primary emphasis is on value systems for the analytical evaluation of information, as distinct from the measurement and evaluation of information operations. Its interests also include the activities and place of the Information Analysis Center as a key organizational unit for the analytical evaluation of information.
E-mail list: sigiae-l(click here for instructions)
Information Architecture (IA)
To provide a forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators working in the multidisciplinary areas of information architecture where they can continue the conversation begun at the March 2000 ASIS&T Summit on Information Architecture. This conversation includes but is not limited to:
- Stimulating collaboration among practitioners, researchers, and educators.
- Stimulating design, development, and execution of research activities and the development of new research fronts
- Sharing applicable research to reduce redundancy.
- Sharing experiences with all aspects of information architecture practice.
- Shaping the education and training of future information architects.
- Building a shared vocabulary about information architecture.
- Chronicling emerging concerns and trends related to information architecture.
Above all, the SIG-IA will be guided by an ethic of inclusion, where the full range of participants -- from those who are self-taught to those with considerable academic training -- will feel comfortable helping each other develop the professional practice of information architecture. To support this ongoing conversation, the ASIS&T SIG-IA has developed an E-mail list, will develop a web site and explore other mechanisms to promote communication and collaboration.
E-mail list: sigia-l(click here for instructions)
Information Needs, Seeking and Use (USE)
SIG/USE members are concerned with the activities, both behavioral and cognitive, of people who are interacting with information. These activities include: recognizing information needs, seeking information that will address those needs, exploring information sources present in one's context/situation, retrieving information from available information sources, communicating and collaborating with others concerning an information need or information resources, using information, and other interactions between people and information. The SIG wishes to promote studies of human information-related behavior and provision of information services, and to encourage the application of the study results to information systems design.
E-mail list: siguse-l(click here for instructions)
Information Policy
(IFP)
SIG/IFP helps ensure that ASIS&T members are aware of legislation and regulation affecting the information field and/or members of the information professions. It provides venues which encourage research on and discussion of current and emergent information policies as they affect society. It will promote awareness of state/provincial, national and international policies of public and private entities.
E-mail list: sigifp-l(click here for instructions)
International Information Issues (III)
The purposes of SIG/III are a) to promote better awareness among ASIS&T members and information professionals of the importance of international cooperation; b) to facilitate and enhance better communication and interaction among ASIS&T members and their foreign colleagues on information issues; and c) to provide a forum for exploring and discussing international information issues and problems. SIG/III membership includes most non-U.S. ASIS&T members and a true cross-section of U.S. ASIS&T members.
E-mail list: sigiii-l(click here for instructions)
Knowledge Management (KM)
Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of knowledge within all types of organizations, including knowledge creation, documentation, codification, sharing, and how these activities promote innovation, learning, effectiveness, and profitability. As an activity Knowledge Management encompasses techniques, techology, and organizational change. Knowledge Management is increasingly becoming a concern for local, state, and national governments, and international organizations seeking to support economic and social welfare in the Information Age. The Special Interest Group for Knowledge Management will facilitates members' exploration of Knowledge Management for practical, educational,and scholarly purposes and will seek to collaborate with other SIGs and other organizations.
E-mail list: sigkm-l(click here for instructions)
Library Technologies (LT) formerly Library Automation and Networks (LAN)
SIG/LT focuses on the analysis, planning, management and use of innovative technology in library operations and networking. Among the library operations that lend themselves to computer technology, networking, and systems analysis are acquisitions, cataloging circulation, serials processing, reference, collection development, interlibrary communication and library management. SIG/LT is also concerned with the relationships between libraries and other segments of the information community, such as abstracting and indexing services, publishers, producers of bibliographic databases and developers of commercial library-processing system.
E-mail list: siglan-l(click here for instructions)
Management (MGT)
SIG/MGT serves those who manage information in technical or generalist environments and those who seek to increase their effectiveness at one or more stages of the information process spectrum (creation to dissemination). It provides a forum for study and discussion of confluence and integration of information technologies; managing financial and human resources; economics of the unit and the enterprise; cost-benefit analysis applications to information activities; designing optimum training and professional development strategies for information professionals; and enhancing organizational and individual productivity through effective information management.
E-mail list: sigmgt-l(click here for instructions)
Medical Informatics (MED)
SIG/MED brings together members of various disciplines to evaluate the needs and problems of developing and managing medical information systems that can handle the complex uses to which they are put. It is concerned with the application of information science principles, information technology, and communication to biomedical science and health care and their related social and ethical issues. SIG/MED provides a forum for sharing and managing knowledge as a strategic resource for improving the quality, effectiveness, and use of biomedical information, data transfer, and communication through rigorous application of medical informatics. Areas of interest include bibliographic, text, numeric, and image databases; medical information collection, management, dissemination, and communication; biomedical information systems for academic, group and solo practice, hospital, industrial, health care delivery, and research institutions; biomedical simulation, telecommunications, virtual communities and networks, decision support and knowledge systems, and information infrastructures; and health information systems for the public.
E-mail list: sigmed-l(click here for instructions)
Metrics(Virtual SIG)
SIGMETRICS is a E-mail list discussion group that covers bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics, but also metrics as related to the design and operation of Digital Libraries and other information systems interpreted broadly. Academicians, practicioners, commercial providers, government representatives, and interested persons are welcome.
E-mail list: sigmetrics(click here for instructions)
Scientific and Technical Information Systems (STI)
SIG/STI focuses on the applications of information science to the production, organization, and dissemination of scientific and technical information. Members of this SIG are concerned with enhancing access to information in the pure and applied sciences. SIG/STI provides a forum for information specialists, librarians, scientists, and others who work in a scientific setting to discuss and evaluate developments that offer potential for more effective management of numerical, image, and textual information. SIG/STI sponsors the Tri-Society Symposium, jointly with the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society and the Chemistry Section of the Special Libraries Association. The Symposium is held every four years to address research and applications in chemical information science. SIG/STI also sponsors two awards for students to support their attendance at an ASIS&T mid-year or annual meeting: the CAS Student Award, funded by Chemical Abstracts Service, and the BIOSIS Student Award, funded by BIOSIS.
E-mail list: sigsti-l(click here for instructions)
Technology, Information, and Society (TIS)
SIG/TIS acts as a channel and source of information about the issues (including moral and ethical issues) arising from the way technological advances in information transfer affect society. It strives to understand future implications of an ever-changing technology and what the changes will mean, while considering possible controls and procedures as the techniques are being developed. Areas of interest include the pressures and effects on information services of the privacy issue; private rights vs. freedom of information; the introduction of CATV and video recording, possibly to substantially replace printing or photography as the media of information exchange; the effects on information services of copyright laws; the responsibility for information disseminated by government, credit bureaus, news media, etc., and its possible regulation; and social, political and economic factors in international information flow.
E-mail list: sigtis-l(click here for instructions)
Visualization, Images, and Sound (VIS)
SIG/VIS provides a forum for ASIS&T members to discuss, develop, and promote issues and research involving graphic and visual information. Such information includes, but is not limited to, text document images, still and moving pictures with or without sound, geographic attributes and topology, and virtual representations of the visual world. SIG/VIS's mission is to promote the exchange, development, communication, and dissemination of information and research related to visual and graphic information among ASIS&T members and to the larger community of practitioners and scholars.
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