SIGVIS is issuing a Call for Participation for next year’s ASIS&T conference, October 24-29, in Columbus, OH, for which the theme will be “People Transforming Information – Information Transforming People”. Specific to SIGVIS, we are seeking research on any of the following topics
Contributions can be in either of two forms. Posters should be about nascent research, best practices, or practical implementation of IS principles and research. Students especially are being sought for participation in the poster sessions; it is a good way to promote both yourself and your research agenda to potential collaborators and future employers. While SIGVIS does not sponsor posters per se, we do feel that if we can help spread the word about what ASIS&T is looking for, we should do so.
Panels should present ideas for discussion or to report on current research efforts. We are being encouraged by ASIS&T to make the panels more of an exchange with the audience, as some panels in Milwaukee seemed to be no different than paper presentations. Toward this end, we are trying to coordinate submissions both within SIGVIS and in relation to other SIGs, particularly SIGCR (Classification Research), SIGDL (Digital Libraries), and SIGED (Education for Information Science), so that we might produce something more along the lines of a question-and-answer session rather than lectures. The sooner the panel knows what the individual messages will be, the sooner and better they can identify areas for potential questions, gaps in the research presented, and ways to get the questions flowing.
We would very much like to have two or more SIGVIS sessions in Columbus along with any collaborative efforts with other SIGs. If we find we have three or more sets of related research, then we will ask to have a session to ourselves in the conference that speaks to our own interests. If we find that the submissions are more diverse, then we will seek out other SIGs with similar interests in a given subject and ask if we might work together. We are not seeking a pre-conference session at this time, but if the opportunity arises, we may seek to take advantage of it.
The ASIS&T CFP, including submission guidelines, can be found at:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM08/AM08_cfp.doc
We hope to hear from you soon.
The October/November issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin was edited by Diane Neal (SIGVIS co-chair), with Chris Landbeck, Elaine Ménard, and Joan Beaudoin (all SIGVIS members) contributing articles. This issue deals with folksonomies and image tagging, looking at patterns and problems that are emerging in Web 2.0 as they might alpply to practitioners. Have a look.
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