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{"title":"A New Open Humanities: Introduction","authors":"Jeremy L. McLaughlin","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430504","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430504","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>The third annual Virtual Symposium on Information &amp; Technology in the Arts &amp; Humanities, held on April 18 and 19, 2017, centered on a theme of open science in the humanities. Presentations at the Symposium have included topics such as data visualization, historical images, interactive exhibits and linked data. The 2017 theme of open humanities was a starting point for the speakers to consider how open science has and can impact the world of humanities in various ways. Speakers at the symposium discussed analyzing writing practices on the internet using web scrapers, data management in the humanities, visual literacy skills of graduate and undergraduate students and the challenge researchers face in trying to keep up with publications in their field.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"110068426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaboration in the Spotlight: The Open Symphony Case","authors":"Kate Hayes","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430507","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430507","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>The voice of the performing arts is an important – though seldom heard – disciplinary component of information science research. The Open Symphony, a collaboration between a performing musician and computer science students, allowed for creative audience interaction with live music performances. But such interdisciplinary collaboration is difficult and needs to be put within the larger context of questions surrounding value, individual contribution in artistic expression and ownership in the performing arts. Indeed, tensions around the economics of art and commercial versus academic value may hinder collaborations between artists and academia, but with the right framework and definitions of value these efforts could lead to additional forms of cross-disciplinary exploration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"106914062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Open Access Publishing Models and How OA Can Work in the Humanities","authors":"Martin Paul Eve","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430505","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430505","url":null,"abstract":"EDITOR'S SUMMARYOpen access (OA) has been shaping and benefitting the scientific community for years now, but this new wave of disseminating research freely has not quite taken hold in the field of humanities. Though humanities publishers could also benefit from an OA model, many have been resistant, citing possible issues with plagiarism or appropriation of an author's work for less than ideal uses. There are also challenges with the cost of publishing OA content, which for humanities could be much higher than in the scientific community due to the length of works produced. Some institutions have taken to charging authors to publish their content in an OA model, while others have opted for a membership structure or joining a consortium of other institutions, such as Knowledge Unlatched or the Open Library of Humanities. While many great strides have been taken to bring OA to humanities, there is still work to do to make the study of humanity accessible to all.","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"106676919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Desktop","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430501","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The timely and important focus of this issue is open science in the humanities. Our coverage draws from the third annual Virtual Symposium on Information &amp; Technology in the Arts &amp; Humanities, presented on April 18 and 19, 2017, by the ASIS&amp;T Special Interest Groups/Arts and Humanities (SIG/AH) and Visualization, Images and Sound (SIG/VIS). Special section editor Jeremy McLaughlin provides an extensive <b>Introduction</b>, including a synopsis of all the talks. In addition, papers based on four of the presentations are included in the section. Together, they touch on many of the recurring issues in adapting aspects of open science to the humanities, including open access publishing, collaboration, introducing students to born-digital publishing and the role of metrics in academic evaluation in the humanities.</p><p>In Association news, as part of its tradition of striving to increase diversity and enhance inclusion across boundaries, including international and cultural differences, ASIS&amp;T held a Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon for the first time at the 2016 Annual Meeting The purpose was both to celebrate our successes in this area and to generate ideas for improvement and expansion going forward. Annual Meeting co-chairs, Diane Sonnenwald and Lauren Harrison, designed and organized the luncheon, while eight colleagues, Judit Bar-Ilan, Harry Bruce, Toni Carbo, Lynn Connaway, Ixchel Faniel, Sandra Hirsch, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Adam Worrall, led discussions at the lunch tables. In “<b>2016 ASIS&amp;T Annual Meeting Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon: Report and Recommendations</b>,” the organizers include details of the event as well many of the thoughtful recommendations for both the Annual Meeting and ASIS&amp;T as a whole generated by the table discussions.</p><p>On the “<b>President's Page</b>” Lynn Silipigni Connaway introduces new ASIS&amp;T executive director Lydia Middleton, who started work at the Association on May 8. She announces the plenary speakers for the Annual Meeting, details plans for our 80 Anniversary celebration there and reminds us of deadlines associated with the meeting program. Other topics include her two weeks as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong promoting information science research and ASIS&amp;T and her attendance with past president Nadia Caidi at the meeting of the Council for Scientific Society Presidents.</p>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137849802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Four Claims on Research Assessment and Metric Use in the Humanities","authors":"Björn Hammarfelt","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430508","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430508","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Bibliometric evaluation for research in the field of sciences can be a good way to assess the quality and factual basis of claims and can lead to more funding for authors and for research work. However, due to the more diverse fields covered, this type of evaluation is less effective in the world of humanities. Many professionals and researchers in humanities fields believe that bibliometric evaluation is meant only for STEM research and can't properly assess any findings made in humanities. Four common claims made about bibliometrics in humanities are that bibliometrics do not adequately cover the non-uniform nature of humanities; greater bibliometric coverage will not solve all the research problems in humanities subjects; metrics use already has an impact on humanities research practices and finally; other evaluation methods, like altmetrics, are conventional.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"94106217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ASIS&T Hires New Executive Director","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ASIS&amp;T Board of Directors announces the hiring of Lydia Middleton, MBA, CAE, as its new executive director. Middleton, who began work in May, was hired after an extensive search from a pool of 200 applicants.</p><p>“On behalf of the ASIS&amp;T Board, I am thrilled to welcome <b>Lydia Middleton</b> as our new executive director,” Lynn Silipigni Connaway, ASIS&amp;T president says. “Lydia brings a wealth of experience leading non-profit scholarly and professional associations. She has increased revenue and expanded membership by introducing new opportunities for sponsorships, collaboration and engagement. As ASIS&amp;T celebrates its 80th anniversary, the Board believes Lydia is the best person to lead us into a new period of growth and increased offerings for our members.”</p><p>Lydia has served as executive director with the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, the Association for University Programs in Health Administration and the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University.</p><p>“I am tremendously excited to be joining the team at ASIS&amp;T,” remarked Middleton. “ASIS&amp;T is an organization which has had a long and successful tradition of service to the information science community. I look forward to continuing that tradition while seeking new opportunities for member engagement, strategic growth and enhanced impact for the organization.”</p><p>Lydia succeeds Dick Hill who retired this year after nearly 27 years as ASIS&amp;T executive director.</p><p>Some 80 years ago, a group of individuals nominated by and representing major scientific and professional societies, foundations and government agencies got together to form the American Documentation Institute (ADI) with the expressed purpose of using microfilm as an information storage medium and reproduction tool. Could Watson Davis and his contemporaries have known where their efforts to find ways to conserve publication space in technical journals would take the soon-to-be-named field of <i>information science</i>?</p><p>Now, in 2017, ADI is the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&amp;T), and ASIS&amp;T is celebrating its 80 years of service to the field of information science and the technologies it has both helped spawn and incorporate into the vast information age in which we now live and work. This fall in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where it all began, ASIS&amp;T and its members will raise their glasses in honor of all they have done in support of the profession.</p><p><b>Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds</b> is the theme of the 80^th anniversary meeting, focusing on the diverse ways in which people from different backgrounds, cultures and disciplines forge connections with each other, discover and use information, and engage with technology. The meeting is October 27-November 1, 2017, headqu","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137849803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"President's Page","authors":"Lynn Silipigni Connaway 2017 ASIS&T President","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430502","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>ASIS&amp;T president Lynn Silipigni Connaway announced the new executive director of ASIS&amp;T, Lydia Middleton. Lydia joined ASIS&amp;T ready to lead after Dick Hill's 27 years of service as executive director. Also announced are the keynote speakers for the 2017 Annual Meeting: Richard Marks, head of PlayStation Magic Lab at Sony Interactive Entertainment, and William Powers, best-selling author and research scientist at MIT Media Lab. The Annual Meeting will also have an 80^th Anniversary Welcome Reception and panel session, and work is underway for an interactive history exhibit at the meeting, coordinated by Kathryn La Barre. Lynn Silipigni Connaway was invited to spend April 26 through May 7 in Hong Kong as a visiting professor working with the master of library and information management program at the University of Hong Kong. Connaway and past president Nadia Caidi also attended the Council for Scientific Society Presidents in Washington, D.C., May 2017, and ASIS&amp;T partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Earth Day Network for the March for Science.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430502","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137851907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon: Report and Recommendations","authors":"Diane H. Sonnenwald,&nbsp;Lauren Harrison,&nbsp;Judit Bar-Ilan,&nbsp;Harry Bruce,&nbsp;Toni Carbo,&nbsp;Lynn Silipigni Connaway,&nbsp;Ixchel Faniel,&nbsp;Sandra Hirsh,&nbsp;Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan,&nbsp;Adam Worrall","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430509","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430509","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>ASIS&amp;T has continuously worked to enhance diversity and inclusion over its long history, including the formation of the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues and the name change from the American Society for Information Science and Technology to the Association for Information Science and Technology. During the 2016 ASIS&amp;T Annual Meeting (AM), a Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon was held to promote discussion and ideas of new ways for ASIS&amp;T to promote diversity. Attendees of the luncheon were asked to share positive personal experiences with diversity, as well as share ideas for how to bolster diversity and inclusion in future AMs and for ASIS&amp;T as an organization. Suggestions include the meeting being held outside of North America more frequently, inclusion of mentor programs for papers and new attendees of AMs, removing North American-centric language from communications and more ASIS&amp;T board members from other continents. The suggestions were recommended to the ASIS&amp;T Board for further discussion.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430509","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99718328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Zombies to Teach Collaborative Scholarship and Born-Digital Publishing","authors":"Jamie A. Thomas","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430506","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430506","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Zombies have been sweeping across all types of media for many years, and their popularity continues to rise with TV shows like <i>The Walking Dead</i> and movies like <i>Warm Bodies</i>. The popularity of entertainment about the undead presents an interesting opportunity to draw parallels between the fiction of zombies and the reality of human politics, societies and issues. In an effort to connect this discourse with born-digital publishing, <i>[ZOMBIES REIMAGINED]</i> was created. The effort behind <i>[ZOMBIES REIMAGINED]</i> was undertaken by faculty, students and librarians at Swarthmore College, and it was launched in May 2016 as a public website with individual exhibits in the form of web pages. The web pages were authored by students in the author's seminar and turned into an online experience with the help of Swarthmore librarians. Due to the success of the project, a large update to the site was launched in May 2017 with all new student authors and topics discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430506","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97253279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"President's Page","authors":"Lynn Silipigni Connaway 2017 ASIS&T President","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>ASIS&amp;T president Lynn Silipigni Connaway attended the ASIS&amp;T Regional Meeting at OCLC on March 3, 2017. Special Interest Group/Information and Learning Sciences (SIG/ILS) has launched and will have a presence at the 2017 ASIS&amp;T Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from October 27 to November 1. In order to facilitate international attendees at the meeting, ASIS&amp;T will be offering visa support documents by request. A conference put together by the Asia Pacific, Taiwan and Europe chapters titled “ASIS&amp;T Presentation: Professional Organizations in Career Development” took place at the iConference in Wuhan, China, on March 24. The Board of Directors has approved a new marketing policy. The search for a new ASIS&amp;T executive director continues. Finally, a respected pioneer in the information science field, Dr. Eugene Garfield, passed away in February. A memorial and account of his life can be found in Inside ASIS&amp;T Reminders and on the ASIS&amp;T website.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137707540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}