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{"title":"ASIS&T 2017 | 80th Annual Meeting: Diversity of Engagement Tapped as Theme of Milestone Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reflecting on its history in the fields of information science and technology, ASIS&amp;T leaders found the perfect theme for its milestone 80^th Annual Meeting: <i>Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds</i>. This theme will help focus presenters and attendees 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. From October 27-November 1, 2017, ASIS&amp;T will celebrate its achievements, goals and challenges in suburban Washington, DC.</p><p>The ASIS&amp;T Annual Meeting is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. Paper, visual presentation, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the conference theme, as well as the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome. The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&amp;T's many special interest groups (SIGs).</p><p>At this milestone meeting, participants will address the opportunities and challenges of navigating through physical and digital/virtual realm with computers, tablets or smartphones to interact in work and everyday activities. Within this information environment, there also are those who choose to disengage and those who have no access to or knowledge of technology, widening the digital divide. ASIS&amp;T 2017 will provide an interactive platform for exploration of these complex and rapidly changing technological and socio-cultural developments.</p><p>Conference chairs for the ASIS&amp;T 80^th Annual Meeting are <b>Naresh Agarwal</b>, Simmons College (<span>[email protected]</span>), and <b>Sanda Erdelez</b>, University of Missouri (<span>[email protected]</span>). A special advisory group for the 80^th Annual Meeting will assist the conference chairs with the particular task of planning 90-minute invited sessions. Members of the advisory committee are <b>Kathryn La Barre</b>, <b>Michael Buckland</b>, <b>Toni Carbo</b>, <b>Ken Herold</b>, <b>Tatjana Aparac</b>, <b>Javed Mostafa</b>, <b>Dania Bilal</b> and <b>Nouf Khashman</b>.</p><p>The 80^th Annual Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in suburban Washington, DC. But long before the meeting is convened, planning work is underway. Many of the deadlines are rapidly approaching. Submissions are now being accepted with the following deadlines:</p><p><i","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/bul2.2017.1720430403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137707542","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":"University Metadata and Retrieval: The Death of the Library Catalog?","authors":"Ying-Hsang Liu","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430404","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430404","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Controlled vocabularies or languages are widely used in the field of information retrieval, but questions of whether they are necessary or more effective than free text searching have been unanswered. With the widespread use of free text searching in popular search engines, many in the information retrieval field have wondered how to make controlled vocabularies more useful or effective. Recent studies on this subject have revealed that while controlled vocabularies can produce more precise search results, user characteristics can potentially match those results in the right environment. These studies included a multitude of users from different backgrounds with different search environments. Some of the most important findings of these studies demonstrate that the skill of users and indexers can affect search outcomes just as much as controlled vocabularies.</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/bul2.2017.1720430404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"94211259","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/bul2.2017.1720430401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There are five feature articles in this issue: one addresses the utility of controlled vocabularies in information retrieval (IR); two concern aspects of information policy; and two consider the creation of knowledge amid the flood of raw data in our digital world. Big data and its management are, at the least, secondary themes in three of the articles and one of our regular columns.</p><p><b>Ying-Hsang Liu</b>, Charles Sturt University, reviews both older and more recent experiments comparing retrieval from uncontrolled vocabularies with retrieval from controlled indexing or indexing that includes controlled vocabulary.</p><p>In “The Government That Mexicans Deserve: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Divide” <b>Manuel De Tuya and Monica Schurr</b>, State University of New York, Albany look at the role of information access in fostering civil society, while <b>Lindsey M. Harper and Shannon M. Oltmann</b> from the University of Kentucky consider another aspect of information policy in “Big Data's Impact on Privacy for Librarians and Information Professionals.”</p><p>From the rather specific problem of big data and privacy we turn to the more general problems of knowledge creation. In “Consume, Reproduce, Extend and Connect: Sustaining Our Research Lifecycle,” <b>Richard P. Johnson</b> reviews the research life cycle, the role of reproducibility in validating scientific results and the role of data curation in enabling such efforts. Sociologist Steven Fuller, on the other hand, is even more generally concerned with how information and knowledge have been and are created. <b>Kirsty Pitkin</b> of TConsult reports on his talk at the University of Warwick on November 16, 2016, which was an ASIS&amp;T Annual Lecture.</p><p>Picking up again on the theme “Data Science and Libraries,” in the <b>RDAP Review</b> Matt Burton and Liz Lyon from the University of Pittsburgh discuss offerings that are designed to help librarians and library managers bridge the skills gap between those usually acquired in M.L.S programs and those necessary to becoming data curators.</p><p>As indexing is a part of metadata, we can also say that we partly revisit the theme of the first article (Liu) in Laura Creekmore's <b>IA Column</b>, which highly recommends Michael Andrew's new book, <i>Metadata Basics for Web Content: The Unification of Structured Data and Content</i> (Amazon Digital Services, 2017), to all IA practitioners.</p><p>On the <b>President's Page</b>, ASIS&amp;T 2017 president Lynn Silipigni Connaway reports on many recent and upcoming Association events and also, among other items of interest, on the establishment of the new Special Interest Group/Information and Learning Sciences (SIG/ILS), a new marketing policy approved by the Board, arrangements to facilitate visas for attendees traveling to the 2017 Annual Meeting from outside the United States and the process and timetable for the selection of the new ASIS&amp;T executive director.</p><p>And final","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/bul2.2017.1720430401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137707541","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 Lecture at Napier University","authors":"Kirsty Pitkin","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430408","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430408","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>In the modern age of the internet, computers and smartphones, we have access to incredible amounts of information. However, often what we seek from this information is knowledge, which can be expressed as raw information that has been reproduced and curated. Professor Steve Fuller discussed this divide at the 2016 ASIS&amp;T Annual Lecture at Napier University on November 30. Fuller discusses the idea that raw information must be curated and edited in order to express actual knowledge, but in the act of reproducing the information for this purpose, data can become distorted and omitted. Fuller cites Wikileaks as a source of raw information that was handed to media outlets to edit and present as knowledge. Wikipedia is another domain that has become one of the most cited centers of knowledge, but allows anyone to curate information and remains unstudied as a whole.</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/bul2.2017.1720430408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"112882092","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":"Big Data's Impact on Privacy for Librarians and Information Professionals","authors":"Lindsey M. Harper,&nbsp;Shannon M. Oltmann Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430406","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430406","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>In a digital age, it is very difficult to maintain complete privacy when posting on social media or making purchases. Individual activity on the internet is increasingly collected by corporations, even with the user's knowledge, and can be used to predict future behavior, purchasing choices or other sensitive subjects. This data analysis is often done without a user's consent and in many cases presents unethical behavior and breaches of privacy. In the world of libraries, the privacy of patrons has been tantamount for decades, but trying to keep up with privacy codes and still make use of this big data can be challenging for librarians. Big data can be beneficial to libraries in many ways, and if pointed at library systems, rather than the habits of patrons, can also keep privacy intact.</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/bul2.2017.1720430406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"111259908","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":"Even Better Than the Basics on Metadata","authors":"Laura Creekmore","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430410","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430410","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Metadata, taxonomies and other similar structures are essential in information architecture today, but often take a long time to fully understand. Metadata is especially misunderstood by many, considering its beginnings as a very technical discipline. For those looking to broaden their knowledge on metadata, Michael C. Andrews' book, <i>Metadata Basics for Web Content: The Unification of Structured Data and Content</i>, is an excellent resource. Despite the title, the book covers the basics of metadata and then goes a step further to explain relationships and present actual use cases. Andrews also defines the terms he is using early on in the book, so that professionals from all areas of information architecture can understand his meaning, even with terms that take on many meanings in the industry.</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/bul2.2017.1720430410","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97399702","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":"Data Science in Libraries","authors":"Matt Burton,&nbsp;Liz Lyon","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430409","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430409","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>The new field of data science involves advanced knowledge in statistics and computer science, combined with copious amounts of data. A report from the Big Data and Research Initiative under the Obama Administration, <i>The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan</i>, calls attention to the roles that librarians will play in the future of data science. However, there are skills and management gaps librarians face that inhibit their ability to move forward in data science. A number of educational programs are now offered to remedy this problem, such as the Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians from North Carolina State University, the volunteer-led Library Carpentry program, and most recently, the Data Sciences in Libraries Project, funded by the IMLS. This project aims to get librarians and library managers together to discuss the world of data science and create a roadmap for strategic planning.</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/bul2.2017.1720430409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"105779754","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":"The Government That Mexicans Deserve: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Divide","authors":"Manuel De Tuya,&nbsp;Monica Schurr","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430405","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430405","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Mexico's political history has seen several parties rise and fall in the 21st century, and amidst the many transitions, the Mexican people have seen a divide growing in their society. This divide covers many areas, such as economic standing, access to healthcare and education, and access to digital technology. The digital divide means that access to internet service and smartphones is often limited to the affluent. However, access to technology is just one aspect of the digital divide. Citizens also require training and education in how to use the technology and where to access information. Currently, the vast majority of internet users in Mexico are 24 years of age and younger, meaning that older generations need the access and education in technology use. With more Mexican citizens given access to technology, more can actively participate in government and create a government that they deserve.</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/bul2.2017.1720430405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"96191009","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":"Consume, Reproduce, Extend and Connect: Sustaining Our Research Lifecycle","authors":"Richard P. Johnson","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430407","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430407","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Scholarly research is at the forefront of innovation, especially with a breadth of new technologies that can enhance the research process. However, in a race for scholars to produce more and more new findings, documentation practices and reproduction of results may be neglected. Lack of validation through reproduction can lead to a general distrust of scholarly research and experiments, but a more generous approach to information sharing could be the answer to this issue. Scholars have connected socially for centuries to share their ideas, and this practice has led to some truly innovative ideas that have shaped our world today. With willing participants sharing their ideas and their research methods, new findings can be reproduced and validated, creating a stronger and more trustworthy community of scholars.</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/bul2.2017.1720430407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"93905472","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":"Bridging the Telepresence Valley: Greg Welch Speaks","authors":"Steve Hardin","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430313","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430313","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\u0000 <p>Greg Welch, chair of healthcare simulation at University of Central Florida, spoke at the 2016 ASIS&amp;T Annual Meeting as the first plenary speaker. He discussed the meaning of a <i>telepresence valley</i>, which is the gap between people in a situation where telepresence is involved. Welch noted that telepresence is markedly different from telecollaboration and, in an ideal telepresence situation, people from different remote locations can feel they are together in one common location. One telepresence application, TLE TeachLivE, is a simulated classroom that allows teachers to improve their skills in interacting with students. TLE simulates avatar students that react to the teacher, thus giving realistic feedback in real time. Welch also discussed applications in the healthcare industry, such as a touch-sensitive mannequin head that Welch and his team are developing to react to the actions of a provider.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97606162","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}