ASIS&T Conference 2014
ILS faculty, staff, students, and other IU colleagues were active at the 77th Annual Meeting of ASIS&T. Their names are bolded below. This annual conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology was held in Seattle from October 31 to November 5, 2014. Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum were members of the program committee for the conference, and were co-chairs of the panels committee. And, the ASIS&T Student Chapter at IU Bloomington won 2nd place for Student Chapter Membership.
Alumni Reception:
- Held on Tuesday evening, November 4, the ILS alumni reception was attended by a number of recent Ph.D. graduates.
Awards:
- Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum received the SIG Publication of the Year Award for their 2014 edited book: Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future.
Panels:
- Social Informatics and Social Media: Theoretical Reflections
Organizers: Noriko Hara and Pnina Fichman
Panel Members: Howard Rosenbaum, Kenneth R. Fleischmann (Univ.Texas at Austin), Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi (Univ. North Carolina), Brian Butler (Univ. Maryland) - Informational and Media Failures and Potential Successes
Panel Members: John Budd (Univ. Missouri-Columbia), Lai Ma (ILS - Ph.D. alumna - now at the Univ. College, Dublin), Ronald E. Day, and Siobhan Stevenson (Univ. Toronto)
Papers:
- Citation Role Labeling via Local, Pairwise, and Global Features
Chun Guo (ILS doctoral student), Yingying Yu, Azadeh Sanjari (recent MIS graduate), Xiaozhong Liu - Where does all the Data Go: Quantifying the Final Disposition of Research Data
Stacy T. Kowalczyk (ILS - Ph.D. alumna - now at Dominican University)
Posters:
- Scaffolding of Scientific Publications with Open Education Resources (OER)
Joanna Landrum (recent MIS graduate), Noriko Hara and Xiaozhong Liu, all of Indiana University; LIangcai Gao, Peking University, China; and Zhuoren Jiang, Dalian Maritime University, China - Mobile Application Life Cycle Charaterization via Apple App Store Rank
Han Jia (recent MIS graduate), Chun Guo and Xiaozhong Liu, all of Indiana University Bloomington - Explicit Semantic Path Mining via Wikipedia Knowledge Tree
Tian Renmin University of China, China; and Miao Chen and Xiaozhong Liu, both of Indiana University Bloomington
Symposiums:
- The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures
Organizers: Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum - ASIS&T Doctoral Symposium
Organizers: Barbara Wildemuth (UNC) and Howard Rosenbaum
Mentor: Pnina Fichman
Workshops:
- Metrics 2014: Workshop of Informetric and Scientometric Research (SIG/MET)
Cassidy Sugimoto served as one of the organizers.