SIG-IEP Webinar
Description: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999? Decision: Approved with comments Comments: This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation. However, the following revisions are suggested:
Description: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes: Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244? Vote: No comments.
Description: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices…
Description: ISO/TS 22943:2022, Information and documentation – Principles of identification, presents the foundational rationale behind the existence and use of identifiers. It provides a consistent framework for structuring and understanding identifiers in both trade and information management contexts. The standard outlines core expectations, characteristics, and the broader business case for identifiers, while also acknowledging that…
ASIS&T will use this space to share information with our current and future members about the plans for and process of merger with the Special Libraries Association. A working group consisting of Heather Kotula, 2025 SLA President-Elect; John DiGilio, 2025 SLA Past President; Christine Pelosi, SLA Director; Julie Smith Maekask, SLA Director; James Manasco, SLA Director; Ian…
Description: Part 1 of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval, applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, management and use applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources, irrespective of the…
Application Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025 Notification of Award Winners: late August or September 2025 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: 14-18 November, 2025, Washington, DC Application: NEASIST 2025 Conference Support Award application NEASIS&T Conference Support Award The Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T is offering up to 4 conference support awards to support participation in the ASIS&T 2025…
NEASIS&T has planned an exciting summer webinar, presented by Jon Ippolito, exploring how libraries and digital collections are grappling with a surge in AI-generated submissions. When: August 7, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EDT) Where: Virtual Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $25 for non-members Register for the event (ASIS&T members should log in before…
The Australian band Crowded House had a famous song, ‘Always Take the Weather With You’. To be honest, I wish they would take the weather as it’s raining again in Glasgow. So many news stories now are around weather: floods, droughts, heat waves, and loss of natural habitats. Climate action is one of the Grand…
ASIS&T Executive Director, Lydia Middleton has recorded a video sharing updates about the organization. Captions are available by clicking “cc”. Please note that these captions are auto-generated so may not be 100% accurate. Back to Inside ASIS&T, July 2025
Postdoctoral Social Computing Research Fellow, NYU
The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher as a Social Computing Research Fellow. Review of applications will begin February 28th. Fellows conduct foundational research into the relationships between information technologies and society as part of the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing.…
January 2014 newsletter
The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Social Informatics Summary of Winter 2014 activities and upcoming conferences related to Social Informatics Conferences, symposiums and workshops Upcoming CHI 2014 Workshop on Values & Design in HCI Education, Toronto, Canada, April 27, 2014. http://www.nyu.edu/pages/projects/nissenbaum/vid/chi2014.html. How do we teach future engineers, designers, and citizens to understand values issues that arise…
Student internships at Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Attention students at all levels! The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA has issued a call for applications for student interns for the summer semester. Applications are due by February 16th for full-time (35 hours per week) internships taking place from June 2nd to August 8th, 2014. Prospective interns should be passionate about the promise of…
CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data, AMCIS 2014
20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 DESCRIPTION: Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note “big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production … much of modern economic activity simply couldn’t take place without it.” An emerging…
ASIS&T 2014 Call for Proposals
The call for proposals for the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting has been posted. ASIS&T 2014 will take place in Seattle, WA October 31 – November 4, 2014, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. This year’s theme is “Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities.” The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and…
CFP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR), AMCIS 2014
A call for papers has been distributed for the Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR) mini-track at AMCIS 2014, the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, to take place in Savannah, GA August 7-10, 2014. Full papers are due March 1, 2014. The mini-track is …interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study…
ESC Video Science Contest 2014
Votings are welcome from 23. April till 05. May 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Format: If you like to submit a short video to the ESC Contest please be aware that your movie file format will be one of the following: MOV MPEG4 AVI WMV MPEGPS FLV 3GPP WebM Video length: The video should not exceed five and not be…
CFP: ISIC 2014: The Information Behavior Conference
A call for papers and posters has been posted for ISIC 2014: The Information Behavior Conference, to be held in Leeds, UK September 2-5, 2014. Papers and posters are due by February 15, 2014. The call requests papers that address “issues of common [disciplinary] interest”, focusing on the “relationship between the needs or requirements of the information user, the means for…
CFP: Theorizing the Web, 2014
A call for paper proposals is now available for the 2014 edition of the Theorizing the Webconference, to be held in Brooklyn, NY April 25-26, 2014. Abstracts of proposals are due by January 19th, 2014. We invite you to propose a presentation for the fourth annual Theorizing the Web, which—by popular demand—is now a two-day event. Theorizing the Web is both…
CFP: “The Democratization of Hacking and Making” – New Media & Society special issue
A call for paper proposals has been issued for a special issue of New Media and Society on the topic of “The Democratization of Hacking and Making.” Abstract proposals are due by May 1, 2014. The issue will explore and question the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions…
ISO/DIS 999 – Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes
Description: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999? Decision: Approved with comments Comments: This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation. However, the following revisions are suggested:
ISO/CD 25244 – Archives Performance Indicators
Description: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes: Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244? Vote: No comments.
Systematic Review – ISO 30300:2020, Records Management – Core Concepts and Vocabulary
Description: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices…
ISO/TS 22943:2022 – Principles of Identification for Trade and Information Management
Description: ISO/TS 22943:2022, Information and documentation – Principles of identification, presents the foundational rationale behind the existence and use of identifiers. It provides a consistent framework for structuring and understanding identifiers in both trade and information management contexts. The standard outlines core expectations, characteristics, and the broader business case for identifiers, while also acknowledging that…
SLA Merger Information
ASIS&T will use this space to share information with our current and future members about the plans for and process of merger with the Special Libraries Association. A working group consisting of Heather Kotula, 2025 SLA President-Elect; John DiGilio, 2025 SLA Past President; Christine Pelosi, SLA Director; Julie Smith Maekask, SLA Director; James Manasco, SLA Director; Ian…
ISO/DIS 25964-1, Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval; management and use
Description: Part 1 of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval, applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, management and use applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources, irrespective of the…
2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award for ASIS&T Annual Meeting – Apply by Aug. 4
Application Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025 Notification of Award Winners: late August or September 2025 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: 14-18 November, 2025, Washington, DC Application: NEASIST 2025 Conference Support Award application NEASIS&T Conference Support Award The Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T is offering up to 4 conference support awards to support participation in the ASIS&T 2025…
Webinar: Who Even Wrote This? Welcome to the Post-AI Library – August 7 webinar
NEASIS&T has planned an exciting summer webinar, presented by Jon Ippolito, exploring how libraries and digital collections are grappling with a surge in AI-generated submissions. When: August 7, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EDT) Where: Virtual Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $25 for non-members Register for the event (ASIS&T members should log in before…
President’s Message, July 2025
The Australian band Crowded House had a famous song, ‘Always Take the Weather With You’. To be honest, I wish they would take the weather as it’s raining again in Glasgow. So many news stories now are around weather: floods, droughts, heat waves, and loss of natural habitats. Climate action is one of the Grand…
From Your Executive Director, July 2025
ASIS&T Executive Director, Lydia Middleton has recorded a video sharing updates about the organization. Captions are available by clicking “cc”. Please note that these captions are auto-generated so may not be 100% accurate. Back to Inside ASIS&T, July 2025
SIG-IEP Webinar
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