Call for Participation
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Mar 02, 2010Call for Participation
Indiana University invites position papers for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored workshop, Campus Bridging Technologies, to be held April 7-8, 2010 at University Place Conference Center on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis. The deadline to submit position papers is March 8, 2010. This workshop will explore networking and data centric issues that currently challenge U.S. researchers and generate a set of recommendations for the identification and implementation of processes, tools, and solicitations to achieve better coordination of cyberinfrastructure. Improved coordination of cyberinfrastructure will serve to optimize innovation and discovery by the U.S. science and engineering communities.
Workshop organizers aim to produce a document of best practices in areas including but not limited to:- General process of bridging to national infrastructure
- Interoperable identification and authentication
- Dissemination and use of shared data collections
- Suggested policy documents for all research universities
- Identification of solicitations to support this work
The workshop will also explore specific suggestions to implement the recommendation made in the EDUCAUSE CCI/CASC report regarding adoption of a uniform authentication scheme for U.S. research (or at least that which is conducted at NSF facilities).
Workshop topics and outcomes are expected to be interesting and useful to the networking, engineering and science communities, with the following observations to be used as starting points for the discussion:
- The nation’s existing cyberinfrastructure – broadly considered – is not adequate to meet the needs of the current U.S. science and engineering community, nor adequate to foster the level and breadth of innovation that will be required to sustain U.S. competitiveness in the future.
- The proliferation of distributed devices (such as high throughput sequencers, gene expression readers, and time-of-flight mass spectrometers) that produce relatively large streams of data exacerbates the cyberinfrastructure problem and increases the gap between existing cyberinfrastructure and the nation’s needs.
- Simply stated, we are not using the existing cyberinfrastructure effectively or efficiently enough.
Workshop organizers seek position papers from the networking and scientific community. This process is intended to serve two purposes: to collect input from the community at-large, and to serve as an opportunity for individuals to indicate a desire to attend and participate in the workshop. A number of expert leaders in appropriate areas of network architecture, engineering, research, identity management are participating by invitation. Between 10 and 20 additional attendees will be invited on the basis of position papers submitted. Individuals submitting papers by March 1 may indicate that they would like to be considered for inclusion in the workshop.
Submission of position papers is open to the general community. Papers should be submitted via the workshop web page at http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/. Position papers must be limited to three pages.
Daphne Siefert-Herron
Manager of Strategic Initiatives
Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University
2719 E. 10th Street
Bloomington IN 47408
(812)856-1242 FAX (812)856-1537
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Feb 20, 2010Call for Participation
A Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit, organized by the US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) and other partners, will be held in Alexandria, VA on April 13-14, 2010.
About ADL:
In late 2003, the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) began initial work on learning content registries, yielding both the CORDRA model and the ADL-Registry (ADL-R). Numerous other organizations worldwide have undertaken similar modeling and registry work. The demand for discovery of, and access to, learning content and related learning materials continues. While progress on business drivers, policy issues, modeling, specifications, crossing organizational and community boundaries, and eliminating technical impediments have been made, problems in all areas still remain.
The purpose of the Summit is to bring together experienced leaders across the broad community to review past work and chart future activities. The Summit will coalesce thinking and understanding of current business drivers and requirements; the state of practice in registries and repositories for learning content; business, policy, and technical issues; and seek to build consensus on next steps and directions for the content repository/registry community.
Topics
- State of the practice in learning content repositories, including open source and commercial offerings, e.g., DSpace, e-Prints, Hive, IntraLibrary, Jorum, ORE and more
- State of the practice in learning content registries, ADL-Registry, Aspect, CORDRA, Globe, Global Registries Initiative
- Systemic initiatives in other domains, e.g., NSF DataNet, NSF NSDL, ANDS, Bamboo
- Registry Models, e.g., NISO 2146
- Standards and Specifications, e.g., IMS LODE, Metadata (LOM, DC, MLO), Repository Harvest and Publishing (OAI-PMH. OAI-ORE, APP, Sword), Query and Search (CQL, SRW/SRU, SPI, SQI), Vocabulary (XVD, VDEX, SKOS, ZTHES, CEF), Packaging (CP, CC,)
- Technical Issues, e.g., harvest/publish, search/discovery, multi-lingual support, content formats, metadata, identifiers, services, tracking/analytics, recommender systems, LMS/VLE/VW/EI integration
- Use and adoption of registries and repositories, e.g., uptake, impediments, business requirements
- Crosscutting
themes:
- Registry and Repository Analytics and Usage/Tracking Models
- Rights Management
- Identity and Access Control
- Policy Issues
Who Should Attend
- Government policy makers and program managers
- Registry and repository project teams
- e-Learning content producers and consumers
- Standards and specifications experts
Format
- Invited
panel discussions along with collaborative working/breakout sessions
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are no planned formal project or technical presentations
- Projects and initiatives are welcome to prepare posters describing their work
- Participants will be asked to prepare a 1-2 page white paper outlining their views on one or more of the summit topics
For more information or to express interest in attending, contact Dan Rehak at ADL.
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Feb 20, 2010Call for Participation
If you are going to the National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA) conference in Philadelphia from March 18-22, don't miss the opportunity to register for and attend SC-13: Making the Most of NSDL's Science Literacy Maps (short course). Presented by Ted Willard, of Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science, you'll come away with a keen understanding of the NSDL Science Literacy Maps, how they support the sequencing, teaching, and learning of benchmark conceptual knowledge within primary areas of instruction (e.g. the physical setting, the nature of science, the living environment, the nature of mathematics), as well as become attuned to common misconceptions that students often harbor about key concepts. This session will be well worth your time and effort!
Session Description:NSDL Science Literacy Maps are a tool teachers and students can use to find resources that relate to specific science and math concepts. The maps are based on the strand maps in The Atlas of Science Literacy and address topics such as biological evolution, weather and climate, chemical reactions, energy transformations, describing change, and materials science. The maps illustrate connections between concepts as well as how concepts build upon one another across grade levels. Clicking on a concept within the maps shows NSDL resources relevant to the concept, as well as information about related AAAS Project 2061 Benchmarks and the National Science Education Standards. In addition, information about research on common student misconceptions can be accessed from the maps. This short course will describe how science literacy maps are derived from national standards, let participants explore the connections between ideas on science literacy maps, and teach best practices in using the maps to improve the resource discovery process as well as the entire teaching and learning process. This Ticketed Event is $37 in advance; $42 on site. Session location: Doubletree Philadelphia, Area A/B.
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Jan 14, 2010Call for Participation
The NSDL is convening an NSDL Accessioning Board (NAB), and is seeking nominations for board members. The board is responsible for ensuring that collections meet the criteria prescribed by NSDL policy, and will review and approve collections for accessioning (acceptance) and deaccessioning (pruning). In accordance with the proposed revised NSDL Collections Policy, the board will be comprised of up to five (5) representative members of the NSDL and STEM education community - including educators and science librarians - who do not have explicit conflict of interest in NSDL collection or collection review activities. (Conflict of interest would apply to PIs and/or staff of projects that are current collection contributors to NSDL, including Pathways). Final membership of the NAB will be confirmed by the NSDL Pathways PIs, who are significant community stakeholders and representatives of NSDL.
The NAB will meet when necessary to review collections, and will report to the Director of the NSDL Resource Center (Kaye Howe). It is anticipated that board members will serve two-year terms, and demonstrate an interest, and have experience in, review of digital collections and resources. Members should also have an understanding of the use of digital materials in educational settings.
Interested parties may forward suggestions or self-nominate by emailing the following information to Karon Kelly, NSDL Technical Network Services: Name, organization, position title, contact information, statement of interest, statement or qualifications, or relevant experience in reviewing digital collections.
Nominations will be accepted through February 5, 2010.
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Jan 14, 2010Call for Participation
NSDL seeks community review and comment on two documents: an updated NSDL Collections Policy, and recommended Resource Quality Guidelines that outline best practices for resource selection and characterization. Both documents were developed by the NSDL Collections Task Force, following an extensive collections review process in 2009. They have undergone a review by the NSDL Pathways and are now available for community review on the NSDL Community site - you can add comments via the Policies & Documents Forum (login necessary).
If you haven't already created an account on the NSDL Community site, go to http://nsdlnetwork.org and select Sign In/Register on the homepage (upper right).
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Dec 03, 2009Call for Participation
If you haven't yet created an NSDL Community site account, take some time now that the Annual Meeting is concluded, and do so - check out the site, discussion forums, groups, Community News, etc. To subscribe to the updates you want to receive, contribute a news item, add a comment, or provide feedback on the Community site itself, you need to be an active Community site member. We want you!
Whether or not you were at the Annual Meeting in DC, NSDL is seeking community feedback on several documents released at or during the meeting:
- NSDL Strand Map Service Roadmap
- Draft NSDL Metrics Working Group report. Good input was received during the Metrics Working Group report session at the meeting, but here's your chance to peruse it with more leisure and suggest more kinds of metrics, tools, tips or resources, as this report is further developed as a best practices guideline for NSDL projects. To comment on, use either the Got Metrics? Working Group Forum, or the Metrics Interest Group (if you are a metrics geek and want to be more active and involved, check out the Group).
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Nov 02, 2009Call for Participation
We're extending the date! A reminder to all NSDL project PIs to post your Project Update to the NSDL Annual Meeting website by
Monday, November 16 - share your project's accomplishments with your colleagues and learn about other NSDL projects, new and established! -
Oct 29, 2009Call for Participation
The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce that five MCN 2009 sessions will be webcast live, free of charge. MCN 2009 takes place November 11th-14th, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. While we urge everyone who is interested to attend the conference in person as the only way to engage with its full array of workshops, sessions, events, exhibitors, and networking opportunities, we know that some are unable to do so because of especially acute funding issues this year. If you can't be with us at the conference, we hope these webcasts may enable you still to benefit from some of its knowledge sharing. If you find this useful, we encourage you to join MCN to help support these efforts for the wider community.
The webcasts will be on Thursday and Friday, November 12 and 13. We'll use Twitter to harvest online questions during Q&A in those sessions, which are:- Museum Data Exchange
- Tweets to Sweeten Collaborations for Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- Libraries, Archives, and Museums: From Collaboration to Convergence
- Ramping Up while Scaling Down: Strategic Innovation in Challenging Times
- 2009 Conference Roundup Roundtable
Find more information at http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2009online
Short URL http://bit.ly/mcn09oL leads to the same page.
Please plan to join us online even if you can't join us onsite!
Rob Lancefield
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Oct 21, 2009Call for Participation
All NSDL projects (Pathways, Targeted Research, Services, etc) are encouraged to submit a Project Update on the Annual Meeting website by November 10 - select Project Updates from the lefthand navigation menu on the Annual Meeting website. Let your colleagues know about your project's accomplishments in the last year, and help us have as broad a representation as possible from among NSDL projects.
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Sep 26, 2009Call for Participation
Update: The Museum Computer Network Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce its eight scholarship winners for 2009. Each scholarship provides free registration to the MCN annual conference in Portland, Oregon, free hotel stay, and a small stipend to help cover additional expenses. MCN received nearly 90 stellar applications in 2009 - twice as many as last year - making the selection process even more challenging! Congratulations to:
- Kathy Amoroso, Director of Digital Projects, Maine Historical Society
- Dr. Tatyana Bogomazova, Chief of the IT Department, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Tiah Edmundson-Morton, Reference, Instruction, and Outreach Archivist, Oregon State University Archives
- Alyssa Glass, Web Producer at Adobe Systems and museum studies graduate student at JFK University
- David Lockwood, Museums Manager, Dumfries and Galloway Museum Service (Scotland)
- Emily Pfotenhauer, Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin Heritage Online
- Sivia Sadofsky, Technology Program Manager, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
- Andrea Thomer, Lead Excavator, George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
The Museum Computer Network conference is November 11-14 in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit http://www.mcn.edu
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!
Doubletree Hotel - Lloyd Center
Wednesday-Saturday, November 11th-14th, 2009
Conference Schedule
This year's conference begins on Wednesday, November 11th with a broad range of workshops. All workshops are half-day and capacity is limited, so
please register early!
We hope everyone will plan to join us for the full conference program, Wednesday through Saturday, at the same conference rate as last year. Save now! The Earlybird Registration Deadline is Friday, October 9, 2009.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES
MCN Members Earlybird: $425.00 | Regular: $475.00
Non-Members Earlybird: $500.00 | Regular: $550.00
Emerging Professional/Student Members Earlybird: $200.00 | Regular: $250.00
Daily (members and non-members) Earlybird: $250.00 | Regular: $250.00
Guest Registration Earlybird: $105.00 | Regular: $105.00
Half-Day Workshop Fee: $50.00
Conference Speaker Discount: $50.00
Small Museum Discount: $200.00
Please see website re: ability to combine certain rates and discounts.
CONFERENCE HOTEL - DOUBLETREE
The conference hotel is just blocks from the Oregon Convention Center, the Rose Garden Arena, and Portland's Memorial Coliseum.
In order to keep costs down, we encourage attendees to reserve accommodations at the conference hotel. We have arranged a Special MCN
Conference Rate of $139 or $159 per night single or double occupancy valid for Wednesday, November 11th through Sunday, November 15th. This
special rate is valid through Tuesday, October 13th.
Visit http://www.mcn.edu/conferences for the full schedule of registration rates and discounts, the conference program, and hotel & travel information.