Dispatches from ASIS&T – Panel on the Temporal Dimension of Knowledge Bases

“The Temporal Dimension in the Study of Knowledge Bases: Approaches to Understanding Knowledge Creation and Representation Over Time” Melissa Adler, University of Kentucky Corinne Rogers, University of British Columbia Stasa Milojevic, University of Bloomington Jevin West, University of Washington This panel addressed means of exploring change over time in information repositories. The participants all demonstrated […]

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Dispatches from ASIS&T – Panel on Social Tagging and Reader’s Advisory

“Beyond the Playlist: Looking at User-Generated Collocation of Cultural Products through Social Tagging” Nadine Desrochers, University of Montreal Audrey Laplante, University of Montreal Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Western Ontario Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario Diane Rasmussen Pennington, University of Western Ontario Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University The panel consisted of several collaborators working on the […]

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Dispatches from ASIS&T – Panel on Community Metadata

“Spanning Boundaries and Disciplines: Linked, Open, and Cloud-Based Community Metadata” Erik Mitchell and Kanti Srikantiaiah, University of Maryland Susan Rathbun-Grubb, University of South Carolina Heather Lea Moulaison, University of Missouri Jane Greenberg, UNC-Chapel Hill Broadly speaking, this session dealt with initiatives to understand and undertake community metadata projects. Although we can’t capture all of the […]

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Dispatches from ASIS&T – Keynote Address

The ASIS&T Annual Meeting opened with a great talk from Jose Garcia, a B.I. and data management specialist at TEC (Technology Evaluation Centers) in Montreal. He discussed the stages of technology creation and adoption: Abstraction: creating an abstract model for the transmittion of information, including innovations like cloud computing that model personal information storage on […]

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InfoCamp Recap

Hello ASIS&Ters! In case you didn’t get a chance to attend InfoCamp, here is a short recap of what was covered and who was there (sorry it’s a little late – we’re all students, too!). Joan Vermette, User Experience Designer at Mad*Pow in Boston, kicked off InfoCamp with a fascinating talk about Organizational Parkour. The […]

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Meeting Minutes – 9/10

Agenda iFair Template in sharepoint Content: Quin-fold handbill thingy (ASIST document > 2010-2011 materials > General promo) Contest: Like the Facebook page or follow us on Twitter before including their submission Who is the next president of ASIS&T? 1st: membership in ASIST 2nd: business cards 3rd: two InfoCamp passes business cards: still 250, same layout […]

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Meeting Minutes – 8/27

InfoCamp Al will email Isaac about what to do Speaker series Taxonomist: Isaac Pattis Metadata Specialist: IA/Content Strategist: How is the degree applicable? What did you have to teach yourself? How do you make the leap from MLIS student to practicing professional? We’d like people to come talk about what they do every day (and […]

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