Call for Paper: 8th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2013

The 8th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology (COINFO 2013) is organized by China’s national research agency, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), in collaboration with Wuhan University and renowned colleges and universities from around the world.
The COINFO 2013 theme is Sharing of Information Resources in the Era of Big Data. Along with the fast development of Internet and Internet of Things (IOT), Big Data technologies are already operating behind the scene delivering benefit to many organisations through massive power for data analysis. The impacts are still unknown, but the capacity to analyse trends including individual consumer behaviour are both exciting and daunting. It will be critical to identify and manage issues so that we can enjoy the many benefits of Big Data; issues to be explored include:
● The challenge to management in the era of Big Data
● Automated decision-making – is there more or less potential for another global financial melt-down driven by decision-making software
● Social impacts – privacy/security
● How to release results of data analysis that might have impacts on individuals and groups
● How to successfully adopt and how to equip managers to realize the benefits of Big Data
Now in its 8th year COINFO is one of the most influential forums in China and attracts senior officials and industry leaders as well as experts from Germany, UK, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Sweden, USA and China. It has now become a high-end international platform for academic exchanges in information sharing. We invite researchers and management scientists to submit quality research and discussion papers and attend this important and influential event.

I. Topics for Essays Wanted                                 

Topic 1. Public Sharing and Assessment of Sci-Tech Information Resources
(1) Basic theories on the sharing of sci-tech information resources
(2) Laws, regulations and standards of the sharing of sci-tech information resources
(3) Theories and practices of the public sharing of sci-tech information resources
(4) The construction of sci-tech report system and its sharing mechanism
(5) Efficiency of sharing sci-tech information resources
(6) Analyses of user need for sci-tech information resources
(7) Open access publishing of sci-tech information resources

Topic 2. Value-Added Exploitation and Service Innovation of Sci-Tech Information Resources
(1) Analyses and services of big data and innovative sci-tech information resources
(2) Value-added exploitations of sci-tech information resources
(3) Public sharing and services of scientific instruments and apparatus
(4) Cooperative sharing of experimental research establishments
(5) Exploitation and utilization of sci-tech talent resources
(6) Exploitation and utilization of sci-tech information resources oriented for national strategies
(7) Case studies of public sharing of sci-tech information resources

Topic 3. Intellectual Property Management in Scientific Projects
(1) Management and system development of intellectual property information
(2) Analysis, exploitation and utilization of intellectual property information
(3) Intellectual property management in research institutions
(4) Intellectual property management in colleges and universities
(5) Intellectual property management in scientific projects
(6) Intellectual property management in enterprises

Topic 4. Management, Opening and Sharing of Scientific Data
(1) Policies and modes of scientific data sharing
(2) Application of big data theories in scientific data sharing
(4) Integration and application of multi-source data
(5) Analysis and exploitation of scientific data
(6) Tools, technologies and methods of scientific data sharing
(7) Theories, tools, technologies and methods of scientific data management

Topic 5. Information Quality and Data Governance
(1) Governance of big data
(2)Information/data quality strategy, tool and evaluation
(3)Information/data quality and cost/benefit analysis
(4)Information/data quality in electronic services
(5) Quality control of master/meta data
(6) Best practices and successful cases

Topic 6. Open Access for Information on Sci-Tech Achievements and Transformation of Sci-Tech Achievements
(1) Sharing policies and transformation of sci-tech achievements funded by public finances
(2) Database construction and value-added services of sci-tech achievements
(3) Cooperative innovation and transformation of sci-tech achievements
(4) Information access and transformation mechanism of sci-tech achievements in the environment of e-science
(5) Cases of sci-tech achievement transformation

Topic 7. Technology and method for semantic information organization and retrieval
(1)Ontology，visualization, metadata
(2) Organization and retrieval of small granularity  information
(3)Automatic Extraction and mining of information
(4)Multi-source data association and integration
(5)Application and semi-automatic architecture for Chinese ontology engineering
(6)Semantic inference
(7)Semantic information extraction, processing, organization and representation

II. Requirements for Thesis and Submission Methods           
All submissions will be double-blind reviewed by independent reviewers on a rolling basis. Authors are required to use the templates provided on COINFO 2013 website (http://coinfo.istic.ac.cn/coinfo13/ ) and strictly follow the Instructions for Preparing Manuscripts. Paper submission, generally no more than 6 pages, should be made in Microsoft Word format and converted to PDF, and submitted through the COINFO 2013 website ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences /?conf=coinfo2013 ).

III. Publication of Conference Proceedings                    
According to the evaluation opinions given by experts, all accepted essays will be published by an internationally renowned publisher in the form of conference proceedings. Such conference proceedings shall be sent to EI and/or ISTP for retrieval. Each accepted essay shall be collected an essay registration fee at RMB 2,500 before being published. Excellent essays will be recommended to China Information Review (the core journal of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China) for publication. The conference proceedings of COINFO 09 have been cited by EI and ISTP; the conference proceedings of COINFO 10 have been cited by ISTP.

IV. Conference Fee                                        
Each attendee shall pay a conference fee of RMB 1,500 (which covers conference affairs and materials; the rate for student attendees shall be RMB 800). Where the essay registration fee is paid prior to the deadline for essay registration, for each essay, only one author can be exempted from the conference fee. Travel expenses and food & accommodation costs shall be borne by the attendees.

V. Important Dates                                      
(1)Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2013
(2) Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2013
(3)Final paper submission deadline: August 31, 2013
(4) Author registration deadline: August 31, 2013
(5) Deadline for conference registration: September 30, 2013
(6) Date of conference convening: October 25-27, 2013

For more information, please contact Organizing Committee.
Please visit COINFO 2013 website（http://coinfo.istic.ac.cn/coinfo13/ ）
Contact way of Organizing Committee：
Address: Resource Sharing Promotion Centre of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China（No.15, Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing City）
Postal code: 100038             E-mail: coinfo@istic.ac.cn

Shanghai Law Library Conference (CAFLL): June 2013

Register for the Third International Conference of the

Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)

Shanghai, China, June 10 – 12, 2013

This third international conference will be held in one of the world’s most dynamic, cosmopolitan and global cities - Shanghai, China.  The East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) will be our hosts for the conference.  The venue for the meeting will be the beautiful Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/shabz-renaissance-shanghai-zhongshan-park-hotel/. 

With the conference theme of Collaboration: Information, Access, and Partnership, law librarians and legal information professionals will have the opportunity to share experiences and exchange views about legal information access, development, and management in both the United States and China. 

Conference topics:

•  Application of New Technology in Legal Information Services
• New Trends and Concepts in Law Library Services
• International Legal Information Resources Sharing and Cooperation in China and the US
• Subject-oriented Legal Information Services
• Public Access to Legal Information in China and the US
• Requirements for Librarians in Legal Information Services

Conference Dates:

·         Monday, June 10, 2013: Registration for American participants

·         Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - Wednesday, June 12, 2013: Conference

Meeting Registration Rate:

• $450: Non-members
• $300: Individual members
• $300: Institutional members (this rate applies to registrations for up to two individuals from member institutions; e.g., $300 X 2 individuals = $600)

Deadlines:

Conference registration: April 1, 2013

Hotel accommodations (to assure room availability): February 28, 2013

http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/

Sponsored by:

• Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
• International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)
• China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL)
• East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL)
• Tongji University School of Law
• Other prominent law schools in China 

 Previous conferences were held in Beijing (2009) and Philadelphia (2011):

http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/.  For a CAFLL membership, see: http://cafllnet.org/membership/.  More information on CAFLL is available at: http://cafllnet.org/. 

Chinese American Law Library Forum (CAFLL 2013)

Announcing

The Third International Conference of the

Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)

Shanghai, China, June 10 – 12, 2013

This third international conference is sponsored by the Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL), a non-profit U.S. organization, in conjunction with a similar organization in China represented by the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL); East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL); Tongji University School of Law; and other prominent law schools in China.  The host for this conference is ECUPL, located in Shanghai, China.  The venue for the meeting will be the Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/shabz-renaissance-shanghai-zhongshan-park-hotel/. 

The Conference will be an opportunity for law librarians and legal information professionals to share experiences and exchange views about legal information access and development and law library management in both the United States and China.  The theme of the conference is Collaboration: Information, Access, and Partnership.  Topics will include public access to legal information, digital technology in libraries, internationalization of shared legal information, and more. 

Registration information will soon be available at: http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/. 

Previous successful international conferences were held in Beijing (2009) with sponsorship from CAFLL, AALL and IALL and Philadelphia (2011) with sponsorship from CAFLL and AALL: http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/. Speaker materials from the Philadelphia Conference are available at: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/library/cafll/presentationhandouts.pdf.

China-Japan-Korea Library Conference

Call for presentations

4th China-Japan-Korea Library and Information Science Conference

November 30-December 1, 2012, Busan, Korea

 

Theme: Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends

The Fourth China-Japan-Korea(CJK) Library and Information Science Conference organized by the  School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China, College of Knowledge and Library Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies of Pusan National University will take place in Busan, Korea during November 30-December 1, 2012

The main theme of the Symposium this year is “Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends”.  The CJK Conference aims to bring together both researchers and information professionals to discuss the implications of various issues in library and information science.

Paper submission

Research papers must be written in English.  Presentations should be made in English, and will be limited to approximately 30 minutes plus 10-minute Q & A.  Either full paper or PowerPoint slides are to be accepted as a final draft and be included in the conference proceeding.  However, Presentation should be accompanied by PowerPoint slides.

Submit your proposal(up to 5 pages, doc, docx, pdf’s only) to the department email: july75@pnu.edu by 15th October 2012.  The submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee.  Authors will be contacted by 25th October 2012

Key Dates

Research proposal/Abstract submission: 15th October 2012.

Notification of acceptance: 25nd October 2012.

Final paper or PPT slides: 23^rd November, 2012

Venue

The Conference will be held at Induk Hall located in Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. Accommodations for all presenters and commentators will be provided by the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies, Pusan National University

For more information please visit the conference site at

http://info.lib.pusan.ac.kr/

With kind regards,

Soo-Sang Lee, Chairman

Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies

Pusan National University

Busan, 609-735, Korea

Tel: +82-51-510-2139

sslee@pnu.edu

Four East Asia-related Films (FYI)

Lucy Ostrander of Stourwater Pictures, a film producer in the Seattle area, has contacted me with information about her East Asia-related films, and requested that I pass on the information to East Asian librarians.  Below are short descriptions of four of her films, with links, FYI.

Rob Britt

Coordinator of East Asian Library Services

University of Washington

Gallagher Law Library

East Asian Law Department
rrbritt@uw.edu
Phone: 206-543-7447

Four East Asia-related Films Produced by Lucy Ostrander

The Revolutionary

Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI Chinese language expert at the end of World War II. Discharged there, he joined the Chinese Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution and its aftermath. An intimate of the Party's leadership, including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he gained prominence at the Broadcast Administration, one of the most important agencies of government. But in the convulsions of a giant country constantly reinventing itself, he twice ran afoul of the leadership, and served a total of 16 years in solitary confinement. He returned to the United States in 1980. THE REVOLUTIONARY is an intimate, unflinching account of Sidney Rittenberg's journey through the 20th century's biggest revolution. Produced by Stourwater Pictures, this award-winning 92-minute documentary is now being offered to academic institutions and libraries.

For more  information: http://revolutionarymovie.com/store.html

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

Stourwater Pictures, an independent documentary production company based near Seattle, WA has produced a number of films about the Asian American experience. Their recent film FUMIKO HAYASHIDA: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SYMBOL starts as a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community in the decades before World War II.  It develops as a contemporary story which follows 97-year-old Fumiko and her daughter Natalie as they return to the site of the former Minidoka internment camp, their first trip back together in 63 years. The film reveals how a 1942 iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.
For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/store.html

Honor and Sacrifice

Stourwater is currently completing their documentary HONOR AND SACRIFICE, a 27-minute documentary about the Japanese American men who were incarcerated in concentration camps, enlisted in the U.S. military, and volunteered to become linguists in the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/honor.html

Witness to revolution: The story of Anna Louise Strong
The daughter of a Nebraska minister, Anna Louise Strong earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Chicago. But it was in the Pacific Northwest, where she witnessed the 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike, that her political vision took shape. In Moscow she helped found the first English language newspaper, in Spain her many visits resulted in her book, Spain in Arms; and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yenan cave in 1946. She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the revolution.
For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/store.html