HathiTrust Research Center Protoyping Projects

Dear Colleagues, please forward as you see fit.

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses.  Grants of $40,000 will be offered to each of four successful respondents to be conducted over a nine-month period beginning April 2014. Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project (WCSA) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A complete copy of the RFP is attached to this email and available online at: http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu/worksets/?page_id=20.

RFP Schedule:

RFP Available: 22 November 2013
Letters of Intent Due (preferred): 16 December 2013
Final Proposals Due: 13 January 2014
Shortlist Meeting Invitations Issued: 20 January 2014
Shortlist Meeting: 20 February 2014
Award Notification: No later than 15 March 2014

Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail):

The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. To tap the analytic potential of this large and diverse corpus, to tame it and make it useful to them, many researchers need the wherewithal to gather together, into a kind of personal digital carrel, cohesive and coherent subsets of HT texts (potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of volumes or parts of volumes) amenable to the in depth forms of analysis they want to do. The attributes on which they seek to collocate digitized texts are not always recorded in standard bibliographic descriptions.

The HTRC will collaborate with four independent sub-awardees in conducting individual prototyping projects to develop and validate the potential of specific algorithms, services and/or tools that can enable the creation of large and small scale worksets of digitized texts and parts of digitized texts for scholarly analysis in ways not currently feasible. We are seeking proposals from engaged teams of digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. We anticipate that the proposals received will approach the problem in a variety of different and complementary ways. Proposed prototype experiments must respond to real scholar needs and requirements.

Respondents are urged to contact htrc.wcsa@gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support with a member of the project team. Prime award project PIs are:

J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
Tim Cole, University Library, University of Illinois
Beth Plale, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University

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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839

. SBP 2014 Grand Data Challenge

Grand Data Challenge of 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14)

April 2 – April 4, 2014, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA

http://sbp-conference.org/

SBP is pleased to offer a challenge problem again in 2014, and we expect it to build on the successes of previous years' challenge problems. The theme of the SBP 2014 Challenge is how to better demonstrate the power and value of "big data" in the social sciences.

Challenge Overview

We invite participants to explore the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT), an expansive set containing a quarter-billion geo-referenced political news events covering the whole world since 1979, describing who did what to whom when and where, and use GDELT to

• Demonstrate the applications of spatial, temporal and network methodologies and their interactions,

• Identify the latent "influencers" of social movement and media-based political competition,

• Experimentally validate and improve models for social phenomena,

• Visualize social movements of different types on all levels at a glance,

• Propose solutions to societal problems including health care and public safety using data- and model- based reasoning, and

• To suggest new creative applications using the GDELT data.

Important Dates

* Submission deadline: December 20, 2013 (23:59 PST)

* Notification of Winners: January 17, 2014

Contacts:

For more information, please contact Wen Dong at  wendong@gmail.com,  or   

Katherine Chuang at katychuang@gmail.com, or Kevin Xu at kevinxu@outlook.com . 

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Master of science in Information Systems with concentration in Information Security

One of a kind global education experience

Two Institutions, Two Years, Nine Months International exposure

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or contact

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Queens College/CUNY Faculty Position in Information Science

Assistant Professor in Information Science – Fall 2014

Queens College, Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

Queens College, City University of New York, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the area of Information Science. Qualified candidates are sought with research and teaching expertise as well as applied knowledge in two of the following areas:

Data Management and Curation

Content Management Systems

Information/Systems Architecture

Usability

Metadata

PhD in library/information science or a related field at the time of appointment. An earned graduate degree in library science is required. Preference will be given to applicants who have familiarity with the ALA accreditation process.

For detailed information and application materials visit: www.cuny.edu/employment.html  (Job #9136)

Completed application packets, including cover letter describing scholarly interests, curriculum vitae and 500 word essay addressing "Future Directions in LIS Education" must be submitted online, as one document.

For further information regarding application procedures contact colleen.cool@qc.cuny.edu.

The City University of New York is an EO/AA Employer

] CFD: WWW'14 (Seoul, Korea) Call for Demos

CALL FOR DEMOS

23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)

Seoul, Korea

April 7-11, 2014

=== Important Dates ===

Paper Submission Deadline : Dec. 22, 2013

Notifications of Acceptance : Jan. 26, 2014

Final Submission Deadline for Camera-ready Version : Feb. 5, 2014

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The Demo Track allows researchers and practitioners to demonstrate new systems in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demos from the traditional research community are of course strongly encouraged, but proposals from other activity areas are also welcome, as we envisage to open demo sessions to the larger public. Software (including games or learning platforms) and hardware demos will also be considered, as long as they show innovative use of Web-based techniques.

Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. They should strive to state the significance of the contribution to Web technology or applications. Demos will be peer-reviewed by members of the Demo Track Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission.

At least one author of each accepted demo paper must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the demo sessions (please see the Conference Policies). Each accepted demo paper will be allocated no more than four pages in the conference proceedings. Demo authors are not required to transfer copyright.

Submission Guidelines

Demo submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template and are limited to four pages. Submissions must be in PDF and must be done through the EasyChair system.

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www14demo

To better identify the value of demos, as well as to reach out to external audiences, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast, using web-accessible platforms such as Vimeo or Youtube. The maximum duration of screencasts is 10 minutes.

Demo Track Chairs

Jaewoo Kang (Korea University, Korea) kangj@korea.ac.kr

Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Postdoctoral Fellowship Available at NCBI

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A postdoctoral research position is available in the research group headed by Dr. Zhiyong Lu at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).  Dr. Lu's laboratory is mainly interested in developing and applying computational approaches to natural language text in biomedicine, as well as large-scale omics data. His recent research in biomedical text analysis has focused on various problems in biocuration (e.g. BioCreative challenge series), computational drug discovery (e.g. PSB sessions on Drug Repurposing), and online access to literature and consumer health information. The successful applicant will build and apply new methods to such research problems and also have the opportunity to contribute to the improvement of information access for users of NCBI resources.

Qualifications: Applicants must have training with a strong emphasis on computation and familiarity with statistical methods in data and text mining and/or machine learning. A PhD degree or equivalent in bioinformatics, computer science, computational linguists or a closely related field is required. Strong programming and data analysis skills are essential. Applicants need not be US citizens or Permanent Residents.

Appointments are initially for two years, with the option of extension based on performance.

To apply: please submit your curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to Dr. Lu at Zhiyong.Lu@nih.gov<mailto:Zhiyong.Lu@nih.gov>. The position is open until filled.

Selection for this position will be based solely on merit, with no discrimination for non-merit reasons such as race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, politics, marital status, physical or mental handicap, age, or membership or non-membership in an employee organization. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

NIH is an Equal Opportunity Employer


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LU, Zhiyong PhD
Earl Stadtman Investigator
NCBI/NLM/NIH
RM1003A, Bldg 38A
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, 20894
Phone: 301-594-7089
Email: zhiyong.lu@nih.gov<mailto:zhiyong.lu@nih.gov>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Lu/

Open position: NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

The "Health On the Net (HON) Foundation" in Geneva is announcing an opened position in:

NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Type: fulltime

HON is offering at wide range of services to citizens, medical professionals and health care providers. The HON web development team makes HON services available to millions of users in order to access health websites respecting a set of quality criteria: the HONcode. The team combines software development, system administration expertise in a cloud environment to run multilingual services available in 102 countries. We are looking for a web software developer with the extensive knowledge in Natural Language Processing to contribute to major development in a multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities:

• manage a large scale crawling robot and search engine dedicated to health sites
• NLP research and development, from research to production
• develop and implement collaborative platforms
• act as software support on various projects (CMS, log analysis etc.)

Essential qualifications:

• Master degree in computer science or related field with a background in NLP, with at least 2 years of experiences, or provable very strong programming achievement (any open source contribution is a plus).
• Problem solving skills and ability to think laterally;
• Look for opportunities to improve or optimize systems;
• Managing time and priorities in a rapidly changing, flexible environment;
• Participating in code reviews and support of peers in a collaborative agile environment (SCRUM, JIRA);
• Creating and maintaining user and developer documentation;
• Communicating, training, sharing knowledge and ideas as well as, issues and training/resource needs with others;
• Unit testing of code to deliver projects of robust quality; 
• Applied Agile methodology experience & continuous testing/integration;

Frontend development qualifications:

• programming language: Groovy/Grails.
• Ajax/jQuery/Javascript

Backend development qualifications:

• Java, Perl
• Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge in Solr/Lucene;

You are responsible and organized; creative and proactive.

You are fluent in French with a very good knowledge of written and spoken English, German is a plus.

Please submit your CV, letter of motivation, and salary expectations toHON-Job@healthonnet.org