(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Annual Conference 2010 will take place for the first time in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. From Information to Innovation has been chosen as the main theme of the conference and will highlight the significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments and point to to elements of success in building the future. There are three inspiring sub-themes:
Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation - Finnish cases
Intelligent information solutions and services
Creating the future - towards the global innovation economy
Abstract: "Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters' Web "footprints." We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars' publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts. " "Accepted to 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal, Canada, 5-8 Sept. 2012."
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics
With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective
The Fourth International m-libraries Conference
24-26 September 2012
The Open University, UK, The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"
Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"
Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013
York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics:
libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives
new publics, movements going global and communities of the future
manifestos for the next generation
new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games
ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding
future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies
maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need
visualization and data-driven futures
mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures
crowdsourcing (and/in) the future
teleologies and their discontents
new and imagined creative practices
April 28-30, the Raleigh Convention Center will be alive with action as Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center hosts FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? in conjunction with the international WWW2010 conference.
What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the "digital literacies" paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions?