IC-ININFO 2011: International Conference on Integrated Information

IC-ININFO-2011 is an international interdisciplinary conference covering research and development in the field of information management and integration. Furthermore, IC-ININFO-2011 aims to bring together scientists, engineers and product designers in order to fill the gap between research and development.

The conference will be held from 29 September to 3 October on the Greek island of KOS. Sessions will include:

• 4th Symposium on Business and Management and Dynamic Simulation Models supporting management strategies
• Information content preservation as outcome of Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Ethics, Methodology and Tools
• Graph Motifs in Information Networks
• Artists’ Responses to the Museum after 1900 and the Writing of Art History
• Contemporary issues in Management: Organisational Behaviour, Information Technology, Education & Hospital leadership
• Electronic Publishing: A developing landscape
• Open access repositories: self-archiving, metadata, content policies, usage
• Evidence-Based Information in Clinical Practice
• Information and Knowledge Management
• 2nd AMICUS Workshop: "Motifs in Cultural and Scientific Narratives"
• Symposium on Advances Information for Strategic Management
• Symposium on Business Management and Communication Strategies supporting Decision Making Process in Tourism Sector
• Information History: Perspectives, methods and current topics
• Divergence and convergence: information work in digital cultural memory institutions

Co-organisers of the last-mentioned session, Dr. Susan Myburgh (University of South Australia) and Dr Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma), have issued a Call for Papers (6 August 2011) with a deadline of 7 September. Authors of accepted papers do not necessarily have to travel to KOS.

Further information...

(Via Conrad Taylor and the KIDMM list)

Only KOnnect

It seems that ISKO UK's mission is well in-tune with British Library Chief Executive Lynne Brindley's view of the future for the information profession. In her keynote speech at CILIP's Umbrella 2007 conference, she is reported (CILIP Update, 6(11) November 2007) as saying:

Cataloguers 'interbreeding' with other professional groups such as programmers and graphic designers (for example in shopping channels, and the advertising industry) means that our backroom skills have become hot! Resource discovery is the key to the future of web services - we surely must be major contributors to all this.

	Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, And human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...
	E.M. Forster, Howards End

Planet Cataloging

After a busy fortnight, I've been catching up on my C&I postings this afternoon, and just wanted to share with you my top link for the day, Planet Cataloging.

"An automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata designed and maintained by Jennifer Lang and Kevin S. Clarke," its blogroll is impressive, and I'm sure it's going to be useful for anyone interested in keeping up-to-date with what the catalogue-blogging community is saying - in the library sector and beyond.

I've posted a couple of drawbacks and caveats on C&I Blog, and I hope you won't mind my just linking to the post there for anyone who's interested, rather than repeat posting here.

Top ten journals in information science?

Controversial issues of impact factor as a measure of a journal's importance are well documented. We can often read about misuse, manipulation and skewness of this measurements. The ASIS&T SIGMETRICS list is, for instance, a good forum to discuss all these problems.

However, in spite of all reservations, most of us like to keep an eye on Thompsons ISI citation index, whatever conclusions we may draw from it.

Here are what appear to be the most frequently cited journals in 2005 (for the sake of the simplicity of this message I had to leave out "Immediacy Index","Cited Half life", and "number of articles in 2005" which are all needed to get a full picture - see calculation... but anyway).

	Total Cites	Impact Factor
JASIST	2552	1.583
Management Information Systems Quarterly	2395	4.978
J. of Am Medical Informatics Association	2040	4.339
Scientometrics	1406	1.738
Information & Management, Amst.	1230	1.524
Journal Of Management Information Systems	1167	1.406
Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science	960	1.562
Information Systems Research	949	2.054
Journal of Information Technology	347	1.543
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology	298	2.652