Information R/evolution

Otro acierto más del grupo de Digital Etnography

Video realizado por el Michael Wesh de Kansas State University.

" Este video explora los cambios en la manera que almacenamos, creamos, criticamos y compartimos información"... (traducción mia).

Al igual que el autor, comparto su visión respecto a como debemos re-pensar la organización y recuperación de la información. Esto implica nuevas formas de dominar las destrezas necesarias para " aprovechar, evaluar y crear información efectivamente"

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Información original via Digizen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo

9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

November 9, 2007

Lisboa, Portugal

In conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2007)Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB

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ACM WIDM 2007 is the ninth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007).

The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how the Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web Structure Mining
  
• Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Data Models and Meta-data, Query Languages, Annotations, Ontologies
• System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web Applications, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P
  
• Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving, Security, Personalization
  
• Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Services
  
• Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring
  
• Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines

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Información vía BIBLIOS - Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información para Latinoamérica y el Mundo.

Certificado de Manejo de Información Digital (Universidad de Arizona)

Deadline for Digital Information Management Certificate Program Extended

The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science has extended the deadline for applications to the school's new Certificate Program in Digital Information Management.

Prospectivestudents now have until April 1, 2007 to complete the application process for classes that begin this summer.

The six-course 18-credit hour graduate program will provide both new students and working professionals with a balanced mix of content that includes practical applied technology skills along with a foundation in the theory and practice of building and maintaining today's digital collections. Certificate holders will be well positioned for careers in libraries, archives, local, state and federal government and the private sector.

All coursework is online, so students will not need to take time off work or travel for courses. The program may be completed in 18-30months and starts each summer with two required courses, Introductionto Applied Technology and Introduction to Digital Collections.

The certificate program has been developed in cooperation with TheArizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. Major funding for program development comes from the Institute of Museum and LibraryServices (IMLS), which has also provided funding for a limited number of scholarships.

For more information and to apply, visit the program website at http://ceao.arizona.edu/dist/sirls_welcome.html, or call UA Distance Learning, Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach, TheUniversity of Arizona, at 520-626-2079 or 800-478-9508 or email: distance@email.arizona.edu

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Bruce Fulton, MLSCommunications and Outreach Librarian
School of Information Resources and Library Science
1515 E First StreetTucson, AZ 85719
Main Office: 520-621-3565
Direct: 520-626-4631
Fax: 520-621-3279
Email: bfulton@email.arizona.edu

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