A Word from the New Editor-in-Chief

After 19 years of continuing publication CIT. Journal of Computing and Information Technology has entered a new stage in its life, experiencing another change at the helm: Professor Sven Lončarić stepped down from the position of Editor-in-Chief, with me taking it. In his 12 years term, aside from improving CIT’s attractiveness among the research community, Sven also succeeded in achieving a new quality in publishing CIT by introducing its electronic edition. In relieving Sven from this duty, I am sure to express the common feeling of gratitude for his valuable contribution to CIT, both in carrying out the daily routine as well as in implementing new journal policies

New York Times Topics, a model of journalistic documentation product in digital press

After introducing journalistic documentation products in digital media such as Special reports and Topics, this paper reviews the literature about this issue and presents a case study of The New York Times Topics section. The method followed comprises the study of the site over several months during 2011, complemented with an interview with its current chief editor, John O’Neil. Issues such as the origin and objectives of the section, work method, types of Topics  pages, page structure, and constituent elements of the section and particular pages are discussed. The main contributions of The New York Times Topics and some areas for improvement are pointed

The Enduring Value of Books Related to the Law: A Librarian\u27s Perspective

In the 1979 inaugural issue of the Michigan Law Review’s annual survey of books related to the law, Professor Cavers wrote an enthusiastic and hopeful introduction. He characterized the journal’s effort as a “bold innovation” that would benefit lawyers; law professors, both domestic and foreign; scholars in other disciplines, such as the social sciences; and the marketplace of ideas generally. As the annual survey approached its twentieth anniversary, Professor Schneider provided a fascinating, frank description of the Book Review issue’s origins during his tenure as the Michigan Law Review’s Editor- in-Chief. Happily, this annual Book Review issue continues to thrive. A few years after the inaugural issue, I arrived at the University of Michigan as a young lawyer on a new career path to law librarianship. I chose Michigan in order to benefit from the combined excellence of its library school, its law school, and its law library. I was unaware of this homegrown “bold innovation” that would become a part of my work for years to come. As an alumna of the University of Michigan’s School of Library Science (now the School of Information) and a former member of the law school’s library staff, I am honored to recognize Michigan’s distinct contribution to the legal profession by introducing this year’s commentary on a typically impressive and eclectic array of titles

The Enduring Value of Books Related to the Law: A Librarian\u27s Perspective

In the 1979 inaugural issue of the Michigan Law Review’s annual survey of books related to the law, Professor Cavers wrote an enthusiastic and hopeful introduction. He characterized the journal’s effort as a “bold innovation” that would benefit lawyers; law professors, both domestic and foreign; scholars in other disciplines, such as the social sciences; and the marketplace of ideas generally. As the annual survey approached its twentieth anniversary, Professor Schneider provided a fascinating, frank description of the Book Review issue’s origins during his tenure as the Michigan Law Review’s Editor- in-Chief. Happily, this annual Book Review issue continues to thrive. A few years after the inaugural issue, I arrived at the University of Michigan as a young lawyer on a new career path to law librarianship. I chose Michigan in order to benefit from the combined excellence of its library school, its law school, and its law library. I was unaware of this homegrown “bold innovation” that would become a part of my work for years to come. As an alumna of the University of Michigan’s School of Library Science (now the School of Information) and a former member of the law school’s library staff, I am honored to recognize Michigan’s distinct contribution to the legal profession by introducing this year’s commentary on a typically impressive and eclectic array of titles

Stakeholder Analysis (OAIG Gold Open Access project)

This document is an analysis of the stakeholders in the process of a scholarly society considering moving a journal to Open Access, and of their interests in this process. It is not a general overview of all stakeholders in Open Access. It was produced within the Gold Open Access project http://www.alt.ac.uk/gold_open_acces

A Revised Publication Model for ECML PKDD

ECML PKDD is the main European conference on machine learning and data mining. Since its foundation it implemented the publication model common in computer science: there was one conference deadline; conference submissions were reviewed by a program committee; papers were accepted with a low acceptance rate. Proceedings were published in several Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial (LNAI) volumes, while selected papers were invited to special issues of the Machine Learning and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journals. In recent years, this model has however come under stress. Problems include: reviews are of highly variable quality; the purpose of bringing the community together is lost; reviewing workloads are high; the information content of conferences and journals decreases; there is confusion among scientists in interdisciplinary contexts. In this paper, we present a new publication model, which will be adopted for the ECML PKDD 2013 conference, and aims to solve some of the problems of the traditional model. The key feature of this model is the creation of a journal track, which is open to submissions all year long and allows for revision cycles.Comment: 13 page

The world-wide spread of journalism convergence

Convergence is a likely destination for news media in many parts of the world, though the duration of the journey will vary from country to country. This paper defines convergence as well as it is possible to do so, traces its spread around the world, and describes some of the most common business models. It looks at the forces driving convergence, and factors common to the most successful converged operations. The paper also describes the uncertain scenario in Australia now the Howard government has announced plans to change media ownership laws. It ends with discussion about changes in curricula at journalism programs in the United States in the light of the spread of convergence.<br /

Expert systems: Special issue on “New trends and Innovations in Intelligent Distributed Computing”

[Excerpt] Distributed Systems current face new challenges of adapting and reusing research results in the area of Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Systems use methods and technology derived from Knowledge‐based and Computational Intelligence. Distributed Computing develops methods and technology to build systems composed of collaborating components. The fast growth of both Big Data and Data Mining have created interesting challenges for classical methods, algorithms, and frameworks from Distributed Computing, which makes especially interesting analysis and research into new trends and innovations that have recently appeared in this area. This special issue welcomed submissions of original papers introducing research results on all the aspects covering the roles of Knowledge and Intelligence in Distributed Systems, ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. This issue presents a expanded versions of these papers from the best of those presented at the 10th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2016), which was held in Paris (France). [...]As the special issue editors, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the various authors for their papers and the reviewers fortheir work. We are also grateful to Jon Hall, Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal Expert Systems. We would like to particularly thankthe IDC'16 programme committee members for their hard work and dedication. To conclude, we would like to acknowledge the financialsupport received from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) projects: EphemeCH (TIN2014-56494-C4-{1… 4}-P)and DeepBio (TIN2017-85727-C4-{1… 4}-P), both under the European Regional Development Fund FEDER and the support by COMPETE:POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT Fundao para a Cincia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013

Film screening and discussion: Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation

This is the archive of a film screening and discussion given by Jan Novak, author and filmmaker