The Seventh Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting Moat House Hotel, Glasgow, 30 July 2004

The Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting [1] has now reached its seventh consecutive year, running as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. This year's meeting in Glasgow had approximately 100 attendees. Since the advent of the Gene Ontology, which coincided with the first Bio-Ontologies Meeting, we have seen a year-on-year strengthening of the field; bio-ontologies has moved from being dominated by computer science to be led by biological applications; discussion is less about ‘what is an ontology?’ and more about ‘how to build an ontology which is fit for purpose?’. This strengthening of the field can be seen elsewhere. Both the main ISMB conference and this year's Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) [2] have seen a large number of submissions to their ontologies track. For the first time a selection of the papers from the SIG is being published in this issue ofComparative and Functional Genomics. We hope that this will complement the publications of the larger conferences, bringing to a wider audience the cutting edge research that characterizes the Bio-Ontologies SIG.

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ISMB 2003 Bio-ontologies SIG and Sixth Annual Bio-ontologies Meeting Report

Comparative and Functional Genomics ◽

10.1002/cfg.339 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 663-666 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Phillip Lord ◽

Robert Stevens

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Peer Review ◽

Interest Group ◽

Text Analysis ◽

Special Interest ◽

Text Processing ◽

Global Politics ◽

Meeting Report ◽

The Many ◽

First Time

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there were many fewer, no doubt a result of the distance, global politics and SARS. The meeting consisted of a series of 30 min talks with no formal peer review or publication. Talks ranged in style from fairly formal and complete pieces of work, through works in progress, to the very informal and discursive. Each year's meeting has a theme and this year it was ‘ontologies, and text processing’. There is a tendency for those submitting talks to ignore the theme completely, but this year's theme obviously struck a chord, as half the programme was about ontologies and text analysis (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevensr/meeting03/programme.html). Despite the smaller size of the meeting, the programme was particularly strong this year, meaning that the tension between allowing time for the many excellent talks, discussion and questions from the floor was particular keenly felt. A happy problem to have!

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Le metier de bibliothecaire dans une bibliotheque d’art

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200008397 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 4-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jacqueline Viaux

Keyword(s):

French Text ◽

Special Interest ◽

English Translation ◽

Detailed Knowledge ◽

English Version ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Library Users ◽

The Subject ◽

First Time ◽

Selection Of

Art libraries are different from other libraries; they require of art librarians a broad knowledge of art, with a more detailed knowledge of any aspects of the subject in which the particular library has a special interest. This kind of knowledge cannot be acquired entirely from books, but must also be gained from direct encounters with works of art, and by immersing oneself in different places and cultures. Art librarians must also be prepared to learn about art librarianship from colleagues at home and abroad, and about the needs of library users from the users themselves. Yet on occasion the demands of users, as well as the meddling of administrators, must be resisted. Art librarians must apply their knowledge not only to the selection of books, but also to the provision and organisation of visual resources, and to assessing both the value and the limitations of databases. [An English version of this paper appeared in ARLIS NORDEN INFO 1992 no. 2/3; the French text is published here for the first time, and is followed by a new English translation].

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Jataí ACM SIGCSE Chapter: Um espaço de formação na educação em Computação

Revista Sítio Novo ◽

10.47236/2594-7036.2020.v4.i2.139-150p ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 139

Author(s):

Críscilla Maia Costa Rezende ◽

Esdras Lins Bispo Junior

Keyword(s):

Science Education ◽

Computer Science ◽

Interest Group ◽

Special Interest ◽

Computer Science Education ◽

Special Interest Group ◽

Computing Machinery ◽

America Latina

A Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) é a maior sociedade educacional e científica do mundo, possuindo membros profissionais e estudantes por todo o mundo. Uma das formas de a ACM materializar o seu propósito é por meio dos Grupos de Interesse Especial. O Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) é um dos Grupos de Interesse Especial mais antigos da ACM, focado especificamente na Educação em Computação. Ao redor do mundo, os principais objetivos dos capítulos locais do SIGCSE são: (i) promover o desejo de participar dos eventos do SIGCSE em uma determinada região; (ii) compartilhar ideias e problemas com colegas mais de uma vez ao ano; e (iii) ter uma organização local que encoraja boas práticas na Educação em Computação em universidades, escolas, empresas e organizações. Este trabalho apresenta um relato de experiência, no ano de 2018, sobre o Jataí ACM SIGCSE Chapter, o único capítulo da SIGCSE na América Latina. São apresentados o seu histórico, as suas parcerias e os resultados acadêmicos visíveis oriundos, direta ou indiretamente, da existência do capítulo na região. Constata-se que os objetivos supracitados foram satisfatoriamente alcançados no período mencionado.Palavras-chave: Educação. Computação. Formação.

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The British Library Centre for Conservation

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200015170 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 15-21

Author(s):

Vicki Humphrey

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Interest Group ◽

Special Interest ◽

Special Interest Group ◽

British Library ◽

History Of ◽

First Time ◽

Technical Services

On May 16th 2007 the British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) was opened, providing Conservation staff and Sound Archive Technical Services staff with a new purpose-built base from which to operate. The new building allowed them to be brought together onto the same site as their colleagues and co-located them with the collections for the first time. A BLCC-based programme of professional development events, special interest group events and public tours is providing Collection Care, Conservation, and the Sound Archive Technical Section with a public profile and a voice for communicating key messages about the Library’s stewardship of its collections and about caring for collections generally. The Centre, already a milestone in the history of collection care at the Library, is continuing an existing and ambitious change programme, giving the perfect opportunity to examine all aspects of operations and make changes of benefit to the Library and its staff.

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