Editorial

Welcome to the second issue of the Journal of Posthumanism, which presents four articles, two commentaries, one book review, and two artistic works. It is also our pleasure to host the special issue entitled “The KJSNA Conference Session on Philosophical Posthumanism” that has five commentaries.

Preface

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Applications (ICAIBD2021) that were planned to be held in Huanggang, China were successfully held via an online platform during September 24, 2021. The events brought together researchers and scientists from big data and artificial intelligence, researchers from various application areas to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research. The conference was composed of 2 sessions with 4 keynote speeches and 40 oral reports presented in this conference. Each keynote speech and oral report will take 30-40 minutes and 5-10 minutes, respectively. All papers included in the conference proceedings were peer reviewed according to IOP Publishing standards. We would like to deeply acknowledge all the parties involved in making this conference successfully held: the conference session chairs, organizing committee, authors, reviewers and IOP Publishing. Besides, we wish to thank all authors and participants for providing their valuable contributions for this proceeding as well as the reviewers for their constructive recommendations and criticism aiding to improve the presented articles. General Chair Yuntao Wu Wuhan Institute of Technology [email protected] Zhihua Hu Huanggang Normal University [email protected] List of Academy Committee are available in this pdf.

Addressing disorder in scholarly communication: Strategies from NISO 2021

Open science and preprints have invited a larger audience of readers, especially during the pandemic. Consequently, communicating the limitations and uncertainties of research to a broader public has become important over the entire information lifecycle. This paper brings together reports from the NISO Plus 2021 conference session “Misinformation and truth: from fake news to retractions to preprints”. We discuss the validation and verification of scientific information at the preprint stage in order to support sound and open science standards, at the publication stage in order to limit the spread of retracted research, and after publication, to fight fake news about health-related research by mining open access content.

Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019

This paper stems from cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration between community music and human geography which sought to interrogate and understand claims of social sustainability and social change often cited in evaluation reports of community music projects. The lead authors (Parks and Cassidy) took this dialogue forward by organising a geography conference session which incorporated an instant choir workshop to test how we might ‘do’ social sustainability through practice. Drawing upon ideas from both disciplines, the paper synthesises the reflections of nine participants in the session to explore the capacity of creative, embodied, geographical practice to transform hegemonic experiences of academic conferences, and to create a sustainable and inclusive community of practice.

IoT based Automated Room

The smart home is an environment in which heterogeneous electronic devices and appliances are networked together to give smart services to individuals in a ubiquitous manner. Because of the numerous benefits, organizations and individuals are widely accepting and using the capabilities provided by smart home applications. Our purpose is to turn a standard room into a "smart room." The combination of IoT and AI platforms is utilized to offer the infrastructure required to integrate disparate devices and services across networks. Multiple sensors, processing, and actuation components have been designed and deployed in this project. Assume that the state of the room is continuously monitored, and decisions are made to regulate the room lights, cooling, heating, and projector operation manually, remotely, or even automatically. For example, when a person enters the designated room, the lights and projector immediately switch on. Environmental measures (temperature, humidity, and ambient light), energy consumption measurements, and estimates of the number of individuals present are collected during the conference session. The comfort levels of room occupants are maintained by automatic rule-based decision making. We employ a comprehensive analysis completed by real-life Smart Room users to evaluate our methodology. The same procedures will be followed in other areas. Furthermore, by utilizing the same set of sensors, the same can be used for home automation.

Behind the Inspiring Connections: Research and Researchers in School Librarianship

The international study of research and researchers in the field of school librarianship that is described in this paper has two main areas of focus. The first broad aim is to provide an overview of the current (as of 2000) state-ofthe-art of research in school librarianship, and to compare it with the results of similar work undertaken in 1995, in order to identify trends and developments. The second broad aim is to identify current active researchers in the field of school librarianship internationally, as the basis for a survey. The survey (using interviews and a mailed questionnaire) will investigate issues associated with research in school librarianship, identified through a review of the literature and other methods. A progress report and preliminary results will be provided in the conference session.

“How Do You Do That?”

The conversation group session was grounded in research conducted in December 2019 and January 2020 which investigated collection development trends of theological and religious studies librarians responsible for purchasing materials for their libraries located in the United States and Canada. After briefly introducing the details of how the research was conducted and key findings, the presenters facilitated guided discussion among attendees. Prior to the conference session, the presenters pre-populated a Padlet (an online, editable platform) with questions to which small groups of conference attendees could respond. These questions centered on collection development practices and the platform created a space for attendee responses to “live” in perpetuity, functioning also as a snapshot of the collection development trends that conference attendees embody.