Call for Papers: IEEC 2010

A call for papers, with submission deadline of 18 March 2010, has been issued for IEEC 2010: The 2nd International Symposium on Information Engineering and Electronic Commerce, to be held 23-25 July 2010, in Ternopil, Ukraine.

Of the topic areas of the conference, the following contains the greatest number of law-related topics:

“Area 1 : Business and Social Applications

• E-Service
• E-Learning
• E-Entertainment
• E-Banking
• E-commerce
• E-Government
• E-Society
• Architectures and applications of B2B, B2C and C2C
• Business processes re-engineering
• Healthcare and Medical Applications
• Virtual Organizations
• Collaborative Business Systems
• Supply-chain Management
• CRM and Business Solutions
• Workflow Management Systems
• E-Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• Intellectual Rights
• Trust and Privacy Issues in Social Networks
• Semantic Web Applications and Ontology Sharing
• Adoption of Standards and Protocols for e-Business Applications
• Business Intelligence
• Information Infrastructures of Businesses”

For a complete list of topics, or for more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: I-KNOW 2010

A call for papers,with submission deadline of 8 March 2010, has been issued for I-KNOW 2010: The 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, to be held 1–3 September 2010, at Messe Congress Graz, Austria.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

“I. Knowledge Management

• Theories for Knowledge Management
• Concepts for Knowledge Management
• Models for Knowledge Management
• Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
• Evaluations and Use Case Studies of Knowledge Management

II. Knowledge Discovery

• Information Retrieval and Search Visualization
• Knowledge & Information Visualization
• Semantic Enhanced Knowledge Discovery
• Knowledge Discovery in the Future Internet
• Information Quality in the Web
• Knowledge Relationship Discovery and Statistical Relational Learning
• Large Scale Knowledge Discovery
• Text Mining & Semantic Enrichment

III. Knowledge Services

• User context detection services
• User profile modelling and maintenance services
• Context-aware recommendation services
• Collaborative knowledge construction and modelling services
• Collaborative knowledge maturing services
• Knowledge sharing and communication services

..which are based on Knowledge Technologies such as

• Web 2.0 and Future Internet
• Social Network Analysis
• Adaptive, context-aware systems
• Semantic technologies
• Mobile computing approaches
• Web-services, SOA, service orchestration
• Linked-open data
• Trust & privacy approaches

IV. Social Media

• Models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
• models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
• Agent-based models of social media
• Models of emergent social media properties
• Cooperation and collaboration models
• Modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
• Architectural and framework models
• User modeling and behavioural models
• Social Media Engineering

V. Enterprise 2.0 and Social Web: Case Studies and Evaluations

• Enterprise 2.0
• Corporate Web 2.0
• Social Networking (Services) and the Enterprise
• Wikis, (Micro-)Blogs and the Enterprise
• Computer-Mediated Communication and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work with Social Media
• Communities and Social Media
• Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion with Social Media
• Knowledge Management in the Future Internet of People, Content and Knowledge
• Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation
• Web 2.0 and Viral Marketing”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: I-SEMANTICS 2010

A call for papers,with submission deadline of 8 March 2010, has been issued for I-SEMANTICS 2010: The 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, to be held 1–3 September 2010, at Messe Congress Graz, Austria.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

“Web of Data and Linked Data

• Triplification of existing data
• Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for use on the Web of Data
• Querying, searching and browsing over Linked Data
• Coreference detection and dataset reconciliation
• Information provenance and quality assessment on the Web of Data
• User interaction and visualisation
• Applications utilizing open data sets
• Linked Enterprise Data, Linked Government Data

Corporate Semantic Web

• Corporate thesauri, corporate business vocabularies / ontologies and business rules
• Semantic Business Information Systems
• Semantic Business Process Management
• Semantic Decision Management
• Semantics, Pragmatics and Semiotics in Organizations
• Economic and entrepreneurial aspects and business models of Semantic Enterprises

Semantic Social Software

• Semantic blogging, wikis and content management systems
• Semantic Desktop
• Semantic mashups
• Semantic/structured tagging
• Social semantic web and mobile services

Semantic Content Engineering

• Ontology Engineering & Ontology Merging
• Ontology Design Patterns
• Ontology Life Cycle Management
• Ontology Learning
• Linguistic and statistic approaches (text-mining, NLP, etc.) for structuring and extracting content and entities
• Automated annotation, extreme tagging and digital curation approaches

Building Blocks for Semantic Web Applications

• Scalable inference, retrieval, and persistence of semantic data
• Design processes from requirements to maintenance
• Design patterns, Best practices and Reference Models
• User-interface components, template languages
• Integration of distributed repositories
• Policy Awareness & Policy Aware Web
• Semantic web services

Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks

• Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage
• Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
• Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
• Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
• Quality analysis of socially generated semantic content
• Trust and privacy issues in semantic applications
• Economic effects generated by large scale semantic systems”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Post-Doc: Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at the Washington University School of Law

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the 2010-2011 Academic Year (1 year, renewable) at The Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at the Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Consideration of applications began 22 February 2010.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in political science, economics, psychology, sociology, statistics, or other social sciences at the time of appointment.

The fellow will perform data management, data analysis, and computer programming on a variety of Center-sponsored projects. Expertise with statistical software, scripting languages, and database systems preferred. There are no teaching responsibilities.

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT ELS Blog.

Digitization Projects & Law Libraries: GPLLA Panel

A panel on Digitization Projects and Law Libraries will be held 18 March 2010 at the library of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The panel is sponsored by GPLLA, the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association.

The panelists will be:

• John Joergensen, creator of the Rutgers Camden Law Library Digital Collections and blogger at The Hacked Librarian; and
• Michelle Ayers of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Library.

The panelists will discuss the following topics:

• “Reasons to digitize;
• Barriers to digitizing;
• Importance of metadata;
• Possible pitfalls involved in a digitization project and how to avoid;
• Examples of library digital projects in government and academia;
• Possible applications in Firm libraries.”

For more information, please see the announcement.

Call for Papers: [Law School] Clinical Theory Workshop: 25th Anniversary Celebration & Conference

A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 1 April 2010 and first draft deadline of June 15, 2010 — has been issued for the [Law School] Clinical Theory Workshop: 25th Anniversary Celebration & Conference, to be held 30 September-2 October 2010, at New York Law School, in New York, New York, USA.

The theme of the conference is “Twenty-five years of clinical scholarship: What have we learned, and what should we work on next?”

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• “lawyering skills;
• pedagogy;
• supervision;
• legal practice;
• the nature of lawyers’ expertise;
• the representation of communities;
• interviewing;
• ABA standards, including outcomes assessment and changes in Standard 405(c);
• ‘engaged client-centeredness’;
• difference and similarity between lawyer and client;
• supporting client decisionmaking while still bringing the lawyer’s insights and even moral views to the table;
• working with atypical clients;
• using narrative as a lens for understanding clients;
• integrating skills and ethics (for example, in the lawyer’s attention to truth and her explanations of the law); and
• understanding the nature of expert, as distinguished from novice, client-centered practice.”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Request for Comments: Law.gov National / California Inventory of Legal Materials

[NOTE added 2 March 2010: National Inventory of Legal Materials: A Call to Action is now available; per @evwayne, it "offers guidance and suggestions for creating the inventory."]

A request for comments on an inventory of California legal information — a prototype for the National Inventory of Legal Materials and a component of the Law.gov legal open government data project — has been issued by Erika Wayne, one of the coordinators of the National Inventory, and Deputy Director of the Stanford University Law Library.

Inspired by the kick-off Law.gov workshop held at Stanford, NOCALL (Northern California Association of Law Librarians) is creating a California legal information inventory.

This inventory will document primary (plus) legal materials in the state of California, and will serve as a prototype for other National Inventory projects across the country.

As this project is just beginning, we welcome comments and suggestions for improving the inventory.

To view the inventory and submit comments, or for more information, please see the request for comments.

Click here for background information on the National Inventory of Legal Materials.

Malamud on Law.gov @ Berkman Center

Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org discusses the Law.gov legal open government data project, in an interview podcast with David Weinberger of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Here is the abstract:

This week we sit down with Carl Malamud, who with the group Public.Resource.org is pushing to put law in the public domain. We covered the issue of copyright on law a few months ago in Radio Berkman 129 where Steve Schultze introduced us to RECAP – a software that helps legal researchers bypass hefty fees for access to legal documents. There is now a movement afoot, not just to bypass the system that puts law behind a paywall, but to remove it altogether. If you think this is a small issue – note that Americans spend some $10 billion a year just to access legal documents, everything from local building codes to Supreme Court records. The Executive Branch alone pays $50 million to access district court records. Some cash-strapped law schools ration students’ access to per-page charging services for legal records. And journalists, non-profits, and average citizens interested in legal research are feeling just as nickeled-and-dimed by fees. David Weinberger and Carl Malamud sat down to talk about the chances for freeing the written word of the law.

Law.gov Workshop at Colorado Law, 2 April 2010

Putting the Law Online, A Workshop about the Law.gov legal open government data project, will be held 2 April 2010 at Silicon Flatirons: A Center for Law, Technology, & Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

The conference is co-hosted by Silicon Flatirons, The Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado, and Public.Resource.Org.

Here is a description of the agenda:

At the April 2nd workshop, we will focus specifically on two questions of special relevance to the Silicon Flatirons and Colorado communities:

First, what does Law.Gov mean for state and local governments? What special challenges and opportunities do we face that we might miss if we were to focus only on the federal government? We hope to have members from every branch of the Colorado state government present to provide their thoughts.

Second, we will ask what broader access to the law will mean for legal research and social science. What new tools and studies might we expect to see after cases and laws are placed online?

Here are the conference speakers:

• Michael Bender, Justice, Colorado Supreme Court;
• Barbara Bintliff, Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law, Director, William A. Wise Law Library, University of Colorado Law School, and Reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) Drafting Committee on Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials;
• Carl Malamud, President and Founder, Public.Resource.Org;
• Paul Ohm, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado.

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT Carl Malamud.

Originalism 2.0 Conference at Penn Law

[NOTE: Videos of several of the panels are now available.]

Originalism 2.0: The 2010 National Student Symposium of the Federalist Society, was held 26-27 February 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for the list of speakers.

Click here for an archive of Twitter tweets from the first, fourth, & fifth of the conference panels. The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #orig20.

If the conference video is Webcast at some future time, a link will be added here.

[NOTE: Last updated 17 March 2010.]