Hello MCNers,
Happy 4th of July. I trust everyone is having a happy-healthy and energizing holiday weekend. Sorry for the length of this post, but it contains an update on my activity as well as the request for an #arXiv endorsement. As you may recall, I was lucky to earn an "emerging professional" scholarship that allowed me to attend and present at #MCN2014. My panel presentation was my first substantive public description of my #CitizenScience/#DigitalHistory activity that I am engaged in as a big part of my post-cancer #PayItForward Bonus Rounds. #MCN2014 was an exciting event because my fellow cancer survivor wife/project-partner Timlynn Babitsky was able to attend the conference with me, as she enlisted as a Volunteer and we had a blast. Well, I am happy to say that we are still doing well (despite new rounds of cancer for Timlynn and a heart attack for me). But these "bumps" have helped increase our appreciation for each day we have together and to enjoy our ability to advance our projects, FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project. As a 25th wedding anniversary present to ourselves, we funded the digitization of the full 48-issue collection of Softalk magazine into the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softalkapple. We became DPLA Community Volunteers and were invited to attend the Library Leaders Forum at the Internet Archive this past Fall. Because my applied research is focused on an innovative application of the #cidocCRM/#FRBRoo/#PRESSoo ontological "stack", I have much greater interest and support for my research in the UK and Europe. Most exciting of these collaborations is with the PRImA Research Lab at the University of Salford (http://www.primaresearch.org/). Through this work, I was invited onto the Program Committee for the upcoming #DATeCH conference (delayed from this October until this coming Spring due to multi-conference scheduling issues). The most exciting part of these developments is that, at age 65, I am submitting my first academic research paper! Bucket-List, check!!! :D (As a serial entrepreneur and corporate consultant, everything I did during my career for proprietary.) This first paper describes my collaboration with PRImA where FactMiners is proposing the MAGAZINE format as a superset of PRImA's PAGE GTS (#GroundTruthStorage) format. Here is a link to a PDF of my submission available from my OneDrive cloud storage: https://goo.gl/cFMcQH. Since #DATeCH has been delayed until Spring - and I already have a second submission in development which is going to be an excellent complement to this current paper, I would like to begin submitting my work to the #arXiv repository at Cornell University (http://arxiv.org/). I intend to submit this paper and the next into the cs.DL - Computer Science, Digital Libraries - section of the repository. Unfortunately, as an independent unaffiliated researcher, I need to be endorsed by an #arXiv-qualified member in order to make these submissions. PLEASE, if there is anyone in MCN who is a qualified submitter to #arXiv who is willing to endorse me, please reply by private message or here on the list. I can send you the boilerplate endorsement email that has the URL and code to make the endorsement that will enable my submissions. Since the cs.DL category has relatively few submissions so far, the list of alternative Computer Science categories that can endorse for this category is a virtual mile long and includes: cs.AI, cs.AR, cs.CC, cs.CE, cs.CG, cs.CL, cs.CR, cs.CV, cs.CY, cs.DB, cs.DC, cs.DL, cs.DM, cs.DS, cs.ET, cs.FL, cs.GL, cs.GR, cs.GT, cs.HC, cs.IR, cs.IT, cs.LG, cs.LO, cs.MA, cs.MM, cs.MS, cs.NA, cs.NE, cs.NI, cs.OH, cs.OS, cs.PF, cs.PL, cs.RO, cs.SC, cs.SD, cs.SE, cs.SI or cs.SY. So if you haven't submitted to cs.DL, no problem. You likely are qualified under one of these alternative sections. Also note, multi-author submissions are often only "owned" by the main submitter. There is an easy process to have yourself added to papers you may be a co-author on but have not been recognized with this author-permission. Again, sorry for such a long note but I wanted to give my MCN friends this update while making my request for #arXiv endorsement. Thank you again for the "emerging professional" scholarship. I will do my best to keep emerging! :D BTW, I have been writing a bunch of stuff that is #DigitalHumanities and #TextSoup2SmartData related via Medium and available here: https://medium.com/@Jim_Salmons/. Happy-Healthy Vibes, -: Jim :- Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky Twitter: @Jim_Salmons, @TimlynnBabitsky, @FactMiners, @Softalk_Apple www.FactMiners.org (Our #CitizenScience project) www.SoftalkApple.com (Our #DigitalHistory project) mailto:[email protected] Direct/cell Jim USA: 319-431-0981
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