CAIS was in Montreal this year, at Concordia. I had been to conferences at McGill and Montreal before, but had never been to Concordia. I also never realised Concordia was so close to McGill.
At CAIS, I presented a short paper:
Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices Over a Four Year Period. Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, June 5-7, 2010. http://cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2010/CAIS042_Kipp_final.pdf
Here are a few pictures from Montreal (cathedral, rental bike system).
ASIST was in Pittsburgh this year. I had never been to Pittsburgh before, except when transferring between flights, so the city was new to me. The hotel was right near the river.
The conference had a different structure this year which I both liked and disliked. I ended up liking the poster session because more people attended it (last year I was in the poster session on the last day which many people were forced to miss in order to make their flights) but did not like the organisation of the conference. Having the workshops midweek meant I was unable to attend since I am teaching face-to-face classes this term.
I presented 3 posters at ASIST including two posters co-authored with doctoral students.
Here is a list of the posters:
Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2010. Application of Structural Equation Modelling in Exploring Tag Patterns: A Pilot Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [Best Poster Award ASIST 2010]
Lu, Kun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Can Collaborative Tagging Improve Retrieval Effectiveness? -- An Experimental Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Convergence and divergence in tagging systems: An examination of tagging practices over a four year period. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://eprints.rclis.org/19244/
The first poster in the list won the ASIST 2010 Best Poster Award.
Here are a few pictures from Pittsburgh:
