Chapter News, January 2024

Asia Chapter Annual Regional Meeting

On December 23, 2023, the ASIS&T Asia Chapter  held its annual meeting. The conference's theme, "The Inheritance, Integration, and Innovation of Information Science in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Development," seeks to promote information science's advancement as well as its use and innovation in the artificial intelligence field. The conference is organized by the ASIS&T Asia Chapter Committee and held by the Department of Information Management, Peking University.

This year, the ASIS&T Asia Chapter called for papers from all over the world, with the participation of researchers from China, U.S., the Netherlands, Sweden, and Japan. The submitted papers were peer-reviewed by the conference organization and revised by the authors. Finally, a total of 23 papers were presented orally at the conference, covering a wide range of fields, including artificial intelligence, information behavior, open science, etc. Six sub-forums were set up for the conference, which were Developing LIS, Transformative Technologies, Health and Consumption, Diverse Social Media, Behavior in Action, and Novel Reading.

At the closing ceremony, Director Ding Nian of the Editorial Office of Data Information Management Journal, the supporting journal of the conference, read out the list of papers to be accepted. Prof. Zhao Yuxiang, the chair of the 2023–2024 chapter, announced that next year's annual conference would be held at Nanjing University.

Read more about the 2023 conference and find out more about the 2024 conference committee here.