Editorial Activities

Section Editor for Digital libraries , Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)

Editorial advisory board member: Library Review, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Conference Committees

• Program Committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,
• Indiana, July 22-26, 2013
• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 6-8, 2013.
• Program Committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Washington D.C., June 10-14, 2012.
• Program Committee member, Canadian Assocition for Information Science (CAIS) 40th Annual Conference, Wilfred Lurier Univeristy/ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 31-June 2, 2012.
• Program Committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011.
• Program Committee member, 39th Annual Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference,June 2-4, 2011, Fredricton, New Brunswcik, Canada.
• Program Committee member, American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2010) Pittsburg, PA, October 22-27.

• Program Committee member, IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2009 Rome, Italy 19 - 21 November 2009, reviewed six full papers.

• Program committee member, the 10th biennial International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), August 5-8 2008, Université de Montréal Québec, Canada.

• Member of the scientific committee, IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2008, Algarve , Portugal , 10-13 April 2008

• Member of the scientific committee, IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2007, February 17-20, 2007 – Salamanca, Spain.

• Member of the scientific committee, IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2006, San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 February 2006.


• Program committee member, 18th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 19-23, 2007.


• Program committee member, 17th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Wyndham Hotel, Washington D.C., USA. May 21-24, 2006


• Program committee member, 16th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, San Diego, California, USA, May 15-18, 2005.


• Program committee member, 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K.

I have been the associate editor of "Informer", the quarterly newsletter of the British Computing Society Information Retrieval Special Group (BCS/IRSG) from 2001 to 2003.

I have reviewed papers and posters for:

• IA Summit 2008: "Experiencing Information", Miami, Florida, USA, April 10-14, 2008.

• 17th Information Resources Management Association (IRM) International Conference (2006), 21-24 May, Washington D.C., USA.


• 16th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference (2005), San Diego, California, USA.


• European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004) 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K.


• 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control October 5-8, 2003, Texas, USA.


• 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002) , Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval Systems March 10-14 Madrid, Spain.


• Journal of Information Science
• Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T)

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