{"id":7159,"date":"2021-10-21T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2021-10-21T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:00:31","slug":"in-the-autumn-2021-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7159","title":{"rendered":"In the Autumn 2021 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve given a lot of prominence to the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/search-solutions-2021-23-24-november-2\/\">Search Solutions 2021<\/a> event on 23\/24 November with Tutorials on the Tuesday\u00a0 and the Conference on the Wednesday. Apart from one tutorial it will (sadly) be a virtual event. The IRSG AGM will take place at the end of the Conference, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/call-for-nominations-to-the-bcs-irsg-committee\/\">call for nominations<\/a> to the Committee is included in this issue. Over the last few months the <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/irsg-web-site-revisions\/\">IRSG web site<\/a> has been cleansed and migrated into the BCS Group template. We are working on a new template for Informer, but that may not be visible until early 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/ecir-2022-stavanger-10-14-april-2022\/\">ECIR 2022<\/a> is now gathering momentum. It will be held on-site in Stavanger on 10-14 April but there will also be support for virtually-attending delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The two feature articles this month are on the newly-announced <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/ir-and-acl-anthologies\/\">IR Anthology<\/a>, with some 60,000 research papers on information retrieval, and on the impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/big-information-and-big-budgets\/\">IT budgets<\/a> of moving search from on-premise to cloud platforms. There is a brief note on the publication of a <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/history-of-the-institute-of-information-scientists-1958-2002\/\">history of the Institute of Information Scientists<\/a> (1958-2002) and a review of an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/book-review-between-the-spreadsheets-susan-walsh\/\">book by Susan Walsh<\/a> on classifying and fixing dirty data. And finally an alert to a profile I am writing on the life and achievements of <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/and-finally-6\/\">G. Malcolm Dyson<\/a> (1902-1978) a brilliant British chemist who transformed the fortunes of Chemical Abstracts Service whilst acting as Director of Research from 1959-1962. The issue closes with a comprehensive list of <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/2021\/10\/events-autumn-2021\/\">forthcoming conferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this issue has been authored by me and that should not be the case. I\u2019d be delighted to have contributions from members of IRSG about (just as examples)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research projects you are working on<\/li>\n<li>Conferences you have participated in<\/li>\n<li>Departments that you are proud of<\/li>\n<li>Visions of the future you would like to test out<\/li>\n<li>People who have inspired you to take IR seriously<\/li>\n<li>Books you have enjoyed (or perhaps not enjoyed!) reading<\/li>\n<li>Applications you have developed<\/li>\n<li>Problems you are facing and would welcome solutions<\/li>\n<li>Problems you have solved which may have a wider application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve given a lot of prominence to the forthcoming Search Solutions 2021 event on 23\/24 November with Tutorials on the Tuesday\u00a0 and the Conference on the Wednesday. Apart from one tutorial it will (sadly) be a virtual event. The IRSG AGM will take place at the end of the Conference, and a call for nominations&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7159\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Autumn 2021 issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-2021","category-editorial","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}