[Asis-l] JCDL Doctoral Forum

[Ray Larson]

 The Doctoral Consortium of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
			Call for Participation

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA), 11 June 2006
				   

What is the Doctoral Consortium?

The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over
the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work
(I.e., the consortium is not intended for those who are finished or
nearly finished with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral
Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by
providing feedback and general advice on using the research
environment in a constructive and international atmosphere. Students
will present and discuss their thesis in the context of a well-known
and established international conference outside of their usual
university atmosphere. The workshop will take place on a single full
day. Up to 15 students will have the opportunity to participate.

Six prominent professors and one experienced practitioner in the field
of digital library research in organizations from different countries
and continents will conduct the workshop. They will review all the
submissions and comment on the content of the thesis as well as on the
presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research,
focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so
far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes is
reserved for discussion and feedback from both the professors and
other participants. In the course of the workshop students will also
get advice on more general questions, e.g. the differences of
Ph.D. studies in different countries.

The consortium will also have a guest speaker who will address key
issues and activities related to digital library research worldwide.

Call for Papers and Topics

Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should
submit an extended abstract (see details below) describing their
Digital Library research. Submissions relating to any aspect of
Digital Library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed,
including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy
analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical
contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative
applications in the sciences, humanities, and education.

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide
an extended abstract of your doctoral work to
ray at sims.berkeley.edu. The extended abstract is restricted to 4000
words (approx. 8 pages). Submissions should be submitted
electronically in pdf-format. The abstracts should

clearly formulate the research question, identify the significant
problems in the field of research, summarize the current knowledge of
the problem domain, as well as the state of the art for solutions,
clearly present any preliminary research plans and ideas, and the
results achieved so far, sketch the research methodology that is to be
applied, describe the expected contributions of the applicant to the
research area, and (for technical research) describes how the research
is innovative, novel or extends existing approaches to a problem.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness,
and clarity. Workshop participation is limited to 15 Ph.D. students.

Proceedings

Accepted abstracts will be distributed to participants as the workshop
proceedings and made available to participants via the JCDL Doctoral
Consortium Digital.  Important Dates

Deadline for submission of abstracts:		March 20th, 2006
Notification of acceptance:			April 4th, 2006
Camera-ready papers due:			May 1st, 2006
JCDL 2006:					June 11-15th, 2006
Doctoral Consortium:				June 11th, 2006


Contact Address

Submissions or other requests for information should be e-mailed to
ray at sims.berkeley.edu


Accompanying Professors

Ray R. Larson  (Chair)
University of California, Berkeley, USA
School of Information Management and Systems
ray at sims.berkeley.edu
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/

Geneva Henry (accompanying practitioner)
Rice University, Houston, USA
Rice Digital Library Initiative
ghenry at rice.edu

Rudi Schmiede
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Department of Sociology
schmiede at ifs.tu-darmstadt.de
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/soziologie/personen/schmiede.html

Ingeborg Solvberg
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Department of Computer and Information Science
Ingeborg.Solvberg at idi.ntnu.no
http://www.norslis.net/contactpersons/ineborgsolvberg.html

Birger Larsen
Department of Information Studies
Royal School of Library and Information Studies, Denmark
blar at db.dk
http://www.db.dk/blar

Edward A. Fox
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech, USA)
fox at vt.edu
http://fox.cs.vt.edu