[Asis-l] FINAL CFP: Special Issue of JoDI on Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content

[Goh Hoe Lian, Dion (Assoc Prof)]

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS


FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information
Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content 


The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information repository where
access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform for
collaboration in which content is generated and shared among users. Also
popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications include blogs,
wikis, social networking, media sharing and social tagging, among many
others. As this new avenue for content-generation becomes increasingly
popular, the resulting information explosion requires new techniques and
applications to manage, search and access such content.

The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) aims to
explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various technologies
underlying user-generated content to provide innovative and useful
services for their users. Since such technologies are potentially
disruptive, the special issue will also investigate how support for
user-generated content would impact digital libraries, their
administrators, users and other stakeholders.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Use of Web 2.0 technologies in digital libraries
* Mobile services in digital libraries
* Supporting digital library infrastructure and architecture
* Information retrieval and mining techniques
* Virtual worlds and digital libraries
* User communities
* Usability and user needs
* Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content
* Social, institutional and policy issues


Guest Editor: Dr Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
Review decisions to authors: 26 May 2008
Submission of final version: 21 July 2008
Publication: Before year end 2008


ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION
Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dion Goh, at
ashlgoh at ntu.edu.sg. 

Submission of papers will be done electronically at:
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/login/?source=/jodi/author/submit
In the keywords field of the submission system, please indicate that the
paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital Libraries and
User-Generated Content.

Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions may be
found at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/about/submissions

More information about JoDI may be obtained from:
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

Please also visit the following URL for updates on this special issue:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ashlgoh/jodi2008.html