[Sigcr-l] Call for paper for Genres of Digital Documents Minitrack

[Barbara Kwasnik]

Dear fellow classification junkies, Please consider sending a submission. I would personally be very pleased if the area of genre research could tap into the body of knowledge of classification research. It seems a natural intersection to me. Before you say "nah... not for me..." you might want to check out previous contributions to this minitrack. Go to the HICSS website identified in the call, and click through to previous conferences. The Genre of Digital Documents minitrack is in the Digital Documents track of HICSS.  The 2004 conference has a paper by Kevin Crowston and me that makes the link between genre and IR, and proposes a facetted approach to genre analysis. And anyway, the whole IDEA of genre is a classification issue, isn't it?

Please excuse cross postings. I'm posting to the ISKO list as well. Pleaes also post at your schools and organizations as appropriate. Thanks. All my best, Barbara

HICSS-39
CALL FOR PAPERS
Thirty-ninth Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
January 4 - 7, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Kauai 


Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 
Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and 	 http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ 

We invite papers for a Minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents. Document genres are communicative actions with a socially recognized communicative purpose and/or common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Such genres are situated in complex communicative practices; they are anchored in specific institutions and processes and can be equally applicable to physical as well as electronic documents. Recognizing the genre of a document is useful because it helps build an understanding among communicating parties. Besides enhancing our understanding of information searching and use, studying genres provides insights into organizational or community structures, since each community generates its own set of communicative genres.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the use of digital media brings with it the emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication. In a digital environment, documents have functionality as well as form and content, but in many ways the contextual clues by which functionality can be ascertained may be missing. For this reason, genre provides a certain fixity in communication and becomes increasingly important in providing users a resource for the interpretation of the content, role, and function of a digital document.

Suggested topics for the Minitrack include:
o	Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form 
o	The evolution of genres of digital documents 
o	Genre theory and its application to digital documents 
o	Genre emergence and evolution 
o	Investigations of genre in use in organizational settings
o	Analyses of particular document genres
o	Genre-specific automated classification/categorization/routing/filtering of text documents, including spam and deception detection
o	Genre-specific document search and summarization
o	Genres of non-text digital documents 
o	Genres for electronic commerce
o	Designing systems in support of and using genres

Minitrack co-chairs:
Barbara Kwa*nik, Professor (please address all correspondence to this address)
4-206 CST
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315 443-2911
Fax: 315 443-5806
bkwasnik at syr.edu 

Natalia Levina, Assistant Professor
Information, Operations, and Management Sciences Department
Stern School of Business, New York University.
44 W. 4th Street, KMEC 8-78
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-998-0850
nlevina at stern.nyu.edu 


Dmitri Roussinov, Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Office: BA 267 E
P.O Box 873606
Tempe, AZ, 85287
 Phone: (480) 965-8488
 dmitri.roussinov at asu.edu 
 http://www.public.asu.edu/~droussi/ 


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Abstracts	- Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of    appropriate content at any time.

June 15	- Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. 

August 15	- Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review    System.

September 15	- Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission
New Date! 	instructions on the Peer Review System web site.  At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper.  Early Registration fee $525 applies.

October 2	-  General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10.

December 10	-  Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate.
-	Deadline to receive conference registration refund.
-	Late registration fee $675 applies.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.

* Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. 

* (Optional)  Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content.

* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair.   If unsure of which Minitrack is   appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance.  

* HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. 

* Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website.  


HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS 
Collaboration Systems and Technology 
Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs   bbriggs at GroupSystems; 
Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker     nunamaker at cmi.arizona.edu 

Decision Technologies for Management 
Chair: Dan Dolk   drdolk at nps.edu 

Digital Media: Content and Communication 
Chair: Michael Shepherd   shepherd at cs.cal.ca                         

E-Government 
Chair: H. Jochen Scholl   jscholl at u.washington.edu  
	
Information Technology in Health Care 
Chair: William Chismar  chismar at hawaii.edu 

Internet & the Digital Economy 
Co-chair: David King    david.king at jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis  ardennis at indiana.edu 

Knowledge Management Systems 
Co-chair: Murray Jennex   murphjen at aol.com; Dave Croasdell    davec at unr.edu 

Organizational Systems & Technology 
Chair: Hugh Watson   hwatson at terry.uga.edu 

Software Technology 
Chair: Gul Agha   agha at cs.uiuc.edu 

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.   Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings.  Submissions must not have been previously published.


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2006 CONFERENCE VENUE
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