[Sigdl-l] CFP: JCDL 2009 Workshop - Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians

[Mick Khoo]

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

“Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians”

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Austin, Texas, USA, June
15-19, 2009

ORGANIZERS
Michael Khoo, the iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
George Buchanan, Center for HCI Design, City University, London, U.K.
Sally Jo Cunningham, Computer Science Dept., University of Waikato,
Hamilton, New Zealand

For further information, and to submit abstracts, please contact:
michael.khoo at ischool.drexel.edu

The submission deadline for abstracts is Friday May 8th. Notification
of acceptance will be sent out by May 20th. Deadline for final
position papers is June 8th.

WORKSHOP GOALS
Real-life DL systems require evaluation for funding and to give
feedback to the digital librarians. However, academic evaluation
techniques may be high effort and seek higher levels of confidence and
deeper claims than are needed or appropriate. Lightweight evaluation
methods can therefore play an important role in digital library
research. This workshop will bring together communities that are
seeking effective evaluation techniques that can be applied with
minimal expertise, specialist apparatus or financial costs.

The workshop will appeal to digital librarians wanting to learn about
evaluation, evaluators interested in digital librarians’ practices,
funders, and others. Identifying user-centered evaluation knowledge
will boost digital librarians’ confidence in carrying out evaluation,
and support them to engage in relevant and useful evaluation, while at
the same time satisfying agencies’ wider strategic demands for
substantive program-based evaluation data. The workshop also welcomes
contributions from those who have developed lightweight evaluation
methods for others, and researchers and systems developers who also
need easy to use evaluation techniques

FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
Persons interested in presenting are invited to submit a short (250
word) abstract describing their research by May 10th, for
acceptance/rejection by May 20th. The authors of accepted abstracts
will be invited to submit a longer (600-1000+ word) position paper by
June 8th. The description of relevant case studies is encouraged. The
workshop will consist of a series of themed panels and presentations
of accepted position papers. Presentations will be discussed in a
seminar format by presenters and participants. All attendees will be
encouraged to make significant contributions, and to draw links
between the presentations and their own experiences.
Accepted position papers will be collated, printed, and distributed at
the workshop. Copies of accepted position papers and a summary of the
workshop will be made available as part of the JCDL Workshop report
made to D-Lib Magazine. After the workshop, opportunities for
submitting expanded versions of selected papers for a special journal
issue on qualitative digital library research will be explored.

LOGISTICS
The workshop is scheduled for June 19. A group dinner is planned for
the evening of June 18.

Work registration fees are as follows.
Advance:
ACM/SIG, IEEE, ASIS&T Members - $200
Non-ACM/SIG, IEEE, ASIS&T Members - $250
Student - $100
Late/On-Site:
ACM/SIG, IEEE, ASIS&T Members - $250
Non-ACM/SIG, IEEE, ASIS&T Members - $275
Student - $150
For further details please see the JCDL Registration page:
http://www.jcdl2009.org/registration

IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATES
May 10: Submission deadline for abstracts
May 20: Notification of acceptance
June 8: Submission deadline for completed position papers
June 18: Evening: Group dinner
June 19: Workshop

IMPORTANT JCDL INFORMATION
Web site:	http://www.jcdl2009.org/
April 1: JCDL advance registration opens online
May 15: JCDL advance registration closes
June 15: Conference: Tutorials
June 16-18: Conference: Panels
June 19: Conference: Workshops


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