[Sigdl-l] FW: JCDL 2012 Call for Participation

Thu Dec 8 15:59:09 EST 2011

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012)

June 10-14, 2012

Washington, DC, USA

Hosted by The George Washington University and The Library of Congress

http://www.jcdl2012.info <http://www.jcdl2012.info/> 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international
forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical,
organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the
term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of
information institutions and organizations; operational information systems
with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting,
organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models
of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing;
and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

IMPORTANT DATES

   * Full Papers due January 23, 2012

   * Short Papers, Panels, Posters & Demos, Workshops, Tutorials due January
30, 2012

   * Notification of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials: March 1, 2012

   * Notification of acceptance for Papers, Panels, Posters & Demos: March
21, 2012

   * Doctoral Consortium Abstract submissions due March 31, 2012

CONFERENCE FOCUS

The theme for JCDL 2012 is #sharing #linking #using #preserving. Digital
libraries, under a variety of names and modalities, are often part of the
every day web experience. The challenge is how digital libraries can enhance
user experience through providing stability in changing information
environment, breaking down information silos, integrating into accepted
practices of the web, and providing a range of access and services to
resources across the web, both to human and machine users.

The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all
aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata;
content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data
management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer
interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection
development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document
genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user
communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in
these areas, and submissions associated with the JCDL 2012 theme of social
media influenced themes of linking, sharing, usage, and preservation are
particularly welcome. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will
cover all these aspects.

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range
of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer
science, information science, web science, data science, librarianship, data
management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice,
information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities.
Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited
to participate.

JCDL 2012 will be held in Washington, DC on the campus of The George
Washington University. The program is organized by an international
committee of scholars and leaders in the digital libraries field and
attendance is expected to include several hundreds of researchers,
practitioners, managers, and students.

JCDL 2012 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters,
demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an
exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes
contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable digital
libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to:

   * Collaborative and participatory information environments

   * Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments

   * Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information

   * Digital library and Web Science curriculum development

   * Distributed information systems

   * Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections

   * Evaluation of online information environments

   * Impact and evaluation of digital libraries and information in education

   * Information and knowledge systems

   * Information policy and copyright law

   * Information visualization

   * Interfaces to information for novices and experts

   * Linked data and its applications

   * Personal digital information management

   * Retrieval and browsing

   * Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication

   * Social media, architecture, and applications

   * Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information

   * Social-technical perspectives of digital information

   * Studies of human factors in networked information

   * Theoretical models of information interaction and organization

   * User behavior and modeling

   * Visualization of large-scale information environments

   * Web archiving and preservation

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS

All contributions must be submitted in electronic form via the conference's
EasyChair submission page, following ACM format guidelines and template
available from http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Please
submit all papers in PDF format.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Paper authors may choose between two formats: Full papers and short papers.
Both formats will be included in the proceedings and will be presented at
the conference. Both formats will be rigorously peer reviewed. Complete
papers are required-abstracts and incomplete papers will not be reviewed.

Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important
milestone. Short papers will highlight efforts that might be in an early
stage, but are important for the community to be made aware of. Short papers
can also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the
limited space.

Full papers must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4
pages. All papers must be original contributions. The material must
therefore not have been previously published or be under review for
publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must
follow the ACM formatting guidelines,
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers are to be
submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012 

All accepted papers will be published by ACM as conference proceedings and
electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE digital
libraries.

POSTER & DEMOSTRATION SUBMISSIONS

Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal,
interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, extended
abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2
pages. Proposals must follow the conference's formatting guidelines and are
to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. Accepted posters will
be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space
permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations showcase innovative digital libraries technology and
applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues
in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a
title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors and should
not exceed 2 pages. Proposals must follow the conference's formatting
guidelines and are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission
page, 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. Abstracts of
demonstrations will appear in the proceedings.

PANELS & INVITED BRIEFINGS

Panels will complement the refereed portions of the program with lively
discussions of controversial and cutting-edge issues that are not addressed
by other program elements. Invited briefings will explain a topic of
interest to those building digital libraries-they can be thought of as being
mini-tutorials. We are not soliciting formal proposals for panels or invited
briefings, but if you have an idea for one that you'd like to hear, please
send email directly to the panels/briefings chairs, Noha Adly,
adly at bibalex.org, and Haowei Hsieh, haowei-hsieh at uiowa.edu.

TUTORIAL SUBMISSIONS

Tutorials provide an opportunity to offer in-depth education on a topic or
solution relevant to research or practice in digital libraries. They should
address a single topic in detail over either a half-day or a full day. They
are not intended to be venues for commercial product training. Experts who
are interested in engaging members of the community who may not be familiar
with a relevant set of technologies or concepts should plan their tutorials
to cover the topic or solution to a level that attendees will have
sufficient knowledge to follow and further pursue the material beyond the
tutorial. Leaders of tutorial sessions will be expected to take an active
role in publicizing and recruiting attendees for their sessions.

Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2
paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or topical
outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation); duration
(half- or full-day); expected number of participants; target audience,
including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced);
learning objectives; a brief biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and
contact information for the presenter(s).

Tutorial proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the
conference's EasyChair submission page,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012.

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS

Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest-both those
in established communities, and also those interested in discussion and
exploration of a new or emerging issue. They can range in format from
formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed papers, to informal,
perhaps centering on an extended roundtable discussions among the selected
participants.

Submissions should include: a workshop title and short description; a
statement of objectives for the workshop; a topical outline for the
workshop; identification of the expected audience and expected number of
attendees; a description of the planned format and duration (half-day,
full-day, or one-and-a-half day); information about how the attendees will
be identified, notified of the workshop, and, if necessary, selected from
among applicants; as well as contact and biographical information about the
organizers. Finally, if a workshop has been held previously, information
about the earlier sessions should be provided-dates, locations, outcomes,
attendance, etc.

Workshop proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the
conference's EasyChair submission page,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for PhD 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 interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should
submit an extended abstract 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.

Doctoral Consortium proposals are to be submitted via the conference's
EasyChair submission page,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012.

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