[Sigiii-l] JCDL - Doctoral Consortium - Deadline: March 20, 2007

[Nadia Caidi]

...Please Circulate Widely...

Are you a Doctoral student in the early phases of your dissertation
work? Are you researching Digital Libraries issues?

Then consider participating in the *Doctoral Consortium* at the ACM-IEEE
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) conference, to be held in
beautiful *Vancouver* from June 18-23, 2007.

Travel support is provided for as many students as funding allows.

See email below or check our website at:
http://www.jcdl2007.org/doctoral.htm

We will see you there!

Dr. Nadia Caidi
Doctoral Consortium Chair, JCDL 2007

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WHAT IS THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM?
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 work 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.

WHY SHOULD I PARTICIPATE?
Prominent professors and experienced practitioners in the field of
digital library research (from different countries) 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 among Ph.D. studies in different countries.

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

HOW DO I APPLY?
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 submitted in electronic form via
the JCDL 2007 submission web page by *March 20, 2007*. 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.

THE BEST PART: TRAVEL SUPPORT!!!
An NSF grant on DL curriculum development (see
http://curric.dlib.vt.edu/) has allocated $1000 each for 10 participants
to help cover expenses. Those seeking this support should state their
interest in their submission document. Preference will be given to US
citizens. Those receiving support must agree, and have their thesis
supervisor also agree, to help in the development of DL curricular
resources. For example, they may review modules being developed that
relate to their DL specialty area, and may prepare a small module as
their dissertation is completed so others may have an easier time
understanding their work, in the context of related work.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20th, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2007
Camera-ready papers due: May 1st, 2007
JCDL 2007: June 17-23rd, 2007
Doctoral Consortium: June 19, 2007 	

Requests for more information should be e-mailed to
doctconsort at jcdl2007.org.