[Sigtis-l] Call for Proposals: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries at JCDL 2015 (Due 4/18)

[Yi Shen]

WADL 2015 — Web Archiving and Digital Libraries
(http://dlib.vt.edu/WADL2015)
(a JCDL 2015 (http://www.jcdl2015.org), Knoxville TN; 6/24-25 Workshop)

June 24      Activities (single track)
2:30-3:00     opening, introductions
3-3:30        panel: technical challenges
3:30-4        panel: organization & institutional social perspectives
4-4:30        demonstrations
4:30-5:30     poster session: all attendees are encouraged to bring a poster

June 25      Activities (single track)
8-9           registration, continental breakfast
9-9:30        lightening talks (e.g., on posters, demonstrations)
9:30-10:30    selected presentations
10:30-11      break
11-12         selected presentations
12-1          plenary discussion: future directions and collaboration

Submissions (please provide contact and supporting info in <= 1 page):
    EasyChair submission page
      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadl2015
    Due April 18; Notification will be by May 8. Categories are:
    Poster + lightening talk
    Demonstration + lightening talk
    15 min. meeting/conference report related to WADL, including Q&A
    20 min. presentation + 10 min. Q&A
    30 min. panel with interactive plenary discussion

Description:
This will explore the integration of web archiving and digital
libraries, over the complete life cycle: creation/authoring, uploading/
publishing in the Web, . . .
 It will cover all topics of interest, including but not limited to:
   - Archiving (events)
   - Big data
   - Classification
   - Community building
   - Crawling (focused)
   - Curation, quality control
   - Databases / collections
   - Discovery
   - Extraction & analysis
   - Filling gaps
   - Globalization, languages
   - Linking archives
   - Metadata
   - Mobile devices
   - Network science
   - Preservation
   - Resource description
   - Social sciences
   - Standards, protocols
   - Systems, tools
   - Tweet connections

Objectives:
 - to build the community of people integrating web archiving & DLs
 - to help attendees learn about useful methods, systems, and software
 - to help chart future research and improved practice in this area
 - to promote synergistic efforts including collaborative projects,
proposals
 - to produce an archival publication that will help advance technology
    and practice
 - to spot work for a planned journal special issue, in Springer’s IJDL:
http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799


Workshop Co-chairs:
-  Chair, Edward A. Fox, Professor and Director Digital Library Research
    Laboratory, Virginia Tech, fox at vt.edu, http://fox.cs.vt.edu,
540-231-5113
-  Co-chair, Zhiwu Xie, zhiwuxie at vt.edu, Associate Professor and Technology
    Development Librarian, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship,
    University Libraries, Virginia Tech, 540-231-4453

Organizing Committee:
    Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, jefferson at archive.org
    Prashant Chandrasekar, Virginia Tech, peecee at vt.edu
    Mohamed Magdy Farig, Virginia Tech, mmagdy at vt.edu
    Vinay Goel, Internet Archive, vinay at archive.org
    Martin Klein, UCLA, mklein at library.ucla.edu
    Frank McCown, Harding University, fmccown at harding.edu
    Michael Nelson, Old Dominion Univ., mln at cs.odu.edu
    Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, rauber at ifs.tuwien.ac.at
    Matthew Weber, Rutgers, matthew.weber at rutgers.edu

Closely related event and results:
- Working with Internet Archives for Research (WIRE 2014) NSF workshop,
   17-18 June 2014, Cambridge, MA – see
http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/nsfia/
- Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL’13), 7/25-26, at JCDL 2013, see
http://www.ctrnet.net/sites/default/files/JCDL2013WorkshopWebArchiving20130603.pdf
 and report in SIGIR Forum http://sigir.org/files/forum/2013D/p128.pdf
- Web Archive Globalization Workshop, WAG 2011 – see
   http://cs.harding.edu/wag2011/, with 4 organizers plus 5 presenters
   and about 20 participants, held in Ottawa after JCDL 2011 (June 16-17)
- Ongoing work by attendees in this area, growth in collaborative activity
   involving the Internet Archive, and specific community building successes
   like the Web Archive Cooperative – see http://infolab.stanford.edu/wac/
- Annual meetings of the International Internet Preservation Consortium
  (IIPC), partner meetings of the Internet Archive (Archive-It), and ten
  workshops held with ECDL/TPDL: International Web Archiving Workshop
  (IWAW), 2001-2010


Yi Shen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Research Environments Librarian
Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
Virginia Tech
540-231-5329
https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/YiShen
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