[Students-l] [Fwd: [Asis-l] JCDL/ICADL Doctoral Consortium]

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] JCDL/ICADL Doctoral Consortium
Date: 	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:40:59 +1300
From: 	Sally Jo Cunningham <sallyjo at cs.waikato.ac.nz>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org



Please spread the word about the JCDL Doctoral Consortium!  Note that
there is the possibility of financial support for travel for
participants, and that thanks to the kind sponsorship of NTU and UBC,
there is no charge for the participants for the event itself.



The Doctoral Consortium of the JOINT JCDL/ICADL


   INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES CONFERENCE

*/Call for Participation/*

*/June 21 - 25, 2010 – Surfer’s Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia/*

For the first time in 2010, the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific
Digital Libraries (ICADL) will be held together at the Gold Coast in
Australia.  A Doctoral Consortium, part of the joint program, will be
co-sponsored by the two conferences on *June 21, 2010*.

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*What is the Doctoral Consortium?*



The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. 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 will present and
discuss their research in the context of a well-known and established
international conference, in a supportive atmosphere with other doctoral
students and a panel of established researchers. The workshop will take
place on a single full day (June 21, 2010). Limited funding may be
available to partially offset travel and registration costs for those
students with financial need.
A panel of prominent professors and experienced practitioners in the
field of digital library research in organizations from different
countries and continents 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 10 to
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 of Ph.D. studies in different countries.
The Doctoral Consortium is jointly sponsored by the School of Library,
Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore.  There is no registration fee for
doctoral students who are accepted for the Doctoral Consortium.
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       Call for Papers and Topics


       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.

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide an
extended abstract of your doctoral work and upload it from the link on
the Doctoral Consortium
webpage, http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/doccon.php. 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.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness,
and clarity. Workshop participation is limited to 15 Ph.D. students.
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For further details please contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:

     * *Edie Rasmussen* ( University of British Columbia )
       at edie.rasmussen at ubc.ca <mailto:edie.rasmussen at ubc.ca>
     * *Schubert Foo* ( Nanyang Technological University )
       at sfoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg <mailto:sfoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg>

*Proceedings*

Accepted abstracts will be distributed to participants as the workshop
proceedings.  Participants will be invited to publish a revised version
of their position papers in a special issue of the /TCDL Bulletin/, the
publication of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries.

  *Important Dates*



March 31, 2010                                    Deadline for
submission of abstracts

April 20, 2010                      Notification of acceptance

June 21, 2010                      Doctoral Consortium

June 21 - 25, 2010             ICADL/JCDL 2010


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