The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is seeking proposals for an Undergraduate, Master’s, and Recently Graduated Students (having graduated May 2011 or later) research program at the ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting in Montreal on November 3 – 6, 2013.

This session is intended to provide students with an opportunity to present their work during the main conference on areas of interest relevant to information and knowledge management. The session will also serve as a social meeting point to facilitate networking between students, faculty, and professionals. Note: students do not have to attend the conference in order to qualify. To accommodate students who cannot attend the conference, we are accepting pre-made video presentations and mailed-in posters. All abstracts, presentation media, and posters will be published on the SIG DL website after the conference.

Submission Deadline is September 16, 2013. Read the full CFP.
Vielleicht schafft der eine oder andere die Deadline noch!

Folgender Call for Papers erreichte uns:

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“Call for Papers

Workshop to be held in connection with TPDL 2013, September 26th, 2013, Valletta, Malta

Moving beyond technology: iSchools and education in data curation.
Is Data Curator a new role ?
Workshop background
The increase of digital content in the broad areas of Institutional and domain specific Repositories, Libraries, Archives and Museums and the increased interest in the sharing and preservation of “research data” have triggered the emergence of some buzz words that more and more appear in the literature, such as Convergence (in this context the merging of the education curricula and the professions for information professionals in the disciplines of Library Science, Archival, and Museum Studies), Digital Curation (in this context the actions needed to enrich and maintain digital material over its entire life-cycle and over time, for current and future generations of users) and Data Curator (in this context the person/organization responsible for all the activities connected with the management/curation of digital data, in particular of research data).

Workshop objectives
The main objective of the workshop is to provide additional insight in the complex interplay between education, research and curation (including long term preservation) of digital data. In more practical terms, it is expected to contribute to a more precise definition of the content of the curricula needed for the education and training of the information professionals, gain a better understanding of the level at which a convergence of the three traditional professions could be achieved, contribute to a more global view of the access and preservation of research outcomes (for present and future sharing), which today are very often scattered in libraries, archives, institutional repositories, data bases, etc.

The full-day workshop (on September 26th) will be held in connection with the TPDL 2013 Conference (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries), to be held on September 22-26, 2013 in Valletta, Malta. Expected contributors and participants in the conference and in this workshop are educators, information professionals involved in the storage and preservation of research data, scholars from different disciplines interested in understanding and achieving the preservation of their research data. The workshop intends to provide an opportunity for discussing and sharing experiences both in research and education, especially in the context of curation of research data. A satellite event at TPDL(G-WiS: Global Collaboration of iSchools) can provide additional opportunities for contributions and participation from scholars and educators in iSchools, traditionally in the forefront for innovative curricula and adaptation to a changing environment in education, research and professional activities. A more detailed description of the workshop can be found at the TPDL web site.

Call for contributions
We invite contributions and concrete examples of research projects, educational programmes and training initiatives in digital curation and research data management, illustrating approaches, methodologies and success stories addressing the need for an increasingly qualified “information workforce” in the data library, data centre, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Who is the Digital Curator ?
Education of researchers and curators for the present and the future
Core skills for the data scientist
Training programmes and modules
How are data curation skills embedded in curricula ?
Data science curricula: building human capacity
Lifelong learning in digital curation
Existing opportunities for information professionals
Sustainability of digital curation curricula
Multimodal methods of teaching and learning digital curation
Capitalizing on the value of open data
Data publication and its role in scholarly communication
Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
Tensions between maintaining openness and ownership
Workflows in the data life-cycle
Effective management, sharing and reuse of data
Mobile data services to enhance teaching, learning and research
Implementation of cultural changes: barriers and enablers
How curators are deployed in practice?
What are the new research and development results in data curation?
Curation of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and/or mixed data collections
Convergence for the next generation of data preservation and curation

Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research or position papers related to the topics mentioned above or, more generally, to the objectives of the workshop. All submissions are required to be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format.
Please submit your contribution using the EasyChair online submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datacur2013

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted must be presented by a workshop registered participant.
Depending on the quality and number of papers submitted, the organizers will evaluate the possibility of publishing the workshop proceedings.

Important dates
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013
Acceptance Notification: July 28, 2013
Final version submission: August 25, 2013
Workshop: September 26, 2013

Organizing and Meta-Program Committee
Vittore Casarosa (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Donatella Castelli (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Seamus Ross (University of Toronto)
Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma)

Program Committee
Kevin Ashley (Digital Curation Centre, UK)
Christoph Becker (University of Toronto)
Toni Carbo (Drexel University, USA)
Paul Conway (University of Michigan)
Kate Fernie (MDR Partners, UK))
Mariella Guercio (University of Roma La Sapienza)
Carolyn Hank (University of Tennessee)
Cal Lee (University of North Carolina)
Jens Ludwig (Göttingen State and University Library)
John McDonald (University of Toronto)
Nancy McGovern (MIT)
Andy Rauber (Technical University of Vienna)
Michael Seadle (Humboldt University, Berlin))
Stefan Strathmann (Göttingen State and University Library)
Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne)
Terry Weech (University of Illinois)”

Vor allem für New Professionals interessant…

Bis zur 5ten iConference in Illinois ist es nicht mehr lang (03.-06.02.2010)  und bis zum 18.11.2009 können noch Abstracts für Papers, Poster, “roundtable discussions” und “wildcards” (siehe Anhang) eingereicht werden. Das Thema für 2010 ist iMPACTS. Unter anderem spielen Fragen wie: “What are the broad impacts (actualized and potential) of  the iSchool movement? How can impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences?” eine Rolle.

Mehr Informationen findet man im Anhang (siehe Link unten), oder http://www.ischools.org

Call for Participation

Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action
October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA
http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/

:: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ::
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Psychology & Management,
Claremont Graduate University, USA
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory,
California Nanosystems Institute, USA
Jane Prophet, Professor of Interdisciplinary Computing,
Goldsmiths University of London, UK

:: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ::
Full Papers, Art Exhibition, Live Performances, Demonstrations,
Posters, Workshops, Tutorials, Graduate Symposium
Submission deadline: April 24, 2009
For more information and submission process see:
www.creativityandcognition09.org

Creativity is present in all we do. The 7th Creativity and
Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the
Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable
everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative
activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages
can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages
support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How
do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages
participation in everyday creativity?

The Creativity and Cognition Conference series started in 1993
and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI. The conference provides a forum
for lively interdisciplinary debate exploring methods and tools
to support creativity at the intersection of art and technology.
We welcome submissions from academics and practitioners, makers
and scientists, artists and theoreticians. This year’s
broad theme of Everyday Creativity reflects the new forms of
creativity emerging in everyday life, and includes topics of:

- Collective creativity and creative communities
- Shared languages and Participatory creativity
- Incubating creativity and supporting Innovation
- DIY and folk creativity
- Democratising creativity
- New materials for creativity
- Enriching the collaborative experience

We welcome the following forms of submission:
- Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
- In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
- Reflective and theoretical accounts of individual and
collaborative practice
- Principles of interaction design and requirements for
creativity support tools
- Educational and training methods
- Interdisciplinary methods, and models of creativity and
collaboration
- Analyses of the role of technology in supporting everyday
creativity

:: BERKELEY ART MUSEUM ::
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the
visual arts centre of the University of California, Berkeley,
and one of the largest university art museums in the United
States. The museum is steeped in a history of radical
interdisciplinary creativity and provides the ideal environment
for researchers, practitioners and artists to come together to
examine and reflect on the role of technology in Everyday
Creativity.

:: PROCEEDINGS ::
All submissions will be peer reviewed. Printed proceedings,
published by ACM Press, will be available at the conference and
will be included in the ACM digital library.
We aim to produce special issue(s) of international journals (to
be confirmed) from the Creativity & Cognition conference.

Rechtzeitig zum heute erstmalig stattfindenden Internationalen Open Access-Tag hat die LIBREAS-Redaktion den Call for Papers für die nächste Ausgabe von LIBREAS. Library Ideas mit dem Arbeitstitel “Elektronisches Publizieren und Geisteswissenschaften” fertiggestellt. Dabei beschäftigt sich die kommende Ausgabe jedoch nicht nur mit dem Stellenwert von Open Access in den Geisteswissenschaften. Vielmehr forscht sie nach den spezifischen Hintergründen der Wissenschaftskommunikation im geisteswissenschaftlichen Bereich und inwieweit der freie Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Information überhaupt eine Rolle spielt. Welche Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten gibt es für das elektronische Publizieren gerade im geisteswissenschaftlichen Sektor? Wie könnten Alternativen zur derzeitigen Form der Wissenschaftskommunikation dort aussehen?

Um die 14. Ausgabe von LIBREAS mit Inhalt und Leben zu füllen, seien alle Interessierten herzlich auf den Call for Papers (hier in englischer Sprache) hingewiesen und zum regen Meinungs- und Gedankenaustausch eingeladen. Senden Sie uns Ihre Manuskripte zum Thema und sorgen Sie so für eine kontroverse Diskussion und eine weitere spannende Ausgabe von LIBREAS! Der Redaktionsschluss ist Anfang Januar 2009.

Vom 1.-3. April 2009 wird an der Universität Konstanz die gemeinsame Tagung des Hochschulverbands Informationswissenschaft (11. Internationale Symposium für Informationswissenschaft) und der IuK-Initiative Wissenschaft (15. Jahrestagung) ISI 2009 mit dem Thema “Information: Droge, Ware oder Commons?
Wertschöpfungs- und Transformationsprozesse auf den Informationsmärkten” stattfinden. Weitere Information sowie den Call for Papers gibt es auf der Webseite www.isi2009.de. Für das studentische Programm wird es einen eigenen Call for Papers geben. Weiterhin interessant ist die Verleihung des Gerhard-Lustig Preises für studentische Abschlussarbeiten.