GL10 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature
Designing the Grey Grid for Informational Society
Science Park Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 8-9, 2008
Call for Papers can be found at:http://www.textrelease.com/callforpapers.html
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The needs and demands of Information Society are in constant state of change and flux. Information overload, information loss, information-on-demand are among just a few of the many factors confronting information professionals, practitioners, and net-users on a daily basis.
To a great extent, grey literature is the cause of all this. For the past two decades grey literature has grown exponentially in relation to commercially published literature. The grey literature community realizes that while the challenges faced at the First International Conference on Grey Literature in 1993 may not have all been resolved, solutions today lay in a whole new order, on yet another scale and magnitude than ever before. GL10 seeks to address the challenges to grey literature that still remain, while dealing with even newer challenges and an infrastructure that can effectively integrate all.
The title of this year's conference, 'Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society' invokes an infrastructure, which must take into account social, political, and organizational factors. For these also impact system-to-system performance when dealing with the scale and diversity of information, data, document types, collections, and subject areas linked to grey literature. As such, interoperability becomes de facto a requirement in the design of the grey grid i.e. an infrastructure that can model and withstand the test of an ever changing Information Society.
PROPOSED SESSION THEMES:
* Born digital and web-based grey: Challenges for library systems and collections
* Interoperability in the Grey Grid: Data, metadata, datasets, and databanks
* Non-text and multimedia grey literature, Signs of our times
* Grey Life Cycle: Uses, applications, and impact of GL on Information Society
* Towards Grey Scholarship: Research, education, and other policy driven programmes
FOR MORE ON GL10
The GL-Conference Series is based on a Call-for-Papers that will follow shortly upon this announcement. Likewise, a monthly conference memorandum will be issued by the Program and Conference Bureau in order to keep delegates, authors, participants, and other information professionals informed on the progress of the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature. If you would like to receive a free copy of this monthly publication, please let us know.
CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
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GL10 Program and Conference Bureau
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax: +31(0)20-331.2420
Email: conference@textrelease.com
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