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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

The Second International Conference on the Digital Society

ICDS 2008

February 10-15, 2008 - St. Luce, Martinique

Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICDS08.html

Submission: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/SubmitICDS08.html

Important deadlines:

Submission deadline: September 5, 2007

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2007

Registration/camera ready: November 5, 2007

ICDS 2008 Tracks (details in the CfP on site)

* Disruptive and enabling technologies
* Internet
* eCommerce
* Consumer-oriented devices and services
* Intelligent computation
* Networking and telecommunications
* Economics of security and protection
* System advanced paradigms
* Management and control
* Digital analysis and processing
* Mobile devices and biotechnologies
* Software robustness for digital society
* Consumer-oriented digital economics
* Government services in the context of digital society
* ICT support for collaboration
* Information and knowledge management (eknow)
* Telemedicine and eHealth (telemed)

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship(JERL) is a
peer-reviewed journal concerning issues in electronic
resources librarianship. The journal is published quarterly
by The Haworth Press (Taylor & Francis). Submissions are
being accepted for the inaugural and future issues of this
journal. http://www.jerl-info.com/announcement/view/1

JERL is also looking for a Reviews Editor who will be
charged with editing a review section to include books and
other resources of interest in the field.
http://www.jerl-info.com/announcement/view/2

This journal aims to inform librarians and other information
professionals about evolving work-related processes and
procedures, current research and the latest news on topics
related to electronic resources and the digital
environment's impact on collecting, acquiring and making
accessible library materials.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the
following: Collecting electronic resources
• Assessment/evaluation of e-resources, Collection
planning,
Balancing Electronic with print, Determining value of
e-resources, Policies and procedures in maintenance of
digital resources and collections

Managing electronic collections
• Licensing, negotiation, and alternatives, Stewardship
and
Preservation of e-resources, Standards, Cross-functional
work/workflow, Library-vendor relations

Making digital collections accessible to users
• User preferences and expectations, Digital Rights
Management, E-resources delivery/promotion, Information
needs and behavior of users, Marketing and promotion of
e-resources, Search & Locate Tools

Scholarly Communication issues
• Intellectual Property, Copyright and Fair Use, History
of
publishing, Changing nature of research in digital
environment, Economics of e-resources in libraries

Digital Libraries and digital collections
• Digitization/re-digitization projects, Digital
repositories within the larger collection

Changing environment and the effects on libraries
• Planning the digital future, Changing nature of
librarianship, Organizational change,
Collaboration/collaborative work environments

JERL strives to find a balance between original, scholarly
research, and practical communications about relevant topics
in electronic resources librarianship.

The journal will publish the following types of articles:
• Peer-reviewed articles of a scholarly (original
research)
nature • Practice-related articles, such as case studies
or
pieces on the state of the field/new areas of work
• Review articles of books, conferences, and other
resources
of interest in the field
• Editorial/guest columns on topics of interest to those
who
work with electronic resources

Query letters to the editor to determine suitability for the
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship are welcome.

Bonnie Tijerina
Editor, Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
http://www.jerl-info.com

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Bonnie Tijerina
Electronic Resources Coordinator, Collection Development
Georgia Institute of Technology
Library and Information Center
Atlanta, GA 30332-0900
404-385-2044
AIM: bltijerina
bonnie.tijerina@library.gatech.edu

23-25 June, 2008 at the University of Oulu, Finland

The international conference USE-2008 aims at addressing issues related to theoretical conceptions and empirical applications of research on information use in knowledge production processes at different levels of activity in society.

Submissions are invited on all topics concerning information use in knowledge production processes, e.g.

· knowledge management and the research of paradigms of information studies

· knowledge creation as a research object of information studies

· theoretical aspects and models of knowledge creation and production, the perspective of information studies

· theoretical and empirical issues of information use

· methodologies in knowledge behaviour, practices and use, including aspects of information literacy

· information seeking and interactive information retrieval in knowledge production

· innovativeness and knowledge processes

· creativity and innovations

· knowledge-based economy, knowledge production and information professionals

· knowledge production, information, content, documentation, and the materialities

Submissions may be of three types:

Papers. The submission should be of 4500 - 5000 words maximum. The duration of the paper presentation is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer reviewed.
Poster presentations for doctoral research projects in progress. The submissions should be of 500 – 750 words. Poster presentations will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations.
Panels. The submission should be of 1500 – 2000 words. Submissions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper and poster presentations.

The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2007.

Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 13, 2008.

A more detailed call for papers can be found on the website: http://www.oulu.fi/silo/use2008

For more information please contact:

Maija-Leena Huotari
Chair of the International Programme Committee
e-mail: maija-leena.huotari@oulu.fi

Elisabeth Davenport

Co-Chair of the International Programme Committee

e-mail: e.davenport@napier.ac.uk

March 18-21, 2008
Atlanta, GA

Call for Proposals

http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008

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ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008 Conference to be held March 19-21, 2008, with pre-conference sessions on March 18. The conference location will be the Global Learning and Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.

View Track Descriptions: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008/schedConf/trackPolicies

Proposal Deadline: Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early. The Proposal Deadline is Nov. 1, 2007

Proposal Evaluation: The committee will evaluate each proposal on the basis of subject matter (including, but not limited to, the issues listed in the topic descriptions), clarity, and timeliness. Proposals should be for original work that has not been published. We may request that some presenters combine sessions with complementary subject matter.

Compensation: Presenters receive 25% off the cost of registration.

More info: ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services. The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment.

Questions: Please direct questions about the Call for Proposals to Bonnie Tijerina (bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com) or Elizabeth Winter(elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu). Please direct questions related to preconferences to Xan Arch(xanadu@stanford.edu).

ER&L '08 conference details are online at:

http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008

Barbara Blummer
Library Manager
Center for Computing Sciences
bablumm@super.org
301-805-7539

Museums and the Web

April 9-12,2008
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world: Museums and the Web.

Call for Participation Closes September 30, 2007.

Demonstration Proposals will be accepted through December 31, 2007.

For more information go to: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/

Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, senior speakers with extensive experience in Web development review and analyze the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Together, we are transforming communities and organizations.

The MW Program
MW features plenary sessions, parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, commercial exhibits, mini-workshops, professional forums, a usability lab, a design 'Crit Room,' and the Best of the Web awards. The primary language of the conference has always been English, but in 2008, the sessions will be simultaneously translated English/French and /French/English to encourage a wide francophone participation.

Prior to the conference, there are full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops and a day of pre-conference tours, including one to the museums of Ottawa, Canada's national capital.
Social events include receptions each evening, a Birds-of-a-Feather Breakfast, and plenty of refreshment breaks to provide hours of discovery and debate among hundreds of colleagues from around the world.

The MW2008 Program will be selected through peer-review by an International Program Committee based on proposals due September 30, 2007.

Who Attends MW?
Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives join the professionals, companies, foundations and governments that support them and attend Museums and the Web every year.

Scholarships and Volunteers
Archives & Museum Informatics awards MW Scholarships to museum professionals from small institutions and developing countries. For MW2008, The Department of Canadian Heritage has sponsored Scholarships for Canadian Professionals. Scholarship applications are due December 31, 2007.

Students are invited to volunteer at MW; they may attend the conference in exchange for helping out. Preference in 2008 will be given to fully bilingual volunteers. Volunteer applications are accepted until all spaces are filled.

Can't Make It? Get the Book.
MW2008 Presenters will be required to submit written papers; the best will appear in print in Museums and the Web 2008: Selected papers from an international conference. All papers are also published on-line and on CD-ROM. Discounted advance orders of the Selected Papers and CD-ROM Proceedings are now being taken.

Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences – since 1997 – are on-line. Printed volumes of Selected Papers from MW97 – MW2007 are also available to order.

Conference Co-Chairs
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman
Archives & Museum Informatics
158 Lee Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4E 2P3 Canada

Call for Papers

9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)
“Partnerships for Public Innovation”
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada — May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme “Partnerships for Public Innovation” focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

- Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

- Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

- Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

- IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

- Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

- Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

IMPORTANT DATES
- November 1, 2007 – Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/dgo2008/.
- December 1, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
- February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
- February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations.
- March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions.
- March 15, 2008 – All camera ready versions are due.

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS (details are below)
- Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
- Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
- System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
- Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
- Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
- Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format -following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
The dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chair
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Grönlund, Umeå University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autónoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Associate Professor
Director, Sara Fine Institute
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/
School of Information Sciences
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program
University Center for Social and Urban Research
http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/
University of Pittsburgh
121 University Place, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f)
http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu
Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
http://www.jitp.net

CFP: ELPUB2008 (Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0)

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2008
http://www.elpub.net
CFP URL: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~elpub2008/call.html

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

* New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
* New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
* Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
* Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
* Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content
* Content search, analysis and retrieval
* Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery
* Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats)
* Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
* Semantic web issues
* Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
* User generated content and its relation to publisher's content
* Usage and citation impact
* Security, privacy and copyright issues
* Digital preservation, content authentication
* Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

Author Guidelines
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
- Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Tutorial (abstract minimum of 500 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)
- Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
- Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference website

Key Dates:
January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories):

February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted
papers and workshop proposals.

April 11th, 2008: Final papers must be received. See website for
detailed author instructions.

Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought
by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these
contributions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals
will soon be posted on the website.

All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind) and
accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted
full papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference.
Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at:
http://elpub.scix.net

ABOUT ELPUB

The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the previous
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the
United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999),
Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil
(2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007), which
is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians,
developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users
and all those interested in issues regarding electronic
publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the
human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal,
commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting
theme encompasses.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope
of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange
and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications
and electronic publishing; combination of general and technical
issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and
publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most
recent work.

ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops,
tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and demonstrations.
A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be
available to participants (at additional costs). Please see the
conference web site for details.

Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the most
vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large multicultural
population, is the largest city in Canada and the 5th-largest
city in North America. There are many world class galleries and
museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from
around the world at reasonable prices.

Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI),
University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching
institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual
incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the
university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific
study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human
activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary
nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media
technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial
research programs and broad participation in three major areas:
collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of
openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination,
and public policy and citizen engagement.

General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic
Consortium for ICT, Italy: mornati@cilea.it

The Government Information and Official Publications Section invites submissions for its programme for the 74th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress 10-14 August 2008 to be held in Québec, Canada ( http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm). In keeping with the IFLA conference theme, "Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding", the GIOPS sub-theme is "Globalization of government information: creating digital archives for increased access".

Government, non-governmental and intergovernmental knowledge resources play an important role in our global society. Increasingly these resources are either born digital or are being digitized for enhanced access by people everywhere. Governments at many levels, institutions, non-governmental and international organizations, and individuals are collaborating locally, nationally, regionally and internationally to make these resources available digitally and to ensure that they are properly preserved and archived for sustained use by future generations.

Submissions are invited which discuss collaborative digitization projects that make available historical or current official and/or government resources. Topics covered might include the project’s development, content and content management, use of and adherence to digitization standards and benefits to a globalizing world. Submissions of a more theoretical approach will also be considered.

Four papers will be selected for presentation. Proposals for papers must be submitted by 15 January 2008 to Alice Ramohlola ( Alice.Ramohlola@wits.ac.za) with copies to Irja Peltonen (Irja.Peltonen@vm.fi), Jackie Druery, (drueryj@queensu.ca) and Marcy Allen, (mallen@psu.edu). The proposal should include a title, 200-400 word abstract and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s). Successful proposals will be identified by 15 February 2008 and presenters notified. The full paper is due by 15 April 2008. Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc. are the responsibility of the author(s) of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact any of the above.

Jackie Druery
Head, Learning & Research Services
Joseph S. Stauffer Library
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
K7L 5C4
(613) 533-3309
drueryj@post.queensu.ca

http://2008.ecoop.org/

Call for Workshop Proposals

ECOOP 2008 is held in July 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus.

ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas
of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for
exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage.
They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging
approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology.

Workshops may last one or two days.

December 26, 2007 - Deadline for Proposals

March 2, 2008 - Notification of acceptance

For more information visit http://2008.ecoop.org/workshop.html

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 - Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 - Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 - Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 - Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 - Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada - Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China - Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India - Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy - Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico - Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands - Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal - Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena - Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea - Jae Moon - Yonsei University
Sweden - Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey - Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States - Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 - Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 - Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 - Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 - Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 - Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada - Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China - Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India - Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy - Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico - Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands - Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal - Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena - Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea - Jae Moon - Yonsei University
Sweden - Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey - Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States - Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Annual International Course and Conference

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2008

Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia

2-7 June 2008

Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr/ )

Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and

Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (http://www.hotelodisej.hr)

Web site: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/

Email: lida@ffos.hr

The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Since its inception in 2000, LIDA has emphasized the examination of contemporary problems, intriguing advances, innovative approaches and solutions. Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covers research and development and the second part addresses advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable locations.

Deadlines:

For papers and workshops: 15 January 2008. Acceptance by 15 February 2008.

For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2008. Acceptance by 1 March 2008.

Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2008.

Themes LIDA 2008

Part I: Education and training in digital libraries

In a relatively short period of time, spanning less than two decades or so, digital libraries became a global phenomenon, characterized by an accelerated, explosive growth. Digital libraries are a subject of great many activities worldwide. These include diverse practical applications, research and development (R&D) on many fronts, continuing innovation, policy formulations, management changes, and more. A number of fields are involved, among the most prominent being information science, librarianship, and computer science.

Considerable and rapidly growing amounts of funds are spent on practical applications in building and operating a variety of digital library collections, components and service and on R&D in digital libraries. Many commercial enterprises are providing digital resources and software for digital libraries. This all creates demands for well educated and trained professionals in these areas.

However, the education and training for digital libraries is most often based on apprentiship and practical courses and conferences without receiving the same attention (and resources) of digital libraries applications and other areas mentioned. A number of institutions are teaching digital libraries modules and courses, or beginning to, and struggling with this relatively new and volatile educational area. Many practitioners are finding it hard to learn more and to keep up.

The goal of the first part of LIDA 2008 is to explore efforts, concepts and ideas related to education and training of professionals, dealing with the academic quality standards and practical training requirements for digital libraries and in variety of fields and contexts related to knowledge, values and skills needed for digital librarians. The general aim is to help further development of current efforts, as well as development of frameworks within which diverse efforts could be compared, evaluated, and improved.

Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described below):

knowledge, values and skills of the digital librarian to be reflected in educational offerings
conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to digital library education
instructional design, development, and evaluation of programs of study and specialization for digital librarians in a variety of schools and on different levels – existing and proposed
convergence and place of digital library education in broader curricula of library and information science, computer science, and other fields; impact of digital library education on other parts of the curriculum
examples of good practices of specific courses (or sequence of courses)and programs related to various aspects of digital libraries and digital library technology; examples of various modes of delivery
continuing education and training in digital libraries oriented toward practicing professionals
student evaluation of digital library education, as well as expectations and perceptions of professionals in continuing education courses and efforts
international aspects and cooperative opportunities in digital library education
banchmarking and evaluation of educational and training programs in digital libraries
cultural and social elements in digital library education.

Part II: Reference in digital environments

As access to electronic information through library Web pages has proliferated in recent years, an increasing number of libraries have added digital reference assistance to their list of user services. E-mail reference has become an expected venue for asking reference questions, having been included among the suite of information services for over 20 years. Live chat reference services are relatively new-comers, but have already been successfully operating for over 10 years. Information seekers are increasingly turning to virtual reference (also known as digital reference) for the anonymity and convenience of remote access and for the extended hours of operation, since many services operate 24/7/365. An increasing number of libraries and information centers are now experimenting with Instant Messaging, Text Messaging (SMS), and other emerging modes for offering reference services to increasingly tech savvy library users. Web 2.0 applications are opening new vistas for digital library services including reference blogs and wikis. Digital reference desks are appearing in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Although the proliferation of these alternative methods for service delivery highlights the need for research focused on understanding users and staff behavior and impact on issues of satisfaction and success, their assessment poses new challenges for researchers.

The goal of the second part of LIDA 2008 is to explore the totality of the virtual reference environment (including live chat, e-mail, IM, and Web 2.0 reference initiatives) and its relationship to digital libraries. Special attention will be on the evaluation of virtual reference services from a variety of research perspectives and approaches. The general aim is to concentrate on scholarship that increases our understanding of the needs, interests, and experiences of users as well as librarians/information providers in the context of virtual reference.

Invited are contributions (types described below) covering the following topics:

evaluation of various modes of digital library services
application of theories and models in study of users and use of virtual reference
application of theories and user information needs assessments for design and development of digital reference systems
assessment of the decision making process for users who choose virtual reference over other modes (e.g., face-to-face, phone)
advantages and disadvantages of different virtual reference modes
the role of knowledge databases in digital reference
sustainability and cost-effectiveness of virtual reference services
evaluation of virtual reference consortia and comparison of service models
benchmarking service quality and development of evaluation standards in virtual reference
evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of different virtual reference modes
assessment of the quality of interpersonal communication in virtual reference
studies of accuracy and efficiency in virtual reference
explorations of question negotiation in virtual environments
issues in archiving digital reference questions.

Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:

Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that will be presented at the conference and included on the conference Web site. Papers of up to 4000 words in length should be submitted, following the American Psychological Association (APA) style, followed, among others, by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and Information Processing & Management (IP&M). The papers will be refereed. All accepted contributions will be published in on-line proceedings, as well as provided in the conference kit.
Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper.
Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. These should involve some aspect of users and use. Proposals for demonstration should provide short description and a URL address, if available.
Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers. Proposals for workshops should include a short description, with indication of level and potential audience.
PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (EC/ASIST); help and responses by a panel of educators.

Submissions should be sent in electronic format (as an email attachment) to Prof. Tatjana Aparac at taparac@ffos.hr. Inquires can also be addressed to the Co-Chair of the conference Prof. Tefko Saracevic and Program Chairs (for Part I Prof. Jeffrey Pomerantz and Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro

. and for Part II Prof. Marie L. Radford). Full contact information is provided below. All submissions will be refereed.

Deadlines:

For papers and workshops: 15 January 2008. Acceptance by 15 February 2008.

For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2008. Acceptance by 1 March 2008.

Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2008.

Invitation to institutions

We are inviting libraries, information agencies, professional organizations, publishers, and service providers to consider participation at LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or exhibit about their products, services or advances, or by presenting a paper or poster about their activities, as related to themes. Sponsorship of an event is also invited. Institutions can benefit as well: we will provide course materials to participants so that they can communicate and transfer topics of interest to their institution. Thus, we are organizing LIDA to reach a wider audience.

Conference contact information

Course co-directors:

TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D.

Department of Information Sciences

Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University

31000 Osijek, Croatia

taparac@ffos.hr

(contact for general correspondence)
TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D.

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA

tefko@scils.rutgers.edu

Program chairs:

For Part I:

JEFFREY POMERANTZ, Ph.D.

School of Information and Library Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360, USA

pomerantz@unc.edu

and

ANNA MARIA TAMMARO

Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dello Spettacolo

Sezione di Beni Librari

University of Parma

43100 Parma, Italy

annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it
For Part II:

MARIE L. RADFORD, Ph.D.

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

mradford@scils.rutgers.edu

Organizing chairs:

Organizing committee:

MAJA KRTALIC

Department of Information Sciences

Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University

31000 Osijek, Croatia

mcujic@ffos.hr
Local organizing committee:

MARICA SAPRO FICOVIC

Dubrovnik Libraries

20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

msapro@dkd.hr

Venues

The first part of LIDA 2008 will be held in Dubrovnik and for the second part the conference will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran. Pre-conference workshops are planned for 26 May 2008 in Dubrovnik and post-conference workshops for 31 May 2008 on Mljet.

Dubrovnik, Croatia is recognized as one of the World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO. It is a walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval times. A beautiful natural location on the Adriatic Sea, a lavish architecture of squares, palaces, and churches, small, intriguing hill-hugging streets, pedestrian-only traffic within the walls, outings to the enchanting near-by islands - all these and more combine to make Dubrovnik one of the most popular destinations in Europe. For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/ and for Dubrovnik at http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/

Mljet is one of the most enchanting islands in the Adriatic, a sea that abounds with beautiful islands to start with. Hotel Odisej (http://www.hotelodisej.hr) is in a small harbor. Near the hotel is the entrance to Mljet National Park (http://www.np-mljet.hr/) with lush vegetation surrounding three inland lakes, a small island with a monastery in the middle lake, paths for walking, and spots for swimming in the blue and green sea..

We are accepting papers for the next two issues of Education Libraries, a
peer-reviewed journal published by SLA's Education Division. This journal
is indexed in ERIC, and Wilson Library Literature and Information Science.
For information about the journal, instructions for authors, and full-text
copies of selected back issues, please go to
http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html. You do not have
to be a member of SLA or the Education Division to publish in Education
Libraries. We welcome additional book reviewers.

Call for papers, Spring 2008:
The next issue will focus on children's resources.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Call for papers, Fall 2008:
Topics could include archives and digitization; historical collections;
digital libraries; workforce development and information literacy.
Deadline: August 1, 2008

Email queries and manuscripts to co-editor, Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu.

Thank you.
Jacqueline Snider