Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006), Details. Call for short papers. The submission deadline for short papers, posters and demonstrations is 3 February 2006 (Full papers, panels, workshops and tutorial proposals are due 20 January 2006).
"The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries," including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing."
For more information, please see the Call for Papers at http://www.jcdl2006.org/.
IR 7.0 Internet Convergences, 27 - 30 September 2006, Brisbane, Australia. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 7 February 2006.
"Our conference theme invites papers and presentations based on empirical research, theoretical analysis and everything in between that explore the multiple ways the Internet acts in both converging and fragmenting ways – physical, cultural, technological, political, social – on local, regional, and global scales."
For more information, please see the Call for Papers at http://conferences.aoir.org/callforpapers.php?cf=5
34th Museum Computer Network Conference (MCN 2006), Access to Assets: Return on Investment, 8 - 11 November 2006, Pasadena, California, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 16 February 2006.
" At MCN 2006 in Pasadena, we will explore ways we've found to demonstrate useful, successful methods for accessing technology; we'll share our challenges and triumphs as we network together to creatively and effectively improve our bottom lines. We'll discuss the many ways we've found to maximize the compelling value of our technology collateral, keeping in mind that the bottom line is not always financial, sometimes it's intellectual, and sometimes, it's just for the greater good."
For more information, please see http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2006/proposals/
ASIS&T 2006, 3 - 9 November 2006, Austin, Texas, USA. Call for proposals. Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre-conference sessions by 13 February 2006 (for contributed posters/short papers, the deadline is 25 February 2006.
"ASIS&T 2006 challenges us to explore this moment in the history of information science as people seamlessly move between their physical and digital worlds to create information realities for themselves and others. Submissions by researchers and practitioners are solicited on a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following:
-New theoretical perspectives on information use and management
-Ethical and legal implications of digital worlds
-The nature of the information profession in the digital future
-User, organizational and cultural analyses of information realities
-Future information architectures to both build and harness information realities
-Implications for information (seeking) behavior and retrieval
-New forms of human-computer/information interactions
-Distributed collaboration and information sharing
-Enhanced access to multi-format and multimedia information
-Learning and education in the digital future
-Digital storytelling and presentation
-Conflicts in information realities, their recognition and resolution
-Preserving our cultural records in a digital age"
For more information, please see the Call for Papers at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/am06call.html
29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Details. Call for Participation. Poster, Demonstrations, Tutorial, Workshop, and Doctoral Consortium submissions are due 27 February 2006. (Full Research Papers are due 20 January 2006.
"SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval."
For more information, please see http://www.sigir2006.org/
