CFP: IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond libraries - subject metadata in the digital
environment and semantic web (Estonia August 2012)
IFLA Satellite Post-Conference
Beyond libraries - subject metadata in the digital
environment and semantic web
17-18 August 2012, Tallinn, Estonia
Organised by the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section
and the National Library of Estonia
Call for papers
Theme:
Beyond libraries - subject metadata in the digital
environment and semantic web
The conference will explore the role of different kinds
of subject metadata in the digital environment and the semantic web, in
libraries and beyond libraries. The digital environment creates new
opportunities and new challenges for subject access. How could we take
advantage of the new opportunities and how can we handle the challenges?
Possible topics include
* Use of library
subject metadata by other communities
* Cooperation of
libraries with other partners (museums, archives, publishers etc.) in creation
and reuse of subject metadata and knowledge organisation systems (KOS)
* Traditional
and new methods of providing subject access: competition or co-existence?
* Users, their
needs and subject access behaviour in the digital environment
* Users as
creators of subject metadata
Location
National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Preliminary programme
17 August Afternoon session
18 August Full day session
Submissions
The extended deadline for submitting papers is 15 March
2012 Papers should be in English and no more than 3000 words in length, and
submitted ready to publish. The submission should also include:
* Abstract of
approximately 150 words, summarising the paper
* Speaker's
name, professional affiliation, postal address, email address and brief
biographical note.
Authors should be prepared to give presentations at the
Satellite meeting. The length of the presentations should be approximately 20
minutes. The conference will be conducted in English and all presentations will
be required to be in English.
Papers and presentations should be unpublished, original
works. IFLA has first publication rights to papers selected.
Papers will be reviewed by the Programme committee of the
Classification and Indexing Section Standing Committee. Authors will be
notified on the acceptance of their papers before 15 April 2012. The papers
should be sent to Magdalena Svanberg, National Library of Sweden, magdalena.svanberg@kb.se.
Please note
All expenses, including registration for the conference,
travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters.
No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be
issued to authors.
Important dates
15March - Deadline for submitting papers March -
Registration opens
15 April - Notifications of acceptance
15 May - Early registration discount ends
John DeSantis
Dartmouth College
on behalf of the Programme committee
