CFP: Special issue of Library Review (Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, applications and research)

CFP: Special issue of Library Review (Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, applications and research)

Details: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/LibraryReview/

Important dates are as follows:
Friday 5th October 2007: deadline for submission of papers
Monday 5th November 2007: acceptance notification
Friday 7th December 2007: submission of 'camera ready' version (complete with reviewers' revisions/changes)
Spring 2008: publication of special issue

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Submissions are sought for a special issue of Library Review on the topic of 'Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, applications and research'.

For many digital libraries or cultural institutions, the Semantic Web offers an opportunity to better expose valuable digital resources pertaining to research, culture or history, using common standards and technologies in a collaborative and 'joined up' way. Semantic Web technologies are capable of enhancing digital libraries or repositories by facilitating improved user interfaces and human-computer interaction, improved navigation and retrieval within heterogeneous document environments, user profiling, personalisation and contextualisation, etc. Such technologies also have the potential to solve or aid the management of problems relevant to the LIS community, such as semantic interoperability, advanced metadata and information integration, the management of large corpora of heterogeneous digital resources, and so forth.

This special themed issue of Library Review consolidates similarly themed conferences (e.g. the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007)) and aims to demonstrate the relevance and application of Semantic Web technologies to digital libraries, repositories, and the LIS community generally.

Submissions are welcome from all interested parties and communities. Submissions may comprise research papers, evaluation, case studies, and descriptions of innovative projects, theoretical expositions, or reviews. Topics for submission could include, but are by no means limited to:

- Digital library and Semantic Web project case studies, best practice examples, etc.
- Innovative uses of RDF applications such as Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), Web Ontology Language (OWL), Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF), etc. within digital libraries or similar environments
- Use of Semantic Web techniques in the deployment of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS), including terminology services
- Large scale metadata integration
- Knowledge organization and ontologies (including the application of knowledge organization systems or ontologies in interfaces to digital libraries)
- Reviews of Semantic Web techniques and their actual (and potential) application within digital libraries
- Ontological navigation and inferencing/reasoning techniques
- Methodologies for ontology management, evaluation, mapping, merging, integration, etc.
- Semantically rich interfaces to digital libraries
- Management, use and navigation of bibliographic data using Semantic Web technologies
- Semantic Web approaches to information retrieval within digital libraries
- Storage, manipulation, querying of RDF data
- Technology and Semantic Web modelling tools
- Knowledge organization systems and user interfaces at the crossroads

Owing to the aim of this special issue, submissions on the above noted topics are encouraged to:

* Emphasise the practical implications of Semantic Web research or developments for digital libraries and repositories;
* Where possible, endeavour to note the relevance of research findings for future digital library management or service provision;
* Comment on areas of useful overlap between the digital library and Semantic Web developments and how the aims of each community can be furthered by increased collaboration.

Important dates are as follows:

Friday 5th October 2007: deadline for submission of papers
Monday 5th November 2007: acceptance notification
Friday 7th December 2007: submission of 'camera ready' version (complete with reviewers' revisions/changes)
Spring 2008: publication of special issue

For further submission details see: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/LibraryReview/

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George Macgregor,
Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR),
Department of Computer & Information Sciences,
University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower,
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, UK, G1 1XH
tel: +44 (0)141 548 4752
fax: +44 (0)141 548 4523
web: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

CFP: Library Review journal Special issue - "Voices of the new library professionals"

CFP: Library Review journal Special issue - "Voices of the new library professionals"

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/lr/lr.jsp

Special issue call - "Voices of the new library professionals":
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/lr/cfp_voices.jsp

Deadline 30 April 2007

Special issue call for papers

2007 sees Library Review celebrate its 80th anniversary. Part of the celebrations will encompass publications from the archives of the journal discussing different aspects of librarianship through the years the journal has been published. In the final issue of the anniversary year it is our intention to publish a selection of papers from students of library and information science from around the world. The topics of the articles can be on any aspect of modern librarianship, but what we are looking for is writing that discusses librarianship and your views on its future as the professionals who will be the backbone of the profession for the coming decades. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

Libraries, information and society
Developing information services
Hybrid and digital libraries
Information literacy and e-learning
Metadata and distributed searching
Library collaboration and resource sharing
Library history
Training and professional development
Academic and public libraries
Special libraries and collections
Information strategy and knowledge management
National and international policy.

The deadline for submission of papers is Monday the 30th April 2007, and successful submissions will be informed by Friday the 15th June 2007 for publication in late 2007. Submissions should be between 2500-4000 words, and can be emailed directly to the editor: