IMCW 2012 - 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World

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Category IMCW 2012

Deadline: January 23, 2012 | Date: September 19, 2012-September 21, 2012

Venue/Country: Ankara, Turkey

Updated: 2011-07-31 14:15:19 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

September 19-21, 2012, Ankara, Turkey

E-Science and Information Management

(First Call for Papers)

SCOPE

The “3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World” (or IMCW2012), organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 19-21 September 2012.

“E-Science and Information Management” being the main theme, IMCW2012 aims to bring together both researchers and information professionals to discuss the implications of e-science for information management. “E-Science” is defined as collaborative, networked and data-driven science. Researchers have to get access to large, distributed data sets on, say, global warming or gene sequences, and use a set of tools and technologies for data processing and information visualization. Vast amounts of data need to be collected, curated, stored, managed, and preserved to ensure perpetual access to them over the Internet.

E-Science has implications for both researchers and information professionals such as librarians and data archivists. Both groups need information management and computational skills to deal with massive data sets along with some understanding of intellectual property rights, open access and data literacy issues, among others. Few schools in the US and elsewhere are already offering graduate degrees in “E-Science Librarianship” and one is likely to come across ads of job descriptions for “cloud librarians”.

As organizers, we thought this is an opportune time for IMCW2012 to review the challenges for research libraries and information professionals in the the collaborative, networked, and data intensive e-science environment. Such challenges range from developing data repositories for e-science to using digital tools for data processing and visualization, and from collection development and management to reference services and information literacy. Because IMCW2012 coincides with the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, to commemorate this event we organized an international ex libris competition with the theme “information management”. The winning art works of ex libris will be exhibited during the symposium.

Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following:

Data Management Challenges in E-Science

Data driven e-science

Data intensive research

Data science

Grids for e-science

E-Science in the cloud

Infrastructures and networks for e-science

Systems, tools and services for e-science

Data security and access control

Virtual research environments and data management

Community of practices

Data Life-cycle in E-Science

Data discovery and identification

Data curation and collection

Data presentation

Data management

Data extraction and mining

Data processing

Data retrieval

Data simulation and visualization

Data preservation

Information Discovery, Organization, and Retrieval in E-Science

Information discovery

Information representation

Information search, indexing and retrieval

Mobile information retrieval in e-science

Metadata harvesting

Metadata extraction

Metadata management

Metadata interoperability and standards

Ontology development

Ontology mapping

Mining large data sets

Information Management and E-Science

Digital data curation

Distributed collection development and management

Information management in the cloud

Developing digital information services for e-science

Mobile information services for e-science

Long term preservation of and access to data

Semantic information management

Information Architecture for E-Science

Information architecture and web design for e-science

Designing usable e-science web sites

Information usability

Interaction design for e-science web sites

Information visualization tools

Education for Information Management and E-Science

E-Science librarianship

Data curation education

Cloud librarians

Information stewardship

Biomedical informatics

Environmental informatics

Bioinformatics

Digital humanities, arts and e-social sciences

Support services for researchers, students and general public

Life-long learning and e-science

Information literacy for e-science

Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and Digital Repositories in E-Science

Scholarly publishing process in e-science

E-publishing in e-science

Open science

Open access to publicly funded scientific information

Data warehouses

Digital libraries

Federated databases

European Infrastructure for e-Science Digital Repositories (e-SciDR)

Digital Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage

Digitization of scientific and cultural heritage

Digital science museums and digital exhibitions

Digitization of 2-D and 3-D scientific and cultural heritage objects

Digital re-discovery of culture

The European Digital Library, Europeana

Permanent archiving of digital scientific and cultural heritage

Social and Cultural Issues and E-Science

Digital information policies

E-governance and e-science

Intellectual property rights

Digital rights management

Legal and cultural issues

Value of information (VOI)

Information quality standards

In addition to papers, short papers (pecha-kucha), posters, workshops and panels on e-science and information management, general papers on information management are also welcome. Student papers and posters will also be considered. Please use the template available in the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and proposals, and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf). Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its CCIS series (pending) and the Symposium web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

First Call: July 2011

Second Call: October 2011

Third Call: December 2011

Last date to send papers and posters: 23 January 2012

Authors notification: 19 March 2012

Final papers submission and registration: 7 May 2012

Symposium: 19-21 September 2012

All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at sempozyumbilgiyonetimi.net.

Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium.

Yaşar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee

Serap Kurbanoğlu, Chair of the Programme Committee

Hacettepe University

Department of Information Management

06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Tel: 0312 297 82 00

Fax: 0312 299 20 14

e-mail: tontahacettepe.edu.tr, seraphacettepe.edu.tr