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12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada
Second Call for Papers ELPUB2008
Submission deadline: January 20, 2008
<
http://www.elpub.net/>
http://www.elpub.net
Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web
2.0
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: <
http://www.elpub.net/>
http://www.elpub.net
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/>
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_at_utsc.utoronto.ca
Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT,
Italy, mornati_at_cilea.it
Inquiries: <mailto:elpub2008_at_elpub.net>elpub2008_at_elpub.net
Web site: <
http://www.elpub.net/>
http://www.elpub.net
Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Project Leader AEPIC, www.aepic.it
+39 02 2699 5322, +39 348 7090 226,
mailto:mornati_at_cilea.it, skype: susanna.mornati
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