Call for Papers: Digital Libraries for International Development
(JCDL/ICADL 2010)
http://miksa.ils.unc.edu/dldev/Digital
Libraries for International Development aims to bring together
researchers
who have thought deeply about the use of Information and
Communication
Technologies for Development (ICTD) with those who have
thought deeply about
the design and evaluation of digital libraries in
an effort to spark new
work at this important intersection. A key goal
for our planned workshop is
to explore innovative designs and
applications of digital libraries to
improve education, health, and
financial conditions of people in developing
regions.
We invite two types of submissions: position papers, and
research
papers. Position papers are essentially extended business cards -
they
ensure that other participants have your name, contact information, and
a description of what you are interested in. You can use bulleted lists,
expository text, images, or whatever you like to get the idea across.
But position papers are strictly limited to one page - they are meant to
be skimmed, not to be read. They are not mini research papers. Position
papers are optional - you can attend the workshop even if you don't
submit one. But submitting one is a good way to get the right
conversations started, so we encourage it. We will send you feedback
within a week of your position paper submission to let you know if we
think your interests are a good fit for the workshop (if you misread the
title and thought we were doing software development rather than
international development, this might help you avoid an unnecessary trip
to Brisbane!), but of course you are welcome to attend regardless of our
reaction to your position paper.
Research papers are one of the four
hubs around which the workshop will
be built (the other three are invited
talks, plenary panel discussions,
and moderated discussions in small
groups). Among these four, research
papers serve to add depth to the
discussion. But this will not be a day
full of paper presentations - the
papers serve to stimulate and focus
our discussion, so they should address
some topic at the intersection of
digital libraries and international
development. They will be peer
reviewed by the program committee, but we do
not have a particular type
of paper in mind - we would be glad to consider
papers that identify
specific issues and discuss them in detail, papers that
report on
experiences in the field, papers that report study results, or
whatever
other kinds of papers you think would profitably engage our
discussion.
There is no need to write a position paper if you submit a
research
paper - if your research paper is on topic, we will gladly
distribute it
to participants in the workshop even if it is not selected for
oral
presentation. We'll give you quick feedback on whether we think you're
on topic, and in the case of research papers we have set the deadlines
so that we can give you that feedback before the JCDL early registration
deadline (after which the main conference's registration fee goes up,
but the workshop registration fee does not).
Research papers must be
in the standard ACM conference paper format
(
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and are
limited to 10 pages. Position papers can be in any format, but are
limited to one page and should contain your contact information (think
of position papers as an extended business card). All submissions must
be in PDF. They can be submitted electronically through the workshop's
submission site (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlid10).
[don't confuse this with the main JCDL submission site, which has a
different conf ID]
At least one author of research papers selected
for oral presentation
must attend the workshop to present their work.
Authors of position
papers may participate remotely if they wish (indeed,
submitting a
position paper is a type of remote participation even if you do
no more
than that - we do plan to incorporate some provisions for remote
participation in the event itself if there is interest in that, so
please let us know of your preference for that when submitting research
papers by indicating "remote participant" near the top of your position
paper. A conference proceedings containing the position papers and the
research papers is planned.
Important Dates:
Full Research
Paper Submission Deadline
April 20, 2010 (11:59 PM Samoa
Time)
Research Paper Initial Notification (Scope Fit)
April 25,
2010
JCDL Early Registration Deadline
April 30, 2010
Research
Paper Final Notification
May 10, 2010
Camera-ready Paper Deadline
May 15, 2010
Position Paper Submission Deadline
Rolling.
Submission encouraged as soon as possible; notification within
a week. Final
deadline is June 6 - to allow printing time.
Workshop June 25,
2010
Organisers:
Javed Mostafa,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Tapan
Parikh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
Program
Committee:
Michel Bezy, IBM,
USA
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New
Zealand
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research,
India
Dan Dorner, University of Victoria,
Wellington, New Zealand
David Eichmann, University
of Iowa, USA
Gary Geisler, University of Texas at
Austin, USA
Barbara Hayes, Indiana University,
USA
Faheem Hussain, Asian University for Women,
Bangladesh
Min-Yen Kan, National University of
Singapore, Singapore
Lokman I. Meho, American
University of Beirut, Lebanon
David Nichols,
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Eva Mendez
Rodriguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Shalini Urs, University of Mysore, India
