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.
Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its CCIS series (
http://www.springer.com/series/7899) and the Symposium
web site. Papers that appear in Springer’s CCIS series are indexed in Thomson Reuter’s
Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
This is an opportune time for IMCW2012 to review the challenges for research libraries and information professionals in the collaborative, networked, and data intensive e-science environment. Such challenges range from information literacy to intellectual
property rights, from developing open access data repositories for e-science to using digital tools for data processing and visualization, and from collection development and management to reference services and e-science librarianship.
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, 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.
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