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Ph.D. students are still encouraged to submit a paper for the Joint iPRES-2013/DC-2013 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM. The deadline has been *extended by one week to 23 June 2013.* On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Angela Dappert <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects. > > International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications > > > > Joint iPRES-2013/DC-2013 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM > > ============================================== > > > > Call for Contributions http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/call-dc.html > > > > The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students who are in the > early phases of their research work. Ideally, students should be in the > stage of defending their thesis proposal, and yet still away from finishing > the research, so they can benefit from participating in the consortium. > > > > The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with feedback and > general advice in a constructive atmosphere. A panel of prominent > professors and experienced practitioners in the field of will conduct the > workshop. > > > > The workshop will take place on September 2, 2013. During the workshop, > each student will have time to present his/her actual thesis proposal, what > has been achieved so far and the future plans. After that, time will be > reserved for discussion and feedback from the experts and other > participants. > > > > There is no registration fee for students who are accepted for the > Doctoral Consortium. > > > > Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should > submit a 6 to 8 page paper (see "Information for Authors" on the format of > the submission), and send it by email to: [log in to unmask] > > > > The submission deadline is 16 June 2013 > > > > The submission should: > > * Be solely authored by the student, > > * Clearly formulate the research question, > > * Identify the significant problems in the field of research (which must > be one of the topics covered by the general call of the iPRES-2013 or > DC-2013 conferences), > > * Summarize the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the > relevant state of the art for solutions, > > * Clearly present any preliminary research plans and ideas, and the > results achieved so far, > > * Sketch the research methodology that is to be applied, > > * Describe the expected contributions of the applicant to the research > area, and > > * Describe how the research is innovative, novel or extends existing > approaches to a problem > > * Have appended a statement by your advisor / supervisor saying how you > would benefit by attending the Consortium. > > > > Accepted submissions will be: > > * Distributed to Doctoral Consortium participants > > * Invited to be presented as a poster during the joint posters session > (but will not be published in any of the proceedings). > > * Invited to be published as a revised version in a special issue of > the TCDL Bulletin, the publication of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on > Digital Libraries. > > >