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Dear colleagues,
The deadline for submitting papers to the subject
workshop here below has been *extended to July 10th*.

Many thanks in advance for your attention, and please
feel free to distribute to interested parties.

Best regards, Anna Maria Tammaro

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*Moving beyond technology: iSchools and education in data curation.
Is Data Curator a new role ?

*Good news. You still have some time to submit a
paper to this workshop. The deadline has been
extended to July 10th.

Workshop to be held in connection with TPDL 2013,
September 26th, 2013, Valletta, Malta

Workshop background
The increase of digital content in the broad areas of Institutional and
domain specific Repositories, Libraries, Archives and Museums and the
increased interest in the sharing and preservation of “research data” have
triggered the emergence of some buzz words that more and more appear in the
literature, such as Convergence (in this context the merging of the
education curricula and the professions for information professionals in
the disciplines of Library Science, Archival, and Museum Studies), Digital
Curation (in this context the actions needed to enrich and maintain digital
material over its entire life-cycle and over time, for current and future
generations of users) and Data Curator (in this context the
person/organization responsible for all the activities connected with the
management/curation of digital data, in particular of research data).

*Workshop objectives
*The main objective of the workshop is to provide additional insight in the
complex interplay between education, research and curation (including long
term preservation) of digital data. In more practical terms, it is expected
to contribute to a more precise definition of the content of the curricula
needed for the education and training of the information professionals,
gain a better understanding of the level at which a convergence of the
three traditional professions could be achieved, contribute to a more
global view of the access and preservation of research outcomes (for
present and future sharing), which today are very often scattered in
libraries, archives, institutional repositories, data bases, etc.

The full-day workshop (on September 26th) will be held in connection with
the TPDL 2013 Conference <http://www.tpdl2013.info/> (Theory and Practice
of Digital Libraries), to be held on September 22-26, 2013 in Valletta,
Malta. Expected contributors and participants in the conference and in this
workshop are educators, information professionals involved in the storage
and preservation of research data, scholars from different disciplines
interested in understanding and achieving the preservation of their
research data. The workshop intends to provide an opportunity for
discussing and sharing experiences both in research and education,
especially in the context of curation of research data. A satellite event
at TPDL(G-WiS: Global Collaboration of
iSchools<http://tpdl2013.upatras.gr/satellite.php>)
can provide additional opportunities for contributions and participation
from scholars and educators in iSchools, traditionally in the forefront for
innovative curricula and adaptation to a changing environment in education,
research and professional activities. A more detailed description of the
workshop can be found at the TPDL web
site<http://tpdl2013.upatras.gr/ws-datacur.php>
.

*Call for contributions
*We invite contributions and concrete examples of research projects,
educational programmes and training initiatives in digital curation and
research data management, illustrating approaches, methodologies and
success stories addressing the need for an increasingly qualified
“information workforce” in the data library, data centre, archive, museum
and cultural heritage sectors. Topics include, but are not limited to:

   - Who is the Digital Curator ?
   - Education of researchers and curators for the present and the future
   - Core skills for the data scientist
   - Training programmes and modules
   - How are data curation skills embedded in curricula ?
   - Data science curricula: building human capacity
   - Lifelong learning in digital curation
   - Existing opportunities for information professionals
   - Sustainability of digital curation curricula
   - Multimodal methods of teaching and learning digital curation
   - Capitalizing on the value of open data
   - Data publication and its role in scholarly communication
   - Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
   - Tensions between maintaining openness and ownership
   - Workflows in the data life-cycle
   - Effective management, sharing and reuse of data
   - Mobile data services to enhance teaching, learning and research
   - Implementation of cultural changes: barriers and enablers
   - How curators are deployed in practice?
   - What are the new research and development results in data curation?
   - Curation of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and/or mixed data
   collections
   - Convergence for the next generation of data preservation and curation

*Submission
*Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research or position
papers related to the topics mentioned above or, more generally, to the
objectives of the workshop. All submissions are required to be in PDF, not
exceeding 10 pages formatted according to Springer's LNCS
format<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0>
.
Please submit your contribution using the EasyChair online submission
system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datacur2013
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program
Committee. All papers accepted must be presented by a workshop registered
participant.
Depending on the quality and number of papers submitted, the organizers
will evaluate the possibility of publishing the workshop proceedings.

*Important dates
*Submission Deadline: June 30 *July 10th*, 2013
Acceptance Notification: July 28, 2013
Final version submission: August 25, 2013
Workshop: September 26, 2013

*Organizing and Meta-Program Committee
*Vittore Casarosa (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Donatella Castelli (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Seamus Ross (University of Toronto)
Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma)

*Program Committee
*Kevin Ashley (Digital Curation Centre, UK)
Christoph Becker (University of Toronto)
Toni Carbo (Drexel University, USA)
Paul Conway (University of Michigan)
Kate Fernie (MDR Partners, UK))
Mariella Guercio (University of Roma La Sapienza)
Carolyn Hank (University of Tennessee)
Cal Lee (University of North Carolina)
Jens Ludwig (Göttingen State and University Library)
John McDonald (University of Toronto)
Nancy McGovern (MIT)
Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky)
Andi Rauber (Technical University of Vienna)
Michael Seadle (Humboldt University, Berlin))
Stefan Strathmann (Göttingen State and University Library)
Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne)
Terry Weech (University of Illinois)

-- 
Anna Maria Tammaro, PhD
International Master DILL: http://dill.hioa.no
Dipartimento Ingegneria dell'Informazione. Università di Parma
Via Usberti 181/a- 43100 Parma
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