2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World,
September 22-24, 2010, Ankara, Turkey
Symposium web site: by2010.bilgiyonetimi.net
The Impact of Technological Convergence and Social Networks on Information Management
(First Call for Papers)
SCOPE
The "2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World," organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 22-24 September 2010. It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of technological convergence and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter on current information management practices in libraries, archives and museums and their implications for education for library and information science. Convergence and social networks also influence the scholarly electronic publishing, open access and institutional archives, digitization of cultural heritage and the socialization of information.
The technological convergence is defined as the intertwinement of technologies. A single product such as a cell phone can be used not only to communicate but also to take pictures, listen to music, get access to the Web, and find our way by successfully combining the communication, audio, video, web and GPS technologies. Similarly, our professional, personal and social lives also converge. Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are used not only for social networking and entertainment but also for access to information, for learning and for carrying out professional work. Social networks commonly have Web 2.0 features, offer personalized services and allow users to incorporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users' experience. Users expect information providing organizations to offer similar services and they want libraries to be as accessible, flexible, open to collaboration and sharing as that of social networks. The future of libraries, archives and museums is closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users.
Main topics of the Symposium are as follows:
Technological Convergence and Information Management
Digital information services
Digital collection management
Web 2.0 and reference services
Virtual libraries
M-libraries
Library 2.0
Convergence and records management
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and semantic Web
E-governance and Web 2.0 technologies
Publishing and Web 2.0 technologies
Open access, institutional archives and Web 2.0
Incorporating user-created content in library collections
Social Networks and Web 2.0 Technologies
Blogs, wikis, RSS, Second Life
Use of social networks
Folksonomies
Digital natives, digital immigrants
Protection of private information
Digital rights management
Identity management
Reputation management
Convergence, Social Networks and Education
Use of social networks in education
Convergence and education for information management
Information literacy
Web 2.0 technologies and education for information management
Distance education and convergence
Digitization of Cultural Heritage
Digital re-discovery of culture
Digital museums and exhibitions
Digitization of 2-D and 3-D cultural heritage products
European Digital Library, Europeana
Digital information policies
E-governance and cultural heritage
Permanent archiving of digital cultural heritage
Socialization of Information and Convergence
Right to access to digital information
The concept of public space in social networks
Social networks and law
Digital rights in social networks
Digital censorship
Life-long learning and social networks
Information Organization, Information Architecture and Information Retrieval
Ontology development
Metadata harvesting
Interoperability and standards
Information architecture and web design
Designing usable web sites
Mobile information retrieval
GIS and information retrieval
Mashups
Data mining
Interdisciplinary studies
Cognitive sciences and information management
Webometrics and social networks
Bibliometrics and informetrics
User studies
The themes are not limited with the above topics. In addition to papers, posters, workshops and panels on the impact of convergence and social networks on information management, papers on information and records management in general are also welcome. Please use the template available in the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and proposals, and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf). Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book and the Symposium web site. Selected papers will be published in refereed journals.
Important Dates
First Call: July 2009
Second Call: October 2009
Third Call: December 2009
Last date to send papers and posters: 18 January 2010
Authors notification: 1 March 2010
Final papers submission and registration: 26 April 2010
Symposium: 22-24 September 2010
All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited
speakers at sempozyum at bilgiyonetimi.net <http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet> .
Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium.
Yasar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee
Serap Kurbanoglu, Chair of the Programme Committee
Hacettepe University
Department of Information Management
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Tel: 0312 297 82 00
Faks: 0312 299 20 14
E-posta: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr <http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet> , serap at hacettepe.edu.tr <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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