IT and Libraries: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Ottawa

13 June 2011
Source: Russian Digital Libraries Association

June 13-17, 2011 Ottawa (Canada) is holding a Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations, operational information systems with all manner of digital content, new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

The theme for JCDL 2011 is "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data", in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education.

The conference addresses the following themes:

- Collaborative and participatory information environments

- Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments

- Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information

- Digital library and Web Science curriculum development

- Distributed information systems

- Evaluation of online information environments

- Impact and evaluation of digital libraries and information in education

- Information and knowledge systems

- Information policy and copyright law

- Information visualization

- Retrieval and browsing

- Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication

- Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information

- Social-technical perspectives of digital information

- Studies of human factors in networked information

- Systems, algorithms, and models for data preservation

- Theoretical models of information interaction and organization

- User behavior and modeling

- Visualization of large-scale information environments