Third and Final Call for Papers

3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World,
September 19-21, 2012, Ankara, Turkey

 E-Science and Information Management
(Third and Final Call for Papers)

 SCOPE

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.

A distinguished scientist and currently the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Dr. Tony Hey is the keynote speaker of IMCW2012.  “E-Science” is defined as collaborative, networked and data-driven science.  In his keynote speech, Dr. Hey will highlight the major issues that e-science scholars and researchers are faced with when working with large and distributed data sets, processing and visualizing them using advanced technologies and software packages.  He will share his views on some of the challenges that both scholars and information professionals have to tackle (e.g., gathering, curating, organizing, storing, and managing large amount of data, and providing perpetual access to them over the Internet).

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’sConference Proceedings Citation Index.

Because IMCW2012 coincides with the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, to commemorate this event we organized an international ex libris competition with the theme “information management” (http://exlibris.hacettepe.edu.tr/index.php?lang=en&page=HomePage).  The winning art works of ex libris will be exhibited during the symposium. (Please note: Different deadlines apply for the ex libris competition.)

As organizers, we thought 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