Hello All,
We are seeking papers on innovative Digital Scholarship for a Focus Issue of
the International Journal of Digital Libraries. The CFP is broad - covering
research and scholarship in the sciences, humanities and arts. Please note
that papers exploring new document models and open scholarly communication
environments are of special interest.
Guest Editors:
Stephen Griffin
University of Pittsburgh
sgrif...@pitt.edu (contact)
Stefan Gradmann
University of Leuven
International Journal of Digital Libraries
Special Issue on Digital Scholarship
Digital scholarship, or "cyberscholarship" - that based on data and computation
- is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation
and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of
data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic
profiles of living things and study the changing behaviors and mores of
societies and individuals in a an increasing populated and fragile physical
world steeped in networked digital technologies. Similarly, humanists are
using new types of information objects, methodologies and tools to transform
and expand their scholarly endeavors. Examples include the creation and use of
digital representations of material culture by historians, introducing spatial
and temporal indexed data into the study of literature and information
visualizations to communicate the outcomes of traditional humanistic inquiry.
The enabling environment for digital scholarship is a rapidly expanding global
digital ecology composed of large and diverse datasets, richly annotated,
globally linked and accessible to all using open source tools. Accompanying
technology changes have been trends within scholarly communities toward rich
informal dialogues, cross-disciplinary collaborations and equable sharing of
research findings.
Data-centered approaches to inquiry have now become a staple of research and
scholarship in almost every disciplinary domain. Accompanying this have been
cultural shifts in the scholarly community that challenge long-standing
assumptions that underpin the structure of academic institutions and beg new
models of scholarly communication. Network-centric models of scientific
communication that capture a comprehensive record of scholarly workflows are
now seen by many as a necessary condition for accurate and complete reporting
of scholarly work.
Much of the seminal work in developing the information environments and
resources that support digital scholarship can be linked directly to digital
libraries research – past and present. Pioneering digital libraries research
illuminated essential core information architectures and environments and
inspired a generation of researchers to look beyond the confines of their own
discipline and often partner with others to pursue interdisciplinary projects –
many of which captured national attention and captivated the general public
with their brilliance.
This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate
exceptional achievements in digital scholarship, including but not limited to:
• scholarly work that demonstrates innovation in the creation and
use of complex information objects and tools to advance domain scholarship
• domain research that exemplifies creative and innovative
data-intensive research in the formal, natural, social sciences and the
humanities and arts
• new applications, tools and services that expand the scope and
means for interdisciplinary digital scholarship
• data repositories and infrastructure projects of exceptional
quality and value that illustrate how community-based efforts can serve global
constituencies
• models for leveraging and expanding web-based infrastructure
for scholars
• document models that support multiple information types,
update, annotation, executable objects, linkages, rapid integration and staged
release of document components
• scholarly communication models that capture a comprehensive
record of research and provide new means of presentation, dissemination and
reuse
Important Dates
November 30, 2013 Paper Submission deadline
March 1, 2014 First notification
May 1, 2014 Revision submission
July 1, 2014 Second notification
September 1, 2014 Final version submission
Guest Editors
Stephen M. Griffin, University of Pittsburgh (contact person)
Stefan Gradmann, University of Leuven
Editorial Board:
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Lyon, University of Bath, UKOLN
William Arms, Cornell
Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles (tentative yes)
Tom Moritz, Consultant
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley
Paper Submission
Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be
original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other
journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must
contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All
papers are to be submitted by referring to
http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607 Please select “Special Issue”
under Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared
according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on its
website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard
review process.
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