CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information
Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content
The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information
repository where access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform
for collaboration in which content is generated and shared among users. Also
popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications include blogs, wikis,
social networking, media sharing and social tagging, among many others. As this
new avenue for content-generation becomes increasingly popular, the resulting
information explosion requires new techniques and applications to manage, search
and access such content.
The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
aims to explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various technologies
underlying user-generated content to provide innovative and useful services for
their users. Since such technologies are potentially disruptive, the special
issue will also investigate how support for user-generated content would impact
digital libraries, their administrators, users and other stakeholders.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Use of Web 2.0 technologies in digital libraries
* Mobile
services in digital libraries
* Supporting digital library infrastructure and architecture
* Information retrieval and mining techniques
* Virtual worlds and digital libraries
* User communities
* Usability and user needs
* Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content
* Social, institutional and policy issues
Guest Editor: Dr Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
Review decisions to authors: 26 May 2008
Submission of final version: 21 July 2008
Publication: Before year end 2008
ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION
Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dion Goh, at
ashlgoh ntu.edu.sg.
Submission of papers will be done electronically at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/login/?source=/jodi/author/submit
In the keywords field of the submission system, please
indicate that the paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital
Libraries and User-Generated Content.
Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions
may be found at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/about/submissions
More information about JoDI may be obtained from: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
Please also visit the following URL for updates on this
special issue: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ashlgoh/jodi2008.html
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