Greetings, all.
Please forward as appropriate. Further details at
http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/SAM/
A DC-SAM Workshop: Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata
September 29, 2011, Berlin, Germany
To be held as part of the
Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference (September 25-29,
2011, Berlin, Germany)
Call for Work-in-Progress Papers
Describing scientific research data can be challenging due to their complexity
and diversity. Standards for describing scientific datasets include not only
entities responsible for data collection, processing, and distribution, but
also information for data users to assess the relevancy to their data needs,
quality of datasets, as well as technicalities regarding data file
manipulation. Although scientific metadata schemes address a range of needs for
data identification, quality assessment, verifiability, and dissemination, they
do not fully address the challenges related to metadata generation and islands
of information exist within and across scientific metadata records. One step
towards addressing these challenges and problems is to have information
scientists and domain scientists collaborate to evolve existing solutions in
web-friendly ways. This one-day workshop will feature invited speakers from
science and information science in the morning sessions and selected
work-in-progress reports and interactive discussion in the afternoon.
The DC-SAM (DCMI Science and Metadata Community) workshop will include three
parts: a morning session consists of invited speakers from both science and
information science, a working lunch with focus group discussion, and an
afternoon session for work-in-progress reports. This call is soliciting
submissions of work-in-progress reports for the afternoon session. We are
especially interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Identification systems and standards for scientific metadata
• Scientific metadata architecture and models in Semantic Web
• Interoperable taxonomies and vocabularies in [biology, astronomy,
etc.]
• Metadata linking mechanisms and technologies and their applications
in scientific metadata
• Organizational and technical challenges in linking scientific metadata
The outcomes of this workshop are expected to be a collection of research
papers/reports and a research agenda in this increasingly important area, which
will be made available on DC-SAM community website.
Researchers are invited to submit reports for their projects relevant to the
theme of this workshop, which are either work in progress or completed. The
work-in-progress papers should be no more than six (6) pages, single spaced,
(approximately 3,000 words including abstract and references). The submission
should include the following components:
• Title of the paper
• Author(s) and affiliations
• Email addresses of authors
• Project website
• Abstract
• Tags or keywords
• Body of paper
• References cited
The papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and selected
based on originality, coherence, clarity, and appropriateness for the workshop.
Each selected paper will be given a 15-minute slot for oral presentation.
Important dates:
• Deadline for submitting papers: June 12, 2011, midnight (your local
time)
• Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
• Final version of accepted papers: August 15, 2011
Please submit your paper to [email protected]. All inquiries and
questions can be sent to the same email address. A copy of this call can be
found on the workshop website http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/SAM/. Information
about the workshop will be updated as it becomes available.
Workshop co-organizers:
Jian Qin, Syracuse University, USA
Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Norman Gray, University of Glasgow, UK
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
