[Rdap] Call for Work-in-Progress Papers -- DC-SAM workshop on Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata

[Melissa Weaver]

*Message to RDAP discussion list from Dr. Jian Qin, Syracuse University:*

Please feel free to distribute the call and excuse the multiple postings.

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*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<http://www.tpdl2011.org/>
 (September 25-29, 2011, Berlin, Germany)

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*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)<http://dublincore.org/groups/sam/>
 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 dc.sam.workshop at gmail.com. 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 <http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/jqin/>, Syracuse University, USA

Jane Greenberg <http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Ejaneg/>, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Norman Gray <http://nxg.me.uk/>, University of Glasgow, UK





Jian Qin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Information Studies

Syracuse University

311 Hinds Hall

Syracuse, NY 13244

Phone: 315-443-5642

Fax: 315-443-5806

http://ischool.syr.edu
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