<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Message to RDAP discussion list from Dr. Jian Qin, Syracuse University:</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">
Please feel free to distribute the call and excuse the multiple postings.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><br></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">A DC-SAM Workshop: Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">September 29, 2011, Berlin, Germany</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;">
<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">To be held as part of the</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><a href="http://www.tpdl2011.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference</span></a><span> </span>(September 25-29, 2011, Berlin, Germany)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Call for Work-in-Progress Papers</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">The<span> </span><a href="http://dublincore.org/groups/sam/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">DC-SAM (DCMI Science and Metadata Community)</span></a><span> </span>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:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Identification systems and standards for scientific metadata</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Scientific metadata architecture and models in Semantic Web</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Interoperable taxonomies and vocabularies in [biology, astronomy, etc.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Metadata linking mechanisms and technologies and their applications in scientific metadata</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Organizational and technical challenges in linking scientific metadata</span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">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.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">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:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Title of the paper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Author(s) and affiliations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Email addresses of authors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Project website</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Abstract</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Tags or keywords</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- Body of paper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">-- References cited</span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Important dates:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Deadline for submitting papers: June 12, 2011, midnight (your local time)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Final version of accepted papers: August 15, 2011</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Please submit your paper to<span> </span><a href="mailto:dc.sam.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">dc.sam.workshop@gmail.com</span></a>. All inquiries and questions can be sent to the same email address. A copy of this call can be found on the workshop website<span> </span><a href="http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/SAM/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/SAM/</span></a>. Information about the workshop will be updated as it becomes available.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);">Workshop co-organizers:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><a href="http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/jqin/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">Jian Qin</span></a>, Syracuse University, USA</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><a href="http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Ejaneg/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">Jane Greenberg</span></a>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"><a href="http://nxg.me.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(14, 115, 184);">Norman Gray</span></a>, University of Glasgow, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(77, 77, 79);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Jian Qin, Ph.D.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Information Studies</p><p class="MsoNormal">Syracuse University</p><p class="MsoNormal">311 Hinds Hall</p><p class="MsoNormal">Syracuse, NY 13244</p><p class="MsoNormal">Phone: <a href="tel:315-443-5642" value="+13154435642" target="_blank">315-443-5642</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fax: <a href="tel:315-443-5806" value="+13154435806" target="_blank">315-443-5806</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ischool.syr.edu/" target="_blank">http://ischool.syr.edu</a></p>