ELPUB2008 First Call for Papers: Open Scholarship, Toronto Canada June 25-27, 2008

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

[Forwarding at the request of Leslie Chan, who is not a 
subscriber.  --Peter Suber.]


First Call for Papers ELPUB2008

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the 
Age of Web 2.0

12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada
http://www.elpub.net

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, 
are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, 
funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding 
in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to 
strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key 
issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from 
the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of 
cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new 
dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide 
variety of papers from members of these communities whose 
research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly 
communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

*    New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
*    New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
*    Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
*    Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
*    Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and
      content
*    Content search, analysis and retrieval
*    Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to
      facilitate awareness and discovery
*    Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS,
      microformats)
*    Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
*    Semantic web issues
*    Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
*    User generated content and its relation to publisher's content
*    Usage and citation impact
*    Security, privacy and copyright issues
*    Digital preservation, content authentication
*    Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

Author Guidelines
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
     - Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words)
     - Tutorial (abstract minimum of  500 and maximum of 1500 words)
     - Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)
     - Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
     - Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference
website     <http://www.elpub.net>

Key Dates:
January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories):

February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted
papers and workshop proposals.

April 11th, 2008: Final papers must be received. See website for 
detailed author instructions.

Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought 
by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these 
contributions will be published in the conference proceedings. 
Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals 
will soon be posted on the website.

All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind) and 
accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted 
full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 
Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference. 
Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at: 
http://elpub.scix.net

ABOUT ELPUB

The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the previous 
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the 
United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), 
Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil 
(2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007), which 
is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, 
developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users 
and all those interested in issues regarding electronic 
publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the 
human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, 
commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting 
theme encompasses.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope 
of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange 
and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications 
and electronic publishing; combination of general and technical 
issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and 
publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most 
recent work.

ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, 
tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and demonstrations. 
A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be 
available to participants (at additional costs). Please see the 
conference web site for details.

Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the most 
vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large multicultural 
population, is the largest city in Canada and the 5th-largest 
city in North America. There are many world class galleries and 
museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from 
around the world at reasonable prices.

Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), 
University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching 
institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual 
incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the 
university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific 
study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human 
activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary 
nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media 
technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial 
research programs and broad participation in three major areas: 
collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of 
openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination, 
and public policy and citizen engagement.

General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough
      chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic 
Consortium for ICT, Italy:  mornati@cilea.it