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Call for Contributions to Focus Issue on Digital
Scholarsh
Steve Griffin, who many of you will remember from his time at the
National Science Foundation, and now at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Information, has asked me to share the call for
contributions to a special issue of the International Journal of
Digital Libraries that he is co-editing. He's assembled a stellar
editorial board for this effort (among which you'll find four CNI
keynote speakers!); his co-editor for the special issue is Stefan
Gradmann of the University of Leuven. Many of the themes that he is
hoping to engage here are very closely tied to the ongoing CNI
agenda.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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International Journal of Digital Libraries
Special Issue on Digital Scholarship
Digital scholarship, or "cyberscholarship" - that based
on data and computation - is radically reshaping knowledge discovery,
creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical
areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore
galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles
of living things and study the changing behaviors and mores of
societies and individuals in a an increasing populated and
fragile physical world steeped in networked digital
technologies. Similarly, humanists are using new types of
information objects, methodologies and tools to transform and
expand their scholarly endeavors. Examples include the
creation and use of digital representations of material culture by
historians, introducing spatial and temporal indexed data into
the study of literature and information visualizations to
communicate the outcomes of traditional humanistic inquiry.
The enabling environment for digital scholarship is a rapidly
expanding global digital ecology composed of large and diverse
datasets; richly annotated, globally linked and accessible to all
using open source tools. Accompanying technology
changes have been trends within scholarly communities toward rich
informal dialogues, cross-disciplinary collaborations and equable
sharing of research findings.
Data-centered approaches to inquiry have now become a staple of
research and scholarship in almost every disciplinary
domain. Accompanying this have been cultural shifts in the
scholarly community that challenge long-standing assumptions that
underpin the structure of academic institutions and beg new models of
scholarly communication. Network-centric models of
scientific communication that capture a comprehensive record of
scholarly workflows are now seen by many as a necessary condition for
accurate and complete reporting of scholarly work.
Much of the seminal work in developing the information
environments and resources that support digital scholarship can be
linked directly to digital libraries research - past and
present. Pioneering digital libraries research
illuminated essential core information architectures and environments
and inspired a generation of researchers to look beyond the confines
of their own discipline and often partner with others to pursue
interdisciplinary projects - many of which captured national
attention and captivated the general public with their
brilliance.
This special issue will solicit high quality papers that
demonstrate exceptional achievements in digital scholarship, including
but not limited to:
* scholarly work that demonstrates innovation in
the creation and use of complex information objects and tools to
advance domain scholarship
* domain research that exemplifies creative and
innovative data-intensive research in the formal, natural, social
sciences and the humanities and arts
* new applications, tools and services that expand
the scope and means for interdisciplinary digital scholarship
* data repositories and infrastructure projects of
exceptional quality and value that illustrate how community-based
efforts can serve global constituencies
* models for leveraging and expanding web-based
infrastructure for scholars
* document models that support multiple information
types, update, annotation, executable objects, linkages, rapid
integration and staged release of document components
* scholarly communication environments that capture
a comprehensive record of scholarly workflows and artifacts and
provide new means of presentation, dissemination and reuse of digital
assets
Important Dates
November 30, 2013
Paper Submission deadline
March 1, 2014
First notification
May 1, 2014
Revision submission
July 1, 2014
Second notification
September 1, 2014
Final version submission
Guest Editors
Stephen M. Griffin, University of Pittsburgh (contact
person)
Stefan Gradmann, University of Leuven
Editorial Board:
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Lyon, University of Bath, UKOLN
William Arms, Cornell
Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles
(tentative yes)
Tom Moritz, Consultant
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley
Paper Submission
Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication
must be original and must not be under consideration for publication
in any other journal or conference. Previously published or
accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material
to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted
by referring to http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607 Please
select "Special Issue" under Manuscript Category of your
submission. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal
publication guidelines which can also be found on its website provided
above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard
review process.
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