FINAL CFP: Special Issue of JoDI on Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS


FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information
Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content 


The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information repository 
where access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform 
for collaboration in which content is generated and shared among 
users. Also popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications 
include blogs, wikis, social networking, media sharing and social 
tagging, among many others. As this new avenue for content-generation 
becomes increasingly popular, the resulting information explosion 
requires new techniques and applications to manage, search and access 
such content.

The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) aims 
to explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various 
technologies underlying user-generated content to provide innovative 
and useful services for their users. Since such technologies are 
potentially disruptive, the special issue will also investigate how 
support for user-generated content would impact digital libraries, 
their administrators, users and other stakeholders.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Use of Web 2.0 technologies in digital libraries
* Mobile services in digital libraries
* Supporting digital library infrastructure and architecture
* Information retrieval and mining techniques
* Virtual worlds and digital libraries
* User communities
* Usability and user needs
* Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content
* Social, institutional and policy issues


Guest Editor: Dr Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, 
Singapore.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
Review decisions to authors: 26 May 2008
Submission of final version: 21 July 2008
Publication: Before year end 2008


ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION
Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dion Goh, at 
[email protected] 

Submission of papers will be done electronically at: 
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/login/?source=/jodi/author/submit
In the keywords field of the submission system, please indicate that 
the paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital 
Libraries and User-Generated Content.

Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions may be 
found at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/about/submissions

More information about JoDI may be obtained from: 
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

Please also visit the following URL for updates on this special 
issue: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ashlgoh/jodi2008.html