14th International Symposium of Information Science – ISI 2015

Il 14° simposio dell’ISI si terrà a Zadar, in Croazia, dal 19 al 21 maggio 2015. Il tema di questa edizione è “Re:inventing Information Science in the Networked Society”.  I proceedings della conferenza saranno pubblicati dalla Verlag Werner Hülsbusch (vhw Verlag). La deadline per inviare papers e panels è il 10 gennaio 2015.  La lingua per paper e presentazioni è l’inglese. Ecco i temi:

1. Information Science – Interdisciplinary Aspects and Cross-disciplinary Fertilization

• Information Science: so broad – so small!
• Information science vs. Web science
• Meeting humanities through the digital medium
• Digital humanities research across disciplines and cultures
• LIS schools and digital humanities syllabi – convergence issues in information science education

2. Information Science in Today’s Networked Society

• Changing face of information science professions
• Digital Collections and Connections
• Changing Users

3. Information Science and “Big Society”

• Information science vs. data science
• Semantic data meets big data
• Information retrieval, information discovery, visualizing and mapping tools and approaches
• Privacy concerns – the “vitreous user”
• Danger of “information monopolies” – the winner takes it all?
• New required competencies of information specialists

4. Changes in Scholarly Communication

• Everything open: access, data, reviewing
• New forms of scholarly publishing: blogs, tweets, wikis, crowdsourcing
• Use of social media in scholarly communication: social reference management systems, social networking cites, etc.
• Altmetrics (readership/bookmarks, mentions, likes, etc.) as alternatives to citations in research evaluation?

5. Decolonizing description: critical approaches and innovations
– Description in liminal spaces: subverting systems to liberate description
– Moving across diverse standards
– Archives, libraries, museums integration through metadata
– Decolonising international/national standards
– Social tagging and participative metadata practices: alternative and/or welcomed practices and their impact on catalogue/finding aids (authority, trust, authenticity)

Ecco il Call for Papers