[Air-l] New CFP for Document Research Conference

[Niels Windfeld Lund]

NEW EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS TO DOCAM '04

submission deadline August 1, 2004

The Document Academy
presents:

DOCAM '04

on:

Document
as
Concept - Tool - Perspective

The Second International Conference on Document Research and 
Development in Sciences, Arts and Business

October 22-24, 2004
University of California, Berkeley


DOCAM '04 is the second annual meeting of The Document Academy, an 
international network chaired and cosponsored by The Program of 
Documentation Studies, University of Tromsoe, Norway and The School 
of  Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley.


The aim of  The Document Academy is to create a global space for 
experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense 
drawing on traditions and experiences around the world.
That means that the Academy is open for scholars, artists, 
businessmen, students and many other kinds of people attempting to do 
the very best at the same time as one is still making "work in 
progress".

The DOCAM-meetings are intended to be events where people interested 
in a document approach can meet, present, and discuss research, 
ideas, experiments etc. in a relatively open-ended athmosphere. This 
means that the presentations will be kept short and time for 
discussion will be given priority.


As key-note speaker this year we have the pleasure of presenting our 
French partner:


Jean-Michel Salaün, ENSSIB - RTP-DOC

Prof. Salaün is professor at L' Ecole nationale des sciences de 
l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB - http://www.enssib.fr). 
In 2000-2003 he was the head of the «Institut des sciences du 
document numérique» (ISDN) (2000-2003), a network of 17 labs in 
Rhône-Alpes district (http://isdn.enssib.fr), and he is now the chief 
manager of the «Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire 33», "Documents 
et contenu : création, indexation, navigation" (2002 -  ), a national 
network in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, 
CNRS (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr).


Call for papers to DOCAM '04
The main goal for DOCAM '04 is to develop a space and offer time for 
interdisciplinary and international research cooperation on Document 
Research and Development.
The multidisciplinary approach in the project enables us to study the 
problem of documents from different perspectives, both theoretical 
and experimental. The international environment enables presentation 
and exchange of different scientific traditions as well as different 
social and cultural experiences with documents.
Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners around the world 
working with document research and development are invited to submit 
500 words proposals for papers, posters or demonstrations for 
seminars and workshops at DOCAM '04 by May 1st 2004.

Background for the theme "Document as concept - tool - perspective"

The main agenda DOCAM '04 is to consider if and how a document 
approach can be useful as an analytical concept, as a practical tool 
in society and a relevant perspective on processes in society today.

The concept of document is used as an analytical category almost only 
in library and information science, textual criticism and computer 
science. Compared to discussions on concepts like sign, text, medium 
and genre, relatively little theoretical work has been done on the 
concept of document. One of the reasons may be the dominant 
understanding of a document as a very material object and thus of 
little interest for humanists interested in the meaning of human 
expressions. This situation might change due to the development of 
digital media environments. One needs still to delimit meaningful 
totalities in the digital space and since they are all digital 
products, one can draw on the tradition in computer science and 
conceive them as documents and use the concept of document as an 
analytical category like concepts as text, media and genre. Since the 
new media do have a significant impact on the meaning of document, 
you have to develop new methods in order to analyze both old and new 
kinds of documents and focus on the complex relationship between the 
material, social and mental aspects of documents.


We therefore especially welcome proposals on the following themes:


Documents in different convergent media environments (e.g. analogue - 
digital environments, arts, health care, mass media, business etc.)

Document types (audio, visual, verbal, multimedial, performative)

Concepts (document, comparison of the concept of document with other 
concepts (sign, text, discourse, representation etc.))

Methods (hermeneutics, experiments)

Technology (analogue and digital instruments, experimental instruments)

Proposals should include:

- a short description of the work to be presented,

- name of all contributors,

- address, including email contacts and URL,

- a list of up to 5 keywords.


Abstract should be submitted electronically in Word or RTF format to 
niels.windfeld.lund at hum.uit.no on August 1st 2004 at the latest.

Accepted contributions notified September 1st 2004.

Full version should be delivered in RTF or PDF format on October 15 2004.

Further details concerning program, registration, accomodation etc. 
will be available on and added continously to the website of The 
Document Academy, http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/.

Any questions concerning DOCAM'04 and The Document Academy can be 
addressed to the chair of the Document Academy, Niels Windfeld Lund, 
professor, Chair of program in Documentation Studies
HUM-FAK /University of Tromsoe
Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway
tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239
niels.windfeld.lund at hum.uit.no

-- 
Niels Windfeld Lund, professor,
Koordinator for dokumentasjonsvitenskap / Chair of Documentation
Science Program
Institute of  Culture and Literature
HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe
Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway
tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/students/niels.lund/index.html