[Air-l] DOCAM '05, Oct. 7-9th. 2005, UC-Berkeley, CFP

[Niels Windfeld Lund]

The Document Academy
Invites:

PROPOSALS
FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS AT

DOCAM '05

October 07-09th, 2005
South Hall
School of Information Management and Systems,
University of California,  Berkeley

The third annual meeting of
The Document Academy
on:

Exploring the Nature and Role of Documents


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


DOCAM '05 is the third Annual meeting of the 
Document Academy, a loosely coupled international 
network  of scholars, artists, professionals in 
various fields interested in the exploration of 
the document as a useful approach, concept and 
tool in Sciences, Arts, Business and Society in 
general. The aim of The Document Academy is to 
create a space for experimental and critical 
research on documents in a wide sense drawing on 
traditions and experiences around the world. It 
is organized and cosponsored by The Program of 
Documentation Studies, University of Tromsoe, 
Norway and The School of Information Management 
and Systems, University of California, Berkeley.

A preliminary program is available online on the 
site of The Document Academy at 
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/


Call for proposals of papers, presentations and demonstrations:

Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners 
working with document research and development 
are invited to submit proposals for papers or 
other kinds of presentation for seminars and 
workshops AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and not later than 
by August 31 2005. We apologize for the all too 
late announcement.

We welcome especially proposals for three kinds of papers and presentations :

I. General papers for plenary sessions on:

-       DOCUMENT THEORY (Technical, Social and 
Cultural approaches, multi- and interdisciplinary 
theoretical work, conceptual problems etc.)

-       DOCUMENT HISTORY (Documentary traditions, 
future and emergent kinds of documents)

-       DOCUMENTS IN SOCIETY(The role of 
documents in society, documents in Every Day life)

Each author or group of authors presenting a 
paper will have 30 minutes for presentation and 
15 minutes for discussion. A full paper of no 
more than 7000 words should be delivered to the 
chair no later than November 1st 2005 in a 
pdf-format.

II. Papers (theoretical and empirical) and other 
kinds of presentations (demonstrations, exhibits 
or posters) for parallel workshops in:

-     DOCUMENTS IN THE ARTS (Literature, Visual 
arts, Music,Dance, Opera, Multi media Art etc.)

-     DOCUMENTS IN HEALTH CARE (Electronic Health 
Record, Doc.management in Health sectorCSCW etc.)

-     DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT (Doc. management in 
public sector, business, science etc)

The workshops will be organized in different 
ways, but in general there will be given appr. 30 
minutes to each presentation including 
discussions. If special equipment and software is 
needed to be at disposal, please mention it as 
specific as possible in the proposal and we will 
do our best to meet the needs.
( OBS: Proposals for alternative workshops are 
welcome). Please send a message as soon as 
possible to niels.windfeld.lund at hum.uit.no 
describing the theme, organisation and practical 
arrangements and suggestions for a responsible 
chairperson.)


III. Proposals for presentation of Ph.d. or M.A. projects
There will be a special session for Ph.d. and MA 
projects with 15 minutes oral presentation , 5 
minutes comment from commentator and 10 minutes 
open discussion. There is room for 6 projects in 
total. Ph.d. projects will be given priority.


Conference language(-s):
The main language of DOCAM is English, but we 
also invite papers and presentations in French, 
German and Spanish, if the abstract and the oral 
presentation are made in English.

Proposals for all kinds of presentations should include:

-     Description:
- a short verbal description of the work to be 
presented at maximum 500-1000 words
- description of how the work would be presented 
(verbal presentation, powerpoint, video, 
performance, demonstration, exhibit etc. and 
equipment needs)

-     names of all contributors,

-     address,  including email contacts and URL

-     up to 5 keywords.

Proposal should be submitted electronically in 
PDF format to niels.windfeld.lund at hum.uit.no as 
soon as possible and at the latest August 31rd 
2005.

All reception of proposals will be confirmed 
within one week. The review process will work 
continously untill September 15. Accepted 
contributions will be notified within 2 weeks 
after receiving a proposal.

Publication of presentations:
All accepted papers and presentations will be 
published in a Open Archive on the website of The 
Document Academy.


NOTE: DUE TO THE SLOWLY, BUT STEADILY GROWING 
INTEREST IN THE DOCAM-MEETINGS,IT IS UNLIKELY 
THAT ALL PROPOSALS OF ACCEPTABLE QUALITY CAN BE 
ACCOMODATED. PROPOSALS WILL BE CONSIDERED  IN 
TERMS OF SCHOLARLY AND/OR INNOVATIVE QUALITY, 
RELEVANCE FOR THE CONFERENCE THEME AND THE NEED 
FOR A BALANCED PROGRAM.
THE NUMBER OF PARALLEL SESSIONS MIGHT BE 
INCREASED TO ACCOMODATE ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS 
OF HIGH QUALITY.
The papers selected for presentation last year is 
available at the DOCAM '04 program
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/04/program.html.


More information can be obtained by contacting 
the chair of The Document Academy, Niels Windfeld 
Lund, professor,
Documentation Studies
Institute of  Culture and Literature
HUM-FAK, University of Tromsoe
Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway
tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239
email: niels.windfeld.lund at hum.uit.no


-- 
Niels Windfeld Lund, professor,
Dokumentasjonsvitenskap - Documentation Studies
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/ansatte/niels.lund/index.html
http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/dokvitnwl/dokkenindex.html