Helen C. White Hall
DOCAM ’08 is the fifth Annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society.
The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense, drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, Norway and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. For 2008, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies will be hosting the meeting.
A preliminary program will be available online on November 15th, 2007, on the site of The Document Academy: http://www.thedocumentacademy.org
The conference will run from 9 AM Friday, March 28, to 5 PM Saturday, March 29. In order to keep the open-ended discussion atmosphere of previous DOCAMs alive along with a growing number of participants, we have decided to have only plenary sessions and a relatively limited, but well-selected number of presentations.
Call for proposals:
Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document research and development are invited to submit proposals for full and short papers or other kinds of presentation for plenary sessions and exhibits as soon as possible and not later than by:
I: Full papers for plenary sessions on :
- DOCUMENT THEORY (general issues)
- DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (case-studies and methodological issues)
Each author or group of authors will have 45 minutes for their presentation, including discussion, allowing 8 papers in total, 4 in each category.
Length: 6000-7500 words
I I: Short papers (theoretical and empirical works in progress) for plenary sessions in:
Document research (theory, methods, case-studies)
Each author or group of authors will have 30 minutes for their presentation, including discussion, allowing for 10 short presentations. The order of presentations will be arranged according to themes as much as possible.
Length: 240—3600 words
Conference language is English. Conference organizers can provide an LCD projector; other equipment is the responsibility of the presenter.
File format: RTF or PDF
Submission deadline: December 1st, 2007
All proposals must include:
*Description :
- a short verbal description of the work to be presented; 500 word maximum
- Explanation 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
Proposals should be submitted electronically to Catherine Arnott Smith (casmith24@wisc.edu) . Please include “DOCAM 2008” in the subject line and submit at any time before 11:59 PM, December 15th, 2007.
Receipt will be confirmed within one week. Decisions will be announced no later than January 15, 2007.
For more information contact the co-chairs of Docam 2008:
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 890-1334
fax: (608) 263-4849
casmith24@wisc.edu
Prof. Niels Windfeld Lund
Documentation Studies
University of Tromsø
NO-9037 Tromsø, Norge
Tel: +47- 776 46284
niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no