[Infovis] CFP: Workshop on Discovery through Visualization in Large Scale Digital Libraries

Christopher Collins Christopher.Collins at uoit.ca
Fri Apr 22 00:00:42 CEST 2011


------------------Workshop Announcement--------------------

Discovery through Visualization in large scale Digital Libraries
June 16-17, 2011 (Thursday afternoon - Friday morning)
Ottawa, Canada
http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/dvlsdl11

A Workshop in conjunction with
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2011 (JCDL2011)
http://jcdl2011.org

The "Discovery through Visualization in large scale Digital Libraries"
workshop will be held on June 16th and 17th, 2011 in Ottawa, Canada in
conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries. We solicit your participation to make this workshop a success.

Organizers
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Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
  Christopher.Collins at uoit.ca
Glen Newton, Carleton University newtong at acm.org

Program Committee
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Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University

Contact
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Please send inquiries for further information to: dvlsdl11 at easychair.org.

Themes
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Large scale digital repositories are becoming ever more prevalent,
allowing researchers easy access to large amounts of data in a wide
variety of forms -- electronic and scanned books, archival records,
audio documents, illustrations, etc. These DLs contain valuable and
useful domain knowledge, but discovering this knowledge is constrained
both by the scale of the DL and the limits of the tools extant to
exploit it. This workshop will focus on interactive information
visualization as a collection of tools and techniques which promise to
increase our ability to understand, curate, manage, and analyze large
scale DLs, and to support research and discovery by end users of
DLs. This includes the discovery of knowledge about (new and existing)
facts, concepts, relationships, behaviours, and processes.

Goals
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* to provide a stimulating forum for researchers in visualization and large scale DLs.
* to identify a research agenda concerning the area of visualization of large scale DLs
* to exploit potentially useful theories, methodologies, and technologies
* to establish long-term interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers
* to raise the awareness of the state of the art in this area

Call for Papers
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All interested persons are invited to register for the workshop even
if they do not submit a paper but papers are encouraged to focus
discussion and increase participation. Position papers as well as
those reporting on work in progress are welcome. We invite submissions
on a broad range of topics including:
* Domain specific discovery
* Link and relationship analysis
* Semantic web and linked data visualization
* Mixed-media (e.g. text+illustration) DLs
* Usability and interaction techniques for visual interfaces
* Structure and granularity of textual information
* Visualizing data variation over time and space
* Real world applications & examples
* Scalability issues

Paper proposals are due on May 22nd. Please see the submission
details for information about paper format and the submission
process.

The submitted papers will be assessed for their relevance to the
workshop and a limited number of papers will be selected for
presentation at the workshop. Selected papers will be distributed
to attendees at the workshop and made available for long-term access
through publication in a special issue of the IEEE-TCDL Bulletin.

All interested persons are invited to register for the workshop even
if they do not submit a paper.  However, in order to focus
discussion and increase participation, submission of papers is
strongly encouraged.

Paper Format
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Papers must not exceed 6 pages. All contributions must be written in
English and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines and use the ACM
templates, which are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html .

Submission Process
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Please submit papers by May 22nd via the workshop's EasyChair
submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dvlsdl11

Important dates
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May 22: Paper submissions due
May 27: Notification of acceptance
June 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers for distribution
at the workshop
June 13-17: JCDL 2011
June 16-17: Discovery through Visualization in large scale Digital Libraries
June 16: Workshop dinner-plan to go to dinner with other participants

Important JCDL dates
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Web site: http://www.jcdl2011.org/
June 13: Conference: Tutorials
June 14-16: JCDL Conference program
June 16-17: Conference: Workshops


______________________________________________________________
Christopher Collins, Ph.D. \ Assistant Professor
Faculty of Science \ University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
(905) 721-8668 ext. 6581 \ http://www.christophercollins.ca




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