45th HICSS 2012

Call for Papers: Digital Libraries  [A Minitrack of Digital Media: Content and Communications]

Since the advent of high speed internet access and inexpensive storage, libraries around the world are building repositories of their books, papers, and other works which can be digitized or which were born digital. Repositories are growing rapidly in scope and number, for example, Project Gutenberg, Google Book Search, the Internet Archive, the World Digital Library, and many others. Topics for this mini-track include but are not limited to: 

• Digital libraries development, architecture, and management
• Management of born digital and multimedia content
• Management of and conversion workflows for physical media
• Harvest and preservation of internet content
• Digital object storage and retrieval
• Multi-lingual and interoperability issues
• Copyrights and digital rights management
• Digital preservation and access management
• Digital library case studies
• Digital library standards and policies
• Open archive initiatives
• Role of digital libraries in educational, cultural, social and economic development

HICSS papers must contain original material, and not be previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.  Abstracts are optional. You may contact the Minitrack Chairs Andreas Rauber, Frederick Zarndt, or Jieh Hsiang for guidance or verification of content. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to Andreas Rauber, Frederick Zarndt, or Jieh Hsiang. To submit a paper, follow author instructions found at http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu.

You may submit a paper to only one minitrack. Duplicate submissions may be rejected by any or all minitracks, without consultation with author. An individual may be listed as author/co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers.  Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission. 

For descriptions of all HICSS 45 minitracks please see http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45tracks.htm.

Important Deadlines

Jun 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.

Aug 15: Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System. (Make sure your server accepts the address.) At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference.

Sept 15: Accepted authors submit Final Paper. At least one author of each paper must register by this date. This is the Early Registration fee deadline.

Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings.

The conference venue is Grand Wailea ~ 13850 Wailea Alanui Drive, Wailea, Maui HI 96753 USA Tel +1.800.888.6100 http://www.grandwailea.com/

Minitrack chairs

Frederick Zarndt
Global Connexions
Coronado CA 92118
USA
frederick@global-connexions.com 

Andreas Rauber
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
Vienna University of Technology
Vienna A-1040, Austria
rauber@ifs.tuwein.ac.at.

Jieh Hsiang
Research Center for Digital Humanities
National Taiwan University
Tapei, Taiwan
jhsiang@ntu.edu.tw


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