Apologies for cross posting This is the First Call for papers for the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW 2013) in Limerick, Ireland next year. IMCW2013: 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, September 4-6, 2013, Strand Hotel, Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Beyond the Cloud: Information...Innovation...Collaboration... FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium web site: http://imcw2013.bilgiyonetimi.net SCOPE IMCW2013: The "4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" will take place in the Strand Hotel, Limerick, Ireland, from September 4-6, 2013. (http://imcw2013.bilgiyonetimi.net/). Cloud computing has transformed the ways in which both individuals and enterprises make use of IT services and network infrastructure within the last decade. Everything including infrastructure, platforms, applications, software, data, and communication is now seen "as a service". Information, the life-blood of scientific progress, economic growth and social development, is mostly produced, disseminated, used, shared and re-used in digital formats nowadays. Science, industry and business enterprises tend to become "information" enterprises in that even "money" as matter gets converted to "bits" so as to be stored digitally in computers and transmitted as "information" over the network. Enterprises have tended to spend well over 70% of their time and money to support the information technologies (IT) and network infrastructure. Now they embrace cloud-based services to manage information more efficiently and effectively. As information managers we must now look Beyond the Cloud, collaborate in order to innovate and inspire while trying to predict what the future holds. Using cloud-based services increases efficiency, provides cost savings, and enables "collective intelligence" to flourish. Not-for-profit memory institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums are also making use of cloud-based services. To name a few, OCLC's WorldCat, HathiTrust, OAISTER, and Europeana are providing web scale discovery services and aggregated data repositories accessible through the Net. Yet, information organizations and memory institutions should go beyond the cloud-based services to reap the full benefits of the digital age. MAIN THEME "Beyond the Cloud: Information...Innovation...Collaboration..." being the main theme of the Symposium, IMCW2013 aims to bring together information professionals, computer and information scientists, business people and engineers to discuss the implications of cloud computing on information management and to contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative information services beyond the cloud. As organizers, we thought this is an opportune time for IMCW2013 to review the challenges for information organizations, libraries, archives and museums providing information services in the digital age. Such challenges range from developing useful services and workflows embedded in users' work and study environments to benefitting from economies of scale by pooling resources, eliminating redundancies and innovating through collaboration. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions can be theoretical as well as technical and practical. Informative case studies are also welcome. The audience will be information professionals, librarians, archivists, computer and information scientists, and business people, among others. We accept extended abstracts (no less than 750 words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports and posters on all aspects of innovative and collaborative information management. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome. Extended abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf) by March 4, 2013. We also accept proposals to organize workshops, panel sessions and short visual presentations ("pecha kucha"). Proposals should include a title, a short abstract, proposal type (e.g., workshop), the name and contact information of the convener (for sessions and pecha kucha) and be addressed to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by March 4, 2013. Accepted extended abstracts and proposals will appear in the "Book of Abstracts" to be published prior to the Symposium. Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as full papers by May 27, 2013. A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series and the Symposium web site (decision pending). Papers that appear in Springer's CCIS series are indexed in Thomson Reuter's Conference Proceedings Citation Index. MAIN TOPICS Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following: Challenges of Information Management in the Digital Age Developing digital information services Semantic information management Information management in the cloud Distributed collection management and licensing Innovative information management Collaborative information management Infrastructures and networks for information management Systems, tools and services for information management Virtual research environments and information management Community of practices Data ownership Data security Long-term stability of data Privacy Economies of scale Cloud-based Information Services Web-based services Data-centric services Services lifecycle management Information management in the cloud Web scale information discovery through the cloud Data aggregation and data repositories in the cloud Innovative uses of cloud-based information services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Information Management Platforms as a Service (PaaS) for Information Management Applications as a Service (AaaS) for Information Management Software as a Service (SaaS) for Information Management Storage as a Service (SaaS) for Information Management Everything as a Service (EaaS) for Information Management Information Discovery, Organization, and Retrieval Beyond the Cloud Information discovery and identification Information representation Information search, indexing and retrieval Curation, preservation and long-term access Mobile information retrieval Metadata harvesting Metadata extraction Metadata management Metadata interoperability and standards Ontology development Ontology mapping Mining large data sets Information Architecture for Cloud-based Information Services Information architecture and web design for the cloud Grid Networks, services and applications Service Oriented Architecture Designing usable cloud services Information usability Interaction design for cloud services Information visualization tools Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and Institutional Repositories Scholarly publishing process Open access Institutional repositories beyond the cloud Digital libraries beyond the cloud Data warehouses and federated databases beyond the cloud E-publishing Open science Open access to publicly funded scientific information European Infrastructure for e-Science Digital Repositories (e-SciDR) Digital Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage Beyond the Cloud Digitization of scientific and cultural heritage Digital science museums and digital exhibitions Digitization of 2-D and 3-D scientific and cultural heritage objects Digital re-discovery of culture The European Digital Library, Europeana, beyond the cloud Permanent archiving of digital scientific and cultural heritage beyond the cloud Social and Cultural Issues Beyond the Cloud Digital information policies Intellectual property rights Digital rights management Legal and cultural issues Value of information (VOI) Information quality standards Education for Information Management Blended librarianship Cloud librarianship E-science librarianship Data curation education Information stewardship Biomedical informatics Environmental informatics Bioinformatics Digital humanities, arts and e-social sciences Support services for researchers, students and general public Life-long learning Information literacy ORGANIZERS Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Turkey Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE � Ya�ar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair) � Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey) � Jerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) � Padraig Kirby (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) � Serap Kurbano�lu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) � M�che�l Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland) � Or�un Madran (At�l�m University, Turkey) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE � Serap Kurbano�lu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair) � Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey) � Jerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) � Padraig Kirby (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) � Or�un Madran (At�l�m University, Turkey) � Ya�ar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) LOCAL COMMITTEE � Jerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) (Co-chair) � Padraig Kirby (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) (Co-chair) IMPORTANT DATES First Call: October 2012 Second Call: December 2012 Third Call: February 2013 Last date to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: 04 March 2013 Authors notification: 8 April 2013 Submission of extended abstracts in final form: 30 April 2012 Registration starts: May 1, 2013 Submission of full papers (if desired): 27 May 2013 Symposium: 4-6 September 2013 All suggestions and comments are welcome. 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Ya�ar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee Serap Kurbano�lu, Chair of the Programme Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Tel: 0312 297 82 00 Faks: 0312 299 20 14 E-posta: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS Senior Library Assistant The Library Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish park Limerick Ireland 00353 61 448516 [log in to unmask] This email, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged and/or confidential. Access by any other party is unauthorised without the express written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error you may not copy or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender via e-mail return. 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