2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World,
September 22-24, 2010, Ankara, Turkey

The Impact of Technological Convergence and Social Networks on Information Management

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The "2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World," organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 22-24 September 2010.  It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of technological convergence and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter on current information management practices in libraries, archives and museums and their implications for education for library and information science.  Convergence and social networks also influence the scholarly electronic publishing, open access and institutional archives, digitization of cultural heritage and the socialization of information.  

The technological convergence is defined as the intertwinement of technologies.  A single product such as a cell phone can be used not only to communicate but also to take pictures, listen to music, get access to the Web, and find our way by successfully combining the communication, audio, video, web and GPS technologies.  Similarly, our professional, personal and social lives also converge.  Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are used not only for social networking and entertainment but also for access to information, for learning and for carrying out professional work. Social networks commonly have Web 2.0 features, offer personalized services and allow users to incorporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users’ experience.  Users expect information providing organizations to offer similar services and they want libraries to be as accessible, flexible, open to collaboration and sharing as that of social networks.  The future of libraries, archives and museums is closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users.

Main topics of the Symposium are as follows:

Technological Convergence and Information Management

• Digital information services
• Digital collection management
• Web 2.0 and reference services
• Virtual libraries
• M-libraries
• Library 2.0
• Convergence and records management
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Semantic Web
• E-governance and Web 2.0 technologies
• Publishing and Web 2.0 technologies
• Open access, institutional archives and  Web 2.0
• Incorporating user-created content in library collections

Social Networks and Web 2.0 Technologies

• Blogs, wikis, RSS, Second Life
• Use of social networks
• Folksonomies
• Digital natives, digital immigrants
• Protection of private information
• Digital rights management
• Identity management
• Reputation management

Convergence, Social Networks and Education

• Online education
• Use of social networks in education
• Convergence and education for information management
• Information literacy
• Web 2.0 technologies and education for information management
• Distance education and convergence

Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage

• Digitization of cultural heritage
• Digital re-discovery of culture
• Digital museums and exhibitions
• Digitization of 2-D and 3-D cultural heritage products
• The European Digital Library, Europeana
• Digital information policies
• E-governance and cultural heritage
• Permanent archiving of digital cultural heritage

Socialization of Information and Convergence

• Right to access to digital information 
• The concept of public space in social networks
• Social networks and law
• Digital rights in social networks
• Digital censorship
• Life-long learning and social networks

Information Organization, Information Architecture and Information Retrieval

• Ontology development
• Metadata harvesting
• Interoperability and standards
• Information architecture and web design
• Designing usable web sites
• Mobile information retrieval
• GIS and information retrieval
• Mashups
• Data mining

Interdisciplinary studies

• Cognitive sciences and information management
• Webometrics and social networks
• Bibliometrics and informetrics
• User studies

The themes are not limited with the above topics.  In addition to papers, posters, workshops and panels on the impact of convergence and social networks on information management, papers on information and records management in general are also welcome.  Student papers and posters will also be considered. Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book and the Symposium web site.  Selected papers will be published in refereed journals.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCESS

The language of the Symposium is Turkish and English. In addition to refereed papers, posters and workshop proposals are also considered. Papers, posters and workshop proposals should be prepared using the templates available through the Symposium web site. Full texts of papers and posters and workshop proposals in final form should be submitted electronically by February 1, 2010.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors will be notified of the outcome by March 15, 2010. Final copies of the accepted papers and posters should be sent in by April 26, 2010 in order for them to be included in the Symposium proceedings book. Workshop proposals will also be reviewed by the Program Committee and the authors will be notified by March 15, 2010.

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS BOOK

The Symposium proceedings book including all accepted papers and posters along with the summaries of workshops will be published prior to the Symposium and made available to the registered participants during the Symposium. In addition, Springer will publish accepted papers written in English under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series as a separate proceedings book (CCIS Home Page: www.springer.com/series/7899). CCIS Series is abstracted and indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceedings Index and Scopus. Springer’s proceedings book will be available during the Symposium.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Yaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair)
• Gülbün Baydur (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• İrfan Çakın (Hacettepe University, Turkey)                   
• Milena Dobreva (Strathclyde University, Scotland)
• Serap Kurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey)         
• Mehmet Emin Küçük (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Özgür Külcü (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh (Dublin University, Ireland)
• Orçun Madran (Başkent University, Turkey)
• N. Erol Olcay (Turkey)
• İnci Önal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• John Regazzi, (Long Island University, USA)
• Jordan M. Scepanski (Jordan Wells Associates, USA)
• Nazan Özenç Uçak (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Bülent Yılmaz (Hacettepe University, Turkey)    

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 

• Serap Kurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair)
• Mustafa Akgül (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• Buket Akkoyunlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Arif Altun (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Nazlı Alkan (Ankara University, Turkey)
• Bekir Kemal Ataman (Marmara University, Turkey)
• Doğan Atılgan (Ankara University, Turkey)
• Ágnes Hajdu Barát (University of Szeged, Hungary)
• Carla Basili (Ceris Institute, Italian National Research Council, Italy)
• Gülbün Baydur (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Yıltan Bitirim (Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC)
• Albert Boekhorst (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands)
• Michael Buckland (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Mehmet Canatar (İstanbul University, Turkey)
• Banu Cangöz (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Leslie Chan (University of Toronto, Canada)     
• Kürşat Çağıltay (METU, Turkey)
• İrfan Çakın (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Ahmet Çelik (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Milena Dobreva (Strathclyde University, Scotland)
• Aydın Erar (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey)
• Levent Ertürk (Atılım University, Turkey)
• Maria Francisca Abad Garcia (Valencia University, Spain)
• Chris Hagar (Dominican University, USA)
• Suliman Hawamdeh (Oklahoma University, USA) 
• Forest Woody Horton (International Library and Information Consultant, USA)
• Aleksandra Horvat (Zagreb University, Croatia)
• Maija-Leena Huotari (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Nikolo Ikonomov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
• Oğuz İcimsoy (Marmara University, Turkey)
• Ian M. Johnson (The Robert Gordon University, Scotland)
• Leif Kajberg (Independent Researcher/Adviser, Denmark)
• Hamza Kandur (Marmara University, Turkey)
• Rajkumar Kannan (Bishop Heber College, India)
• Sekine Karakaş (Ankara University, Turkey)
• Asker Kartarı (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Hasan Keseroğlu (Istanbul University, Turkey)
• Adolf Knoll (The National Library, Czech Republic)
• Dincho I. Krastev  (Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
• Mehmet Emin Küçük (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Özgür Külcü (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Jesús Lau (USBI VER Library Veracruzana University, Mexico)
• Aira Lepik (Tallinn University, Estonia)
• Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh (Dublin University, Ireland)
• Jeppe Nicolaisen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
• İnci Önal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Fahrettin Özdemirci (Ankara University, Turkey)
• John Regazzi (Long Island University, USA)
• Angela Repanovici (Transilvania University of Braso (Romania)
• Fernanda Ribeiro (Porto University, Portugal)
• Jordan M. Scepanski (Jordan Wells Associates, USA)
• İrem Soydal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Fatoş Subaşıoğlıu (Ankara University, Turkey)
• Yaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Nilüfer Tuncer (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Nazan Özenç Uçak (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Yurdagül Ünal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Ayşe Üstün (Istanbul University, Turkey)
• Willy van der Kwaak (The Hague University, Netherlands)
• Sirje Virkus (Tallinn University, Estonia)
• Aleksandra Vranes (Belgrade University, Serbia)
• Shelia Weber (University of Sheffield, England)
• Daniela Živković (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Bülent Yılmaz (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
• Aysel Yontar (Near East University, TRNC)

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IMPORTANT DATES

• First Call: July 2009
• Second Call: October 2009
• Third Call: December 2009
• Last date to send full-text papers, posters and workshop proposals: 1 February 2010
• Authors notification (papers and posters): 15 March 2010
• Authors notification (workshop proposals): 15 March 2010
• Final papers submission and registration: 26 April 2010
• Symposium: 22-24 September 2010

All suggestions and comments are welcome. E-mail: sempozyum@bilgiyonetimi.net.

Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium.

Yaşar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee
Serap Kurbanoğlu, Chair of the Programme Committee
Hacettepe University
Department of Information Management
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Tel: 0312 297 82 00
Fax: 0312 299 20 14
E-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr, serap@hacettepe.edu.tr