[HASS-RG] Call for papers: Special Session on digital repositories at 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science

[Tobias Blanke]

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Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world

Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science 
(http://escience2008.iu.edu/)

December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA

An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network 
(http://www.dresnet.net <http://www.dresnet.net/>)

There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between 
grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing 
the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories. 
The digital material generated from and used by academic and other 
research is to an increasing extent being held in formal data management 
systems; these systems are variously categorized as digital 
repositories, libraries or archives, although the distinction between 
them relates more to the sort of data that they contain and the use to 
which the data is put, rather than to any major difference in 
functionality. Modern repository systems allow us to move away from the 
model of a stand-alone repository, library or archive, where objects are 
simply deposited for subsequent access and download. Instead, 
researchers are developing more sophisticated models in which these 
containers of data are integrated components of a larger e-Science 
research infrastructure, incorporating advanced tools and workflows, and 
are being used to model complex webs of information and capture 
scholarly or scientific processes in their entirety, from raw data 
through to final publications. Repositories have been successfully 
combined with data grid technologies, and in addition computational 
grids seem to offer possible applications in digital preservation and 
curation, such as automatic metadata extraction and index creation. 
These systems thus could add value to the data-driven research lifecycle 
in e-Science.

Session chairs are:

* Andreas Aschenbrenner - University of Goettingen
* Tobias Blanke - Centre for e-Research, King's College London
* Mark Hedges - Centre for e-Research, King's College London

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Digital preservation and curation in research infrastructures
* Cyberinfrastructures (e.g. data grid technologies) to support digital 
preservation and curation
* Creation and maintenance of asset management for research data
* Provenance
* Federated repositories: content modelling, metadata creation and in 
particular ontology mapping
* Data grid technologies and their role in digital curation and preservation
* Metadata Extraction
* Creation and maintenance of digital libraries for research data
* Access control and security across infrastructure and asset management 
systems
* Persistent identification for research data and digital objects across 
e-Infrastructure
* Provenance and authenticity of digital objects in distributed 
e-Infrastructure
* Information and data services in e-Science applications
* Architecture of Participation: Web 2.0 applications
* Workflow Integration
* Security

Important dates:

* Deadline for Submission of full papers: August 08, 2008
* Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2008
* Final submission of camera-ready papers: September 29, 2008

For further details on the topics of the session, the programme 
committee, and the submission details, please visit either 
http://escience2008.iu.edu/ or http://dresnet.net/ieee-escience-2008-cfp .

-- 
Dr Tobias Blanke
Research Fellow
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Centre for e-Research, King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

+44 (0)20 7848 1975
tobias.blanke at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.ahessc.ac.uk


-- 
Dr Tobias Blanke
Research Fellow
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Centre for e-Research, King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

+44 (0)20 7848 1975
tobias.blanke at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.ahessc.ac.uk