------------------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 ---------- Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Christopher.Collins@uoit.ca Glen Newton, Carleton University newtong@acm.org Program Committee ----------------- Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University Contact ------- Please send inquiries for further information to: dvlsdl11@easychair.org. Themes ------ 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 ----- * 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 --------------- 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 ------------ 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 ------------------ Please submit papers by May 22nd via the workshop's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dvlsdl11 Important dates --------------- 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 -------------------- 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