NEW CALL FOR PAPERS TO DOCAM '04
The Document Academy
presents:
DOCAM 04
on:
Document
as
Concept - Tool - Perspective
The Second International Conference on Document
Research and Development in Sciences, Arts and Business
October 22-24, 2004
University of California, Berkeley
DOCAM 04 is the second
annual meeting of The Document Academy, an international network chaired and
cosponsored by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsoe,
Norway and The School of Information
Management and Systems, UC Berkeley.
The aim of The Document Academy is to create a global space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense drawing on traditions and experiences around the world.
That means that the Academy is open for scholars, artists, businessmen, students and many other kinds of people attempting to do the very best at the same time as one is still making "work in progress".
The DOCAM-meetings are intended to be events where people interested in a document approach can meet, present, and discuss research, ideas, experiments etc. in a relatively open-ended athmosphere. This means that the presentations will be kept short and time for discussion will be given priority.
As key-note speaker this year we have the pleasure of presenting our French partner:
Jean-Michel Salan, ENSSIB - RTP-DOC
Prof. Salan is professor at L' Ecole nationale des sciences
de l'information et des bibliothques (ENSSIB -
http://www.enssib.fr). In 2000-2003 he was the head
of the Institut des sciences du document numrique (ISDN) (2000-2003), a
network of 17 labs in Rhne-Alpes district (http://isdn.enssib.fr), and he is
now the chief manager of the Rseau Thmatique Pluridisciplinaire 33,
"Documents et contenu : cration, indexation, navigation" (2002
- ), a national network in
Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, CNRS (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr).
Call for papers to DOCAM
04
The
main goal for DOCAM '04 is to develop a space and offer time for
interdisciplinary and international research cooperation on Document Research
and Development.
The multidisciplinary approach in the project enables us to study the problem of documents from different perspectives, both theoretical and experimental. The international environment enables presentation and exchange of different scientific traditions as well as different social and cultural experiences with documents.
Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners around the world working with document research and development are invited to submit 500 words proposals for papers, posters or demonstrations for seminars and workshops at DOCAM 04 by May 1st 2004.
Background for the theme Document as concept - tool - perspective
The
main agenda DOCAM '04 is to consider if and how a document approach can be
useful as an analytical concept, as a practical tool in society and a relevant
perspective on processes in society today.
The concept of document is used as an
analytical category almost only in library and information science, textual
criticism and computer science. Compared to discussions on concepts like sign,
text, medium and genre, relatively little theoretical work has been done on the
concept of document. One of the reasons may be the dominant understanding of a
document as a very material object and thus of little interest for humanists
interested in the meaning of human expressions. This situation might change due
to the development of digital media environments. One needs still to delimit
meaningful totalities in the digital space and since they are all digital
products, one can draw on the tradition in computer science and conceive them
as documents and use the concept of document as an analytical category like
concepts as text, media and genre. Since the new media do have a significant
impact on the meaning of document, you have to develop new methods in order to
analyze both old and new kinds of documents and focus on the complex
relationship between the material, social and mental aspects of documents.
We therefore especially welcome proposals on the following themes:
Documents in different convergent media environments
(e.g. analogue - digital environments, arts, health care, mass media, business
etc.)
Document types (audio, visual, verbal, multimedial,
performative)
Concepts (document, comparison of the concept of document
with other concepts (sign, text, discourse, representation etc.))
Methods (hermeneutics, experiments)
Technology (analogue and digital instruments, experimental
instruments)
Proposals should include:
- a short description of the work to be presented,
- name of all contributors,
- address, including email contacts and URL,
- a list of up to 5 keywords.
Abstract should be submitted electronically in Word or RTF format to niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no on August 1st 2004 at the latest.
Accepted contributions notified September 1st 2004.
Full version should be delivered in RTF or PDF format on October 15 2004.
Further details concerning program, registration, accomodation etc. will be available on and added continously to the website of The Document Academy, http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/.
Any questions concerning DOCAM04 and The Document Academy can be addressed to the chair of the Document Academy, Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Chair of program in Documentation Studies
HUM-FAK /University of Tromsoe
Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway
tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239
niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no