4th African Conference for Digital Scholarship and Curation
'Innovation & collaboration in the digital research and learning environments'
Collaboration is an acknowledged and important source of innovative thinking. The rapid development of new and emerging technologies have ensured that the creation and pursuit of new ideas can be brought to community by networks of individuals, selected because of their individual contributions and credibility, and operating in a coordinated manner. This conference will attempt to surface some of the innovations brought about as a result of such collaborations. We will also endeavour to highlight the role technology plays in enabling collaborations and in collectively building repositories of data and knowledge.
The deployment of powerful computers, high-speed networks, and large scale storage technologies has made the academic and research landscape increasingly dynamic. Emerging professional are much more information and computer literate than ever before. They also have a very different expectation for both the university and work experience. These transformations oblige us in academia, research and the general information service provision industry to seriously seek and develop strategies and solutions to effectively harness the new opportunities. The 2-day conference is organized under the joint banner of the Network of Data and Information Curation Centres (NeDICC), the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria (South Africa). The conference will address various issues of digital scholarship, digital curation and the accompanying emerging technologies.
Authors are invited to submit proposals for workshops linked to the main and sub-themes of the conference. Proposals (in electronic format) for, posters and workshops should be submitted before 31 January 2011.
Please submit to:
Nomvuyelo Ngcangula
Email: nngcangula@csir.co.za
Conference Dates and Venue
Dates: 17 -19 May 2011
Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
Conference theme
Main theme: Innovation & collaboration in the digital research and learning environments
Sub-themes
Research
Innovative research
Research and scientific collaboration
Innovation in science
eResearch and eScience
Virtual Research Environments
Data management
Data curation
Preservation
Managing large data sets
Data repositories
Data mining for research purposes
Mobile service delivery
Teaching and learning
eLearning and mLearning
Gaming in education
Open and distance learning in a digital environment
Digital scholarship readiness
Virtual worlds
Living labs
Technical infrastructure
Africa's undersea fibre infrastructure
Cloud and grid computing
Open source
Digital divides
Web 2.0 technologies & applications
Emerging technologies and Digital scholarship
Remote hosting services
Disseminating research results
Open access
Open data
Digital commons
Digitization
Institutional repositories
Federated repositories
Policies
Ethics, trust and intellectual property in the e-Environment
Protection of indigenous knowledge in an electronic environment
Scholarly communication, peer review and publications in a digital environment
Data and information security
eResearch and indigenous knowledge
Quality assurance and best practices in digital scholarship
Policy frameworks for digital scholarship
Research management in digital environments
Activities
Paper presentations
Poster presentations
Exhibitions
Workshops
Key Deadlines
Deadline for full paper submission by presenters: 30 January 2011
Draft programme released: early February 2011
Presentation files submitted: 1 May 2011
Submissions for posters: 31 January 2011
Submissions for workshops: 31 January 2011
Target audience
Scientists and researchers
Research managers
Educationists
Information scientists, Librarians and other information professionals
ICT infrastructure service providers and managers - mobile services, computing and software
System engineers
System developers
Information Technology Managers
Spatial and other data analysts
e-Space analyst
Technology stewards
Archivists, records managers, curators
Policy makers - in tertiary education, science and technology centres
Young professionals: those who need to gain exposure to the new work environment; and
Seasoned professionals wanting to stay relevant.
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