Call for Papers

International Seminar on Digital Humanities and Digital Societies in the Contemporary World (DHDS 2018)

Dates: 18-19^th January 2018

Venue: Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta

CALL FOR PAPERS (NOW CLOSED)

Paper Format: around 3000 words, Times New Roman, single-spaced, numbered headings/subheadings, references in APA style. Paper should be sent as MSWord attachment to incon2018@gmail.com with a copy to susmita@caluniv.ac.in, with a copyright declaration (signed and scanned in your letter head) in the following format:

The paper ................(title)............... written by ..........(authors) ......... is an original contribution and has neither been published before or nor submitted for publication anywhere.

Seminar Dates: 18-19^th January 2018 Workshop/Tutorial Dates: 17th and 20th January 2018

Last date for submission of abstract: 31st December 2017

Acceptance letters/Modification requests will be sent by 2nd Jan. 2018

Submission of Power Point Presentation: 10th Jan. 2018

Last date for submission of full paper: 12th January 2018

Theme and sub-themes:

The seminar will focus on contemporary research and practices in different facets of Digital Humanities, Digital Social Sciences, Digital STEM and Open Research Data. The seminar will have following sub-themes:

· Libraries in Digital Humanities/ Digital Societies: Role of Public Library/ Special Library/ Academic Library in advancing Digital Humanities/ Digital Societies, Community -Library Interaction

· Digital Humanities – best practices, success stories, institutional case studies, Digital Preservation, Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Assets, Preservation of Documentary Heritage Assets, Metadata Schemas for Digital Archiving

· Digital Social Sciences – Digital Social science knowledge systems and practices

· Digital STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) – Knowledge Repositories, Knowledge Systems and Research Communication Strategies

Digital Humanities and Digital Societies as reflected in curriculum in LIS Education and Training

· Open Research Data: Digital Preservation of Research Data, FAIR Principles in Research Data, Open Science and Research Dissemination, Open Government Platforms, Citizen Participation in Good Governance, Research Data in Collaborative Networks

· Ethical Issues in Open Science: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Publications Ethics, Contemporary Ethical Standards in Academic Research

· Based on the number of willing participants, there will be pre/post seminar Workshops/Tutorials.

Pre/post seminar Workshops/Tutorials:

17th January 2018: Digital Content Management Tools (Wordpress, Joomla, etc)

17th January 2018: Publications Ethics and Plagiarism

17th January 2018: RDA and Linked Data

20th January 2018: Facilitating Reflection on Responsible Research and Innovation (Train-the-Trainer workshop)

20th January 2018: Introduction to Altmetrics

For registering to the workshop/tutorial: See the page for Workshops/Tutorials