2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, September 22-24, 2010, Ankara, Turkey Symposium web site: by2010.bilgiyonetimi.net The Impact of Technological Convergence and Social Networks on Information Management (First Call for Papers) SCOPE The "2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World," organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 22-24 September 2010. It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of technological convergence and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter on current information management practices in libraries, archives and museums and their implications for education for library and information science. Convergence and social networks also influence the scholarly electronic publishing, open access and institutional archives, digitization of cultural heritage and the socialization of information. The technological convergence is defined as the intertwinement of technologies. A single product such as a cell phone can be used not only to communicate but also to take pictures, listen to music, get access to the Web, and find our way by successfully combining the communication, audio, video, web and GPS technologies. Similarly, our professional, personal and social lives also converge. Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are used not only for social networking and entertainment but also for access to information, for learning and for carrying out professional work. Social networks commonly have Web 2.0 features, offer personalized services and allow users to incorporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users' experience. Users expect information providing organizations to offer similar services and they want libraries to be as accessible, flexible, open to collaboration and sharing as that of social networks. The future of libraries, archives and museums is closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users. Main topics of the Symposium are as follows: Technological Convergence and Information Management Digital information services Digital collection management Web 2.0 and reference services Virtual libraries M-libraries Library 2.0 Convergence and records management Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and semantic Web E-governance and Web 2.0 technologies Publishing and Web 2.0 technologies Open access, institutional archives and Web 2.0 Incorporating user-created content in library collections Social Networks and Web 2.0 Technologies Blogs, wikis, RSS, Second Life Use of social networks Folksonomies Digital natives, digital immigrants Protection of private information Digital rights management Identity management Reputation management Convergence, Social Networks and Education Use of social networks in education Convergence and education for information management Information literacy Web 2.0 technologies and education for information management Distance education and convergence Digitization of Cultural Heritage Digital re-discovery of culture Digital museums and exhibitions Digitization of 2-D and 3-D cultural heritage products European Digital Library, Europeana Digital information policies E-governance and cultural heritage Permanent archiving of digital cultural heritage Socialization of Information and Convergence Right to access to digital information The concept of public space in social networks Social networks and law Digital rights in social networks Digital censorship Life-long learning and social networks Information Organization, Information Architecture and Information Retrieval Ontology development Metadata harvesting Interoperability and standards Information architecture and web design Designing usable web sites Mobile information retrieval GIS and information retrieval Mashups Data mining Interdisciplinary studies Cognitive sciences and information management Webometrics and social networks Bibliometrics and informetrics User studies The themes are not limited with the above topics. In addition to papers, posters, workshops and panels on the impact of convergence and social networks on information management, papers on information and records management in general are also welcome. Please use the template available in the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and proposals, and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf). Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book and the Symposium web site. Selected papers will be published in refereed journals. Important Dates First Call: July 2009 Second Call: October 2009 Third Call: December 2009 Last date to send papers and posters: 18 January 2010 Authors notification: 1 March 2010 Final papers submission and registration: 26 April 2010 Symposium: 22-24 September 2010 All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at sempozyum at bilgiyonetimi.net <http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet> . Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium. Yasar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee Serap Kurbanoglu, Chair of the Programme Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Tel: 0312 297 82 00 Faks: 0312 299 20 14 E-posta: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr <http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet> , serap at hacettepe.edu.tr <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).