Call for Papers: iConference 2011

A call for papers — with submissions deadline of 30 August 2010 — has been issued for iConference 2011: The Annual Conference of Information Science Schools (iSchools), to be held 8-11 February 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA. The conference is hosted by the University of Washington Information School.

Papers are invited on the following themes in information science:

• Social inclusion
• Context
• Materiality
• Personalization
• Memory

This conference may be of interest to legal informatics and communication scholars because a number of legal informatics and communication research topics fall within the conference themes, and because legal informatics and communications papers have been presented at previous iConferences, such as Tom Bruce’s paper on ensuring public access to digital legal information at iConference 2010.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Karen Fisher.

Ensuring Public Access to Digital Legal Information: To Be Discussed at iConference 2010

[NOTE: Updated on 9 February 2010 to link to slides from the presentations (HT @freegovinfo). Updated on 3 February 2010 to link to the abstract for the roundtable. HT @freegovinfo.]

Ensuring online public access to legal information will be discussed by Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, at Roundtable Number 4, “Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: Assuring Access to Government Information in the Digital Age” (scroll down) (click here for the abstract for the roundtable), to be held 4 February 2010 at 3:45 p.m., at iConference 2010 [the conference of iSchools], at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library & Information Science, in Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Click here for slides from the presentations (HT @freegovinfo).

(Among the topics discussed by the panelists was the Law.gov legal open government data project).

Other roundtable panelists include:

• Cynthia Etkin of the U.S. Government Printing Office;
• James R. Jacobs of the Stanford University Library;
• Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation;
• ShinJoung Yeo of Stanford University Library.

HT @freegovinfo.