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.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of CSCW on “KM in Action”

A call for papers, with submission deadline of 30 April 2010, has been issued for a special issue of the journal, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (ISSNs: 0925-9724 (Print) 1573-7551 (Online)) on the theme, “Knowledge Management in Action.”

Papers are invited on the following topics, which include legal knowledge management:

• “organizational strategies to enact and promote KM within organizations, and their relation with ICT technology
• various kinds of knowledge, application domains, organizational structures, and their implication on KM
• methods and approaches for the design of KM solutions
• techniques and technologies for a sustainable KM (CSCW-based approaches, web-based approaches, etc.)
• critical success factors for KM socio-technical solutions
• evaluation of KM applications in real situations
• lessons-learned in each phase of the KM application life-cycle, from conception up to continuous adaptation
• critical comparison of technologies, field studies and strategies in KM
• any other perspective contributing to a better understanding of KM in action”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Professor Mark Ackerman.