Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information
Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content
The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information repository
where access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform
for collaboration in which content is generated and shared among
users. Also popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications
include blogs, wikis, social networking, media sharing and social
tagging, among many others. As this new avenue for content-generation
becomes increasingly popular, the resulting information explosion
requires new techniques and applications to manage, search and access
such content.
The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) aims
to explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various
technologies underlying user-generated content to provide innovative
and useful services for their users. Since such technologies are 数据挖掘研究院
potentially disruptive, the special issue will also investigate how
support for user-generated content would impact digital libraries,
their administrators, users and other stakeholders.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Use of Web 2.0 technologies in digital libraries
* Mobile services in digital libraries
* Supporting digital library infrastructure and architecture
* Information retrieval and mining techniques
* Virtual worlds and digital libraries
* User communities
* Usability and user needs
* Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content
* Social, institutional and policy issues
Guest Editor: Dr Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
Review decisions to authors: 26 May 2008
Submission of final version: 21 July 2008 数据挖掘研究院
Publication: Before year end 2008
ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSION
Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dion Goh, at
ashlgoh@ntu.edu.sg.
Submission of papers will be done electronically at:
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
In the keywords field of the submission system, please indicate that
the paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital
Libraries and User-Generated Content.
Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions may be
found at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
More information about JoDI may be obtained from:
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
Please also visit the following URL for updates on this special
issue: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home
