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<p> This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page
at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdl2017/">https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdl2017/</a>
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<h3 id="home" style="font-size: 14.3px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Research in the Earth Science
disciplines depends on the availability of representative
samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the
moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These
physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating
new knowledge about the earth and the entire universe,
contribute to and a deeper understanding of the processes that
created and shaped it, assess the the availability of natural
resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples
have been collected at great cost and with substantial
difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.earthcube.org/"
target="new">EarthCube</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Research
Coordination Network (RCN)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="http://www.earthcube.org/group/isamples" target="new">iSamplES</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Internet of Samples in
the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative
cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample
collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data
infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of
science.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We welcome participation from
scholars as well as practitioners in disciplines that depend
upon the availability of physical samples, such as earth
sciences, biology, hydrology, archeology, etc. as well as
information and computer sciences. The workshop will be held on
June 22-23, 2017 in Toronto, Canada in conjunction with JCDL
2017 (the link to the conference page is:<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2017.jcdl.org/"
target="new">JCDL 2017</a>).</p>
<h3 id="topics" style="font-size: 14.3px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We invite researchers,
curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the
issues involved in the management of samples, sample
collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in
repositories, in data systems and scientific publications. The
intention is both to assemble the existing community as well as
invite those with emerging interests in this area. A goal of
this workshop is to enable domain scientists, data curators, and
computer and information scientists to learn from each other
about the requirements of physical and digital sample and
collection management. Presentations will address a broad range
of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science
physical samples and digital libraries that facilitate the data
collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include
but are not limited to:</p>
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<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">physical sample collection curation</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">information behavior and needs, user
modeling</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">evaluation of existing environments models</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">theoretical models</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">system architectures</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">social-technical perspectives on digital
methods for sample management</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">policies and workflows</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">data analytics and visualization</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">user interfaces</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">cyberinfrastructure architectures,
applications, and deployments</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">distributed data management information
systems</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">impact of digital libraries on earth
sciences</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">linked data and its applications</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">personal information management of physical
samples</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">retrieval and browsing of sampels</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">scientific data curation, citation, and
scholarly publication</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">social networks, virtual organizations, and
networked information</li>
<li class="topic-list" style="list-style-type: square;
line-height: 1.5;">sample collection archiving and
preservation</li>
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<h3 id="proposals" style="font-size: 14.3px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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formats and submission</h3>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">All contributions must be
written in English.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We encourage you to submit
proposals for:</p>
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<li><b>full papers (3000-4000 words, exclusive of references)</b>:
submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position
in an area of interest</li>
<li><b>work-in-progess papers (1500-2000 words, exclusive of
references)</b>: submissions that present early results or a
nascent project</li>
<li><b>posters or demonstrations (500 words, exclusive of
references)</b>: While the paper authors will present their
work during sessions, posters will be available for attendees
view during the breaks as well as before and after the
workshop.</li>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Please submit papers via the
workshop's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>EasyChair
submission page</b>:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2017"
target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2017</a>.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Accepted submissions will be
published in a special issue of the IEEE-TCDL bulletin in Fall
2017. Authors will also be invited to submit enhanced papers for
a special issue of the International Journal on Digital
Libraries in late 2017.</p>
<h3 id="dates" style="font-size: 14.3px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Important
dates:</h3>
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line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><b>May
10</b>: Paper submissions due</li>
<li class="date-list" style="list-style-type: none; line-height:
1.5;"><b>May 17</b>: Notification of acceptance</li>
<li class="date-list-bg" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><b>May
19</b>: Regular registration for JCDL 2017 ends</li>
<li class="date-list" style="list-style-type: none; line-height:
1.5;"><b>June 10</b>: Submission of revised papers</li>
<li class="date-list-bg" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><b>June
22-23</b>: PSDL 2017 Workshop</li>
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questions.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Unmil Karadkar (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:unmil@ischool.utexas.edu?subject=Physical%20Samples%20iConf%20workshop%20inquiry">unmil@ischool.utexas.edu</a>)<br>
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Kerstin Lehnert(<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu?subject=Physical%20Samples%20iConf%20workshop%20inquiry">lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu</a>)<br>
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University</p>
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Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Chris Lehhardt(<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:clenhardt@renci.org?subject=Physical%20Samples%20iConf%20workshop%20inquiry">clenhardt@renci.org</a>)<br>
Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Sarah Ramdeen(<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ramdeen@email.unc.edu?subject=Physical%20Samples%20iConf%20workshop%20inquiry">ramdeen@email.unc.edu</a>)<br>
School of Information, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill</p>
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