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<div class="moz-forward-container">This Call for Proposals is
available on the workshop web page at: <a
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First International Physical Samples and Digital
Libraries (PSDL 2016) workshop will be held on June 22nd
and 23rd in Newark, NJ in conjunction with the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> JCDL 2016--ACM/IEEE
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.</span> We
solicit participation from both the earth sciences (and
related sciences that collect and manage samples such as
hydrology, archeology, etc.) and digital library
scholarly communities to make this workshop a success.</p>
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goal of this workshop is to bring together the community
of 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 secondary goal is to focus the
attention of the digital libraries community on the
tremendous opportunities for research in this space and
for collaborating with researchers in the Earth
Sciences.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,
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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
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href="http://www.earthcube.org/" target="new">EarthCube</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> (<a
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href="http://www.earthcube.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.earthcube.org">http://www.earthcube.org</a></a>)
</span>Research Coordination Network (RCN)<span
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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>
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dates:</h3>
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<li class="date-list-bg" style="list-style-type: none;
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221);">May 1: paper submissions due</li>
<li class="date-list" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5;">May 8: Notification of acceptance</li>
<li class="date-list-bg" style="list-style-type: none;
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221);">June 1: Submission of final, camera-ready
papers</li>
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line-height: 1.5;">June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop</li>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,
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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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Formats</h3>
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encourage you to submit proposals for:</p>
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<li><b>full papers</b>: up to 8 page submissions that
report on mature work or in an area of interest</li>
<li><b>work-in-progess and position papers</b>: upto 4
page submissions that discuss early results or explore
a significant issue related to the workshop topic</li>
<li><b>posters or demonstrations</b>: 1-2 page
description</li>
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contributions must be written in English and use the ACM
submission templates, which are available at:<span
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href="http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html">http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html</a></a><span
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Process</h3>
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submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair
submission page:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016</a>.<br>
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contact us in case of questions.</p>
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Karadkar ((<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:unmil@ischool.utexas.edu">unmil@ischool.utexas.edu</a>))<br>
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin</p>
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Lehnert((<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu">lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu</a>))<br>
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University</p>
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Lehhardt((<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="mailto:clenhardt@renci.org">clenhardt@renci.org</a>))<br>
Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>
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