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A final reminder about the workshop submission deadline on May
1st.<br>
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This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The 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 earth sciences, biology
collections, (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>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The 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, 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"> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.earthcube.org">http://www.earthcube.org</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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0px;">Important dates:</h3>
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<li class="date-list-bg" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 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;
line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);">June
1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers</li>
<li class="date-list" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5;">June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop</li>
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0px;">Participation:</h3>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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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Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
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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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0px;">Proposal Formats</h3>
<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</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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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">All contributions must be
written in English and use the ACM submission templates,
which are available at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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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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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Please submit papers by May
1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page:<a
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href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016</a></a>.<br>
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of questions.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Unmil Karadkar ((<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:unmil@ischool.utexas.edu"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:unmil@ischool.utexas.edu">unmil@ischool.utexas.edu</a></a>))<br>
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin</p>
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href="mailto:lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu">lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu</a></a>))<br>
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University</p>
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href="mailto:clenhardt@renci.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:clenhardt@renci.org">clenhardt@renci.org</a></a>))<br>
Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>
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