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We have extended the deadline for submitting proposals for this
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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
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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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color="#ff0000">May 10: paper submissions due</font></li>
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<li class="date-list" style="list-style-type: none;
line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#ff0000">May 15:
Notification of acceptance</font></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>
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line-height: 1.5;">June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop</li>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Participation:</h3>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva,
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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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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>: up to 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 <font
color="#ff0000">May 10th</font> 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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of questions.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Unmil Karadkar ((<a
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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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