Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Call for Papers - Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web



Significant Dates
November 30, 2014: Deadline for submission of the first draft of the article
January 15, 2015: Decision of the review committee sent to authors
March 1, 2015: Submission of the final version of the article
June 2015: Publication of the special issue

Guest Editors
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, School of Journalism and Communication, Aix-Marseille University, France    
Elaine Ménard, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Québec, Canada

Themes
The term “Web 2.0” refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible – and intensified – global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers.

This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web’s massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors.

This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes under way within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. The guest editors of this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science invite researchers from different disciplines to submit original unpublished work in connection with the changes brought about by Web 2.0 in these sectors.

Contributions may cover different aspects: epistemological, technological, sociological, economic and political impact of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries, archives, museums and new media. More specifically, contributions should address the following questions:

1. How can institutional repositories (nomenclatures, classification languages, catalogues, thesauri, controlled vocabulary indexing) produced by professionals (librarians, archivists, journalists, curators) accommodate the participatory culture of the social Web and content generated by users?
2. How do Web 2.0 digital devices transform (or not) the relationship that libraries, museums and archives have with the public and vice versa? To what extent are the concepts/phenomena of participatory libraries or museums becoming a reality? Are we moving away from non-participatory past practices toward new practices that are rather participatory?
3. How does the public receive the innovative applications of Web 2.0 technology in libraries, archives and museums?
4. Do technical participatory tools (such as mashups, podcasts, blogs, social tagging/folksonomies, social bookmarking, use of social networks including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn or museum informatics, etc.) create new gateways or new modes of interaction with documentary, archival or museum artifacts?
5. How do physical institutions (museums, libraries, archives) coexist alongside their virtual platforms? Will this coexistence continue (e.g., the threatened closure of libraries in some countries) or will the multiplication of virtual forms of libraries, museums and archives not result in the disappearance or deterritorialization of these institutions as physical places?
6. Is the institutional and historical distinction between archives, libraries and museums challenged by digital phenomena? Are the boundaries between them becoming porous due to new needs generated by the public social Web (e.g., “museo-libraries”)?
7. What socio-professional changes or epistemological repositioning under way among stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and media are caused by these new digital devices?
8. What is the impact of opening up public data for these institutions?

Proposals will be evaluated by two blind reviewers according to the standard practice of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science.
Languages
Submissions are accepted in either English or French.

Deadline
March 2014: Call for submissions
November 30, 2014: Deadline for submission of the first draft of the article
January 15, 2015: Decision of the review committee sent to authors
March 1, 2015: Submission of the final version of the article
June 2015: Publication of the special issue

Submission
For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editors. Send your manuscripts in electronic format (Word or RTF) to:

Guidelines for authors Please indicate at the beginning of your submission which point(s) or theme(s) your paper will address.


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