Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and LibraryScience
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researchers from different disciplines to submit original unpublished work in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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