<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Anybody out there have Doctoral Students? Here's a great opportunity to have them present their work and get outside feedback!<div><br></div><div>**********************************<br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.jcdl2009.org/node/24">http://www.jcdl2009.org/node/24</a><br><br>Doctoral Consortium CFP<br>The Doctoral Consortium of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries<br>Call for Participation<br>June 15 - 19, 2009 - Austin, TX<br><br>What is the Doctoral Consortium?<br><br>The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the<br>world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work (i.e., the<br>consortium is not intended for those who are finished or nearly finished<br>with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help<br>students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and<br>general advice on using the research environment in a constructive and<br>international atmosphere. Students will present and discuss their thesis<br>in the context of a well-known and established international conference<br>outside of their usual university atmosphere. The workshop will take<br>place on a single full day. Up to 15 students will have the opportunity to<br>participate. Limited funding may be available to partially offset travel<br>and registration costs for those students with severe financial need.<br><br>Several prominent professors and experienced practitioners in the field<br>of digital library research in organizations from different countries<br>and continents will conduct the workshop. They will review all the<br>submissions and comment on the content of the thesis as well as on the<br>presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research,<br>focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved<br>so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes<br>is reserved for discussion and feedback from both the professors and<br>other participants. In the course of the workshop students will also get<br>advice on more general questions, e.g. the differences of Ph.D. studies<br>in different countries.<br><br>Call for Papers and Topics<br><br>Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should<br>submit an extended abstract (see details below) describing their<br>Digital Library research. Submissions relating to any aspect of Digital<br>Library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, including:<br>technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social<br>and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction<br>and design advances, and innovative in the sciences, humanities,<br>and education.<br><br>To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please<br>provide an extended abstract of your doctoral work and upload it at<br><a href="http://www.jcdl2009.org/">www.jcdl2009.org</a>. The extended abstract is restricted to 4000 words<br>(approx. 8 pages). Submissions should be submitted electronically in<br>pdf format. The abstracts should<br><br>* Clearly formulate the research question,<br><br>* Identify the significant problems in the field of research,<br><br>* Summarize the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well<br>as the state of the art for solutions,<br><br>* Clearly present any preliminary research plans and ideas, and<br>the results achieved so far,<br><br>* Sketch the research methodology that is to be applied,<br><br>* Describe the expected contributions of the applicant to the<br>research area, and<br><br>* (For technical research) describes how the research is innovative,<br>novel or extends existing approaches to a problem.<br><br>Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness,<br>and clarity. Workshop participation is limited to 15 Ph.D. students.<br><br>Proceedings<br><br>Accepted abstracts will be distributed to participants as the workshop<br>proceedings and made available to participants via the JCDL Doctoral<br>Consortium digitally. Participants will be invited to include their<br>abstracts in a special issue of the TCDL Bulletin, the publication of<br>the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries.<br><br>Important Dates<br><br>March 23, 2009 Deadline for submission of abstracts<br><br>April 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance<br><br>June 15, 2009 Doctoral Consortium<br><br>June 15 - 19, 2009 JCDL<br><br>Contact Address<br><br>Requests for information should be e-mailed to <a href="mailto:megan@ischool.utexas.edu">megan@ischool.utexas.edu</a><br>and <a href="mailto:mln@cs.odu.edu">mln@cs.odu.edu</a>.</div></div></body></html>