Below please find a call for papers for a minitrack at the Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science, January 2005, on Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning. Please forward to appropriate lists and colleagues. This minitrack was put together to address alternate views of knowledge management (KM), e.g., ideas that challenge knowledge-based systems' concepts of knowledge "codification" and "transfer", and studies that pay attention to situated knowledge. We seek papers that examine the processes associated with knowledge creation, sharing, communication, recognition, evaluation and internalization, and their implications for the use of ICTs, as well as presentation of alternate kinds of knowledge management systems. We are interested in submissions addressing social studies of science (and e-science), education (and online learning, online education systems), library and information science, as well as management and business-organization studies. We welcome papers that explore what is shared as well as what is not shared in defining the role and significance of ICTs in the knowledge-sharing process. Finally, we are interested in studies and presentations of applications such as collaboratories which provide a mix of means of communicating, storing and retrieving information in support of knowledge processes. We are looking for both thoughtful, informed empirical studies as well as strong theoretical that present rich conceptualizations of how ICTs may support knowledge sharing. Questions can be addressed to me Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu), or to either of the other co-chairs: Saonee Sarker ( ssarker@wsu.edu), and Susan Gasson (sgasson@cis.drexel.edu) --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island of Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005 (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/) We invite submissions for a minitrack on Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning (KM/OM/OL). Abstracts to minitrack co-chairs March 31, 2004 Full papers to minitrack co-chairs June 15, 2004 Details of the KM/OM/OL cluster can be found here: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Hicss38/foscfp.htm#***CLUSTER*** Minitrack Co-Chairs Saonee Sarker (Primary Contact) Washington State University ssarker@wsu.edu Susan Gasson Drexel University sgasson@cis.drexel.edu Caroline Haythornthwaite University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign haythorn@uiuc.edu Information And Communication Technologies In Support Of Km/Om/Ol This minitrack looks at technical issues and tools for building and supporting knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning systems including the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support the sharing of knowledge between individuals, groups, and organizations in a variety of contexts (e.g., collocated, distributed nationally or internationally). In addition, we welcome studies with implications on social/technical design of systems enabling knowledge sharing. We encourage papers that explore the role of information and communication technologies (e.g., knowledge management systems, digital libraries, online learning environments, intranets, etc.) in mediating/facilitating knowledge sharing. Papers that generate new paradigms and present alternatives to the knowledge-based systems' concepts of knowledge "codification" and "transfer" are of interest. Potential topics include: -- How ICTs affect knowledge sharing. -- Knowledge characteristics in ICT-mediated collaboration. -- ICT design attributes that facilitate or constrain effective knowledge sharing. -- The role of ICTs in facilitating collaborative work. -- Tools and technologies for developing KM/OM/OL oriented Systems -- Capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use of knowledge and organizational memory -- Development and use of taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge/topic maps -- Development and implementation of Knowledge networks -- Developing processes and systems for visualizing knowledge -- New paradigms for KM. Dates March 31, 2004: Abstracts to be submitted to Minitrack Chairsfor guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 15, 2004: Authors submit full manuscripts to Minitrack Chairs. Contact the chairs in advance for specific submission instructions. August 15, 2004: Minitrack Chairs send notices of accepted manuscripts to Authors. (Note: Acceptance may be conditional; revisions may be requested for final acceptance of paper.) October 1, 2004: Deadline for Authors to submit the final version of their accepted papers electronically for publication. At least one author of each paper must have registered to attend the conference by this date. December 10, 2004: All conference registrations and payments are due. On site registration fee applies after this date. No refunds after this date. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn