NEW EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS TO DOCAM '04 submission deadline August 1, 2004 The Document Academy presents: DOCAM '04 on: Document as Concept - Tool - Perspective The Second International Conference on Document Research and Development in Sciences, Arts and Business October 22-24, 2004 University of California, Berkeley DOCAM '04 is the second annual meeting of The Document Academy, an international network chaired and cosponsored by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsoe, Norway and The School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley. The aim of The Document Academy is to create a global space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. That means that the Academy is open for scholars, artists, businessmen, students and many other kinds of people attempting to do the very best at the same time as one is still making "work in progress". The DOCAM-meetings are intended to be events where people interested in a document approach can meet, present, and discuss research, ideas, experiments etc. in a relatively open-ended athmosphere. This means that the presentations will be kept short and time for discussion will be given priority. As key-note speaker this year we have the pleasure of presenting our French partner: Jean-Michel Salaün, ENSSIB - RTP-DOC Prof. Salaün is professor at L' Ecole nationale des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB - http://www.enssib.fr). In 2000-2003 he was the head of the «Institut des sciences du document numérique» (ISDN) (2000-2003), a network of 17 labs in Rhône-Alpes district (http://isdn.enssib.fr), and he is now the chief manager of the «Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire 33», "Documents et contenu : création, indexation, navigation" (2002 - ), a national network in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, CNRS (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr). Call for papers to DOCAM '04 The main goal for DOCAM '04 is to develop a space and offer time for interdisciplinary and international research cooperation on Document Research and Development. The multidisciplinary approach in the project enables us to study the problem of documents from different perspectives, both theoretical and experimental. The international environment enables presentation and exchange of different scientific traditions as well as different social and cultural experiences with documents. Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners around the world working with document research and development are invited to submit 500 words proposals for papers, posters or demonstrations for seminars and workshops at DOCAM '04 by May 1st 2004. Background for the theme "Document as concept - tool - perspective" The main agenda DOCAM '04 is to consider if and how a document approach can be useful as an analytical concept, as a practical tool in society and a relevant perspective on processes in society today. The concept of document is used as an analytical category almost only in library and information science, textual criticism and computer science. Compared to discussions on concepts like sign, text, medium and genre, relatively little theoretical work has been done on the concept of document. One of the reasons may be the dominant understanding of a document as a very material object and thus of little interest for humanists interested in the meaning of human expressions. This situation might change due to the development of digital media environments. One needs still to delimit meaningful totalities in the digital space and since they are all digital products, one can draw on the tradition in computer science and conceive them as documents and use the concept of document as an analytical category like concepts as text, media and genre. Since the new media do have a significant impact on the meaning of document, you have to develop new methods in order to analyze both old and new kinds of documents and focus on the complex relationship between the material, social and mental aspects of documents. We therefore especially welcome proposals on the following themes: Documents in different convergent media environments (e.g. analogue - digital environments, arts, health care, mass media, business etc.) Document types (audio, visual, verbal, multimedial, performative) Concepts (document, comparison of the concept of document with other concepts (sign, text, discourse, representation etc.)) Methods (hermeneutics, experiments) Technology (analogue and digital instruments, experimental instruments) Proposals should include: - a short description of the work to be presented, - name of all contributors, - address, including email contacts and URL, - a list of up to 5 keywords. Abstract should be submitted electronically in Word or RTF format to niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no on August 1st 2004 at the latest. Accepted contributions notified September 1st 2004. Full version should be delivered in RTF or PDF format on October 15 2004. Further details concerning program, registration, accomodation etc. will be available on and added continously to the website of The Document Academy, http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/. Any questions concerning DOCAM'04 and The Document Academy can be addressed to the chair of the Document Academy, Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Chair of program in Documentation Studies HUM-FAK /University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no -- Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Koordinator for dokumentasjonsvitenskap / Chair of Documentation Science Program Institute of Culture and Literature HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/students/niels.lund/index.html