Call for papers to DOCAM ¹03 The Document Academy presents: DOCAM ¹03 on: Document - a useful concept ? - a useful tool ? An International Conference on Document Research and Development in Sciences, Arts and Business August 13-15th, 2003 University of California, Berkeley DOCAM ¹03 is the first annual meeting of The Document Academy, a collaborative project of The Department of Documentation Science, University of Tromsoe, Norway and The School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley. The aim of The Document Academy is to create a space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. As a starting point everything produced by a human being using some instruments in certain ways, can be considered as a document. It includes writing, music, images, architecture. clothes, etc. That means that the Academy is open for scholars, artists, businessmen, students and many other kind of people attempting to do the very best at the same time as one is still making "work in progress". Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document research and development are invited to submit 500 words proposals for papers or other kinds of presentation for seminars and workshops at DOCAM ¹03 by 3rd February 2003 We welcome especially proposals on the following themes : - Document theory - Document history - Forms of documentation ­ Scientific documentation / Health documentation / Artistic documentation / Technical documentation /Commercial documentation - Tools and media for production, use and organisation of document 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 at latest February 3rd 2003 Accepted contributions notified 3rd March 2003 Further documentation will be available on and added continously to the web site of The Document Academy http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ Any questions concerning DOCAM¹03 and The Document Academy can be addressed to the chair of the Document Academy, Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Head of Department, Department of Documentation Science HUM-FAK /University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no