The Document Academy Announces DOCAM '08 March 28-29, 2008 At a new location: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Helen C. White Hall Madison, Wisconsin USA DOCAM '08 is the fifth Annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society. The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense, drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, Norway and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. Papers address the themes of document theory, document analysis, and document research (theory, methods, case studies) and cover domains as various as politics, art and visual realia, archives, museums, the World Wide Web, opera, finance, healthcare, and theatre! Selected papers will appear in a special issue of /Archival Science/. The conference will run from 9 AM Friday, March 28, to 5 PM Saturday, March 29, 2008. The keynote speaker is Michael Buckland, Professor Emeritus at the School of Information, University of California-Berkeley; Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (http://www.ecai.org/); and the 2008 NORSLIS (Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science) Visiting Professor. Conference registration is $100, $60 for full-time students; both fees include Friday night dinner. To register for the conference and obtain information about lodging, visit http://www.slis.wisc.edu/documentacademy.html. For more information contact the co-chairs of Docam 2008: Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 (608) 890-1334 fax: (608) 263-4849 casmith24@wisc.edu <mailto:casmith24@wisc.edu> Prof. Niels Windfeld Lund Documentation Studies University of Tromsø NO-9037 Tromsø, Norge Tel: +47- 776 46284 niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no <mailto:niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no> -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. --Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.]