CALL FOR PAPERS TO DOCAM '04 The Document Academy presents: DOCAM '04 on: Documents in Convergent Media Environments 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. This year we have the pleasure of presenting our French partner: Key-note speaker: Jean-Michel Salaün, ENSSIB - RTP-DOC 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). The main goal for DOCAM '04 is to develop a space and offer time for interdisciplinary and international research cooperation. The multidisciplinary approach in the project enables us to study the problem of converging media 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 convergent media environments. 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. We 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 May 1st 2004 at the latest. Accepted contributions notified June 1st 2004. Full version should be delivered in RTF or PDF format on October 15. 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/. -- 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