Posted by n.chuehong on 13 June 2012 - 4:54pm

Published on behalf of the Digital Research 2012 organisers, who include the SSI's David De Roure and Simon Hettrick.

This year's Digital Research Conference (formally the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting) is being held in St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2012.

Digital Research practice, tools and infrastructures have been embraced by researchers across all disciplines. In sciences and humanities, from big data analytics to citizen scholarship, we are harnessing our new digital capabilities ranging from the Web and new devices to High Performance
Computing and the Cloud. While adoption and investment grow the community continues to innovate. The goal of the Digital Research 2012 Conference is to showcase today's digital research practice and innovation, and to set an influential agenda for tomorrow.

This year we are inviting main conference contributions under the themes of Digital Research Futures and Digital Research Innovation Showcase, in addition to collocated workshops and events which are also encouraged to pursue these themes.

Call for Conference Contributions: Digital Research Futures

This year's conference theme is the Future of Digital Research. We invite short papers, stories and videos giving your glimpse of "Digital Research in the Future" in (and between) any disciplines. We encourage originality and forward-thinking, and there will be awards for the best-rated submissions.

These glimpses of our Digital Research Future may be based on your current research and should draw on your insights and vision. Short papers set out your view on the evolution of some aspect of the digital research ecosystem, interpreted broadly to include digital research applications, tools, practice, e-Infrastructure, research environment, interdisciplinary research (e.g. Digital Humanities, Social Informatics), digital curation, open data and software, automation, standards, long tail and citizen science, knowledge infrastructure, community capability, research communication, learning, training, design methods and ethics.

Stories and videos could address the above with alternative narratives like "a day in the life" of a researcher or mock-up media coverage. Your submission should include a rationale for your vision, and include references, to assist with peer review. Creativity is definitely encouraged.

In all cases we invite submissions of a short paper of up to four pages including figures and references. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their original contribution to the Digital Research agenda. Position papers and stories may be accepted either for oral or poster presentation at the conference. All accepted papers will be made available in the online conference proceedings.

Call for Conference Contributions: Digital Research Innovation Showcase

In addition to the "Digital Research Futures" theme, the conference will be showcasing the state of the art in Digital Research. We invite short papers presenting your Digital Research project, emphasising innovative Digital Research practice, tools, resources and outcomes. Please indicate your preferred presentation format: oral, poster, demo or video.

The submission format is an extended abstract of three pages of text including figures and references. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their original contribution to the state of the art. Submissions for oral presentation may be accepted instead for poster presentation. All accepted abstracts will be made available in the online conference proceedings.

Please submit your short papers and abstracts via EasyChair by 18th July 2012 - see the website http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk for further instructions and also for workshop and contact information. We look forward to seeing you at Digital Research 2012 in September.