Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information
Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content
Guest Editor
Dion H. Goh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Web has evolved from a unidirectional information repository where access to information by user is the main focus, to a platform for collaboration in which content is generated and shared among users. Also popularly known as Web 2.0, examples of such applications include blogs, wikis, social networking, media sharing and social tagging, among many others. As this new avenue for content-generation becomes increasingly popular, the resulting information explosion requires new techniques and applications to manage, search and access such content.
The special issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) aims to explore how digital libraries can leverage on the various technologies underlying user-generated content to provide innovative and useful services for their users. Since such technologies are potentially disruptive, the special issue will also investigate how support for user-generated content would impact digital libraries, their administrators, users and other stakeholders.
| Submission deadline | 7 April 2008 |
| Notification of acceptance | 26 May 2008 |
| Submission of final version | 21 July 2008 |
| Publication | Before year end 2008 |
Enquiries should be sent to the guest editor, Dion Goh, at ashlgoh@ntu.edu.sg.
Submission of papers will be done electronically at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/author/submit. In the keywords field of the submission system, please indicate that the paper is to be considered for the special issue on Digital Libraries and User-Generated Content.
Guidelines for paper preparation and submission instructions may be found at: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/about/submissions.
More information about JoDI may be obtained from: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi.