[Dspace-general] Call for papers: Special issue on metadata and institutional repositories: Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

[Mercer, Holly]

Please excuse cross postings.

Call for papers:  Special issue on metadata and institutional
repositories:  Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 

OVERVIEW
The general aim of this special issue of Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly is to report and assess the current status and trends in
describing the contents of institutional repositories, including
semantic and syntactic schemes, staffing, work flows, tools, training,
and resource issues. The guest co-editors seek to outline major
challenges and future perspectives related to the application,
harvesting, and interoperability of institutional repository metadata.
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly emphasizes full-length research
and review articles, descriptions of new programs and technology
relevant to cataloging and classification, considered speculative
articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future.
The guest editors seek to represent an international perspective.
Submissions by authors outside North America are encouraged.

TOPICS 
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: 
* Role of the cataloger/metadata librarian in institutional repositories
* Augmenting repository metadata through social tagging and community
annotation
* Metadata standards and profiles in open access repositories
* Authority control and author affiliation in IRs 
* Metadata issues affecting "findability" of repository content
* Integration of institutional repositories and the library catalog
* Metadata quality and harvested metadata
* Library-created vs. author-produced metadata 
* Metadata process and workflows in institutional repositories 
IMPORTANT DATES 
* Abstract (up to 500 words): 31 March 2008 
* Notification of appropriateness: 15 April 2008 
* Manuscript submission: 15 July 2008 
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 September 2008 
* Final revisions due: 1 November 2008 
* Tentative publication date: Spring, 2009 

SUBMISSION 
Submission of a manuscript to this journal represents a certification on
the part of the author(s) that it is an original work, and that neither
this manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere nor is
being considered for publication elsewhere. 
Potential contributors to the special issue are strongly encouraged to
submit an extended abstract for feedback as to the suitability of
proposed papers until 31 March 2008. 
Submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments to the following
addresses: 
hmercer[at]ku[dot]edu & m-babinec[at]northwestern[dot]edu 

GUEST EDITORS 
* Michael Babinec, Assistant Head Bibliographic Services Department,
Northwestern University 
* Holly Mercer, Interim Coordinator for Scholar Services, University of
Kansas 
"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is respected as an international
forum for discussion in all aspects of bibliographic organization. It
presents a balance between theoretical and applied articles in the field
of cataloging and classification, and considers the full spectrum of
creation, content, management, and use and usability of both
bibliographic records and catalogs. This includes the principles,
functions, and techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of
methods of subject analysis and classification; provision of access for
all formats of materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected
to the effective use of bibliographic records in modern society." More
information about Cataloging and Classification Quarterly can be found
online: http://www.catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com