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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">CALL FOR PAPERS </font><font face="Arial,Bold">DOCAM2015</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Jointly hosted by UTS and Charles Sturt University (CSU) </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">July 20-22, 2015 </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">In 2015 the Document Academy will come together under the theme </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">of “Documents Unbounded”
and is calling for submissions that </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">examine the challenges ahead, as our understanding of data, documents, records, artefacts, evidence and memory form in the continuously changing landscape
of new media and communications. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">Important dates </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Extended abstracts by: </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px">15 December 2014</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Notification of acceptance by: </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px">15 February 2015</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Conference dates:</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px"> 20-22
July 2015</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">Background </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">DOCAM2015 is the 12th annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists, and professionals in various fields, who are
interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic and professional work. The annual conference fosters a multidisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing
on scholarship, traditions, and experiences from the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and natural science, and from diverse fields, such as information, media, museum, archives, culture and science studies. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">Research presentations </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">The DOCAM2015 Program Committee especially encourages completed research, research-in-progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case
studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">conference papers (extended abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion); </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">brief abstracts for poster display and presentation. </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">Proposal submissions </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations should be submitted through the DOCAM2015 EasyChair system located
at </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">The conference language is English. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Follow the submission template. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Papers </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">For papers include: </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">names and contact information for all contributors; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">title of paper; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">select the category type extended abstract; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">3 to 5 keywords. </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Do not complete the abstract box available in the EasyChair template; instead</span></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">upload your extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation;</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">All abstracts should be submitted in Word document format (.doc .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer reviewed, please ensure that author
names and affiliations do not appear on the submitted Word document. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Posters </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">For posters include: </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">names and contact information for all contributors; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">title of poster presentation; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">an abstract or brief description of up to 250 words in the text box available in the template for abstracts; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">3 to 5 keywords; </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Italic" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Submissions for posters do not require upload of any Word documents. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">All proposals should also include a brief statement providing: </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">- </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software,
video, performance, or other forms of demonstration); </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">- </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">preferred size of poster presentation; </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">- </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">any special equipment needs. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">Publication of Conference proceedings</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer-reviewed volume, </span></font><font face="Arial,Italic" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Proceedings
from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy </span></font><a href="http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px">http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam</span></font></a><font face="Arial,Italic" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">​</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial,Bold">More Information </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">DOCAM2015 website: </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">http://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/conferences-and-
seminars/documents-unbounded </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">DOCAM2015 Facebook page: </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">https://www.facebook.com/docam2015 </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">DOCAM2015
Twitter account: </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">https://twitter.com/docam2015</span></font></div>
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<div>Professor emeritus, documentation studies, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway</div>
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