[ESIP-all] Fwd: request to distribute EIM 2011 call for papers

[Peter Fox]

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> From: EIM 2011 <eim2011 at easychair.org>
> Date: 10 March 2011 3:11:56 AM EST
> To: Peter Fox <pfox at ucar.edu>
> Subject: request to distribute EIM 2011 call for papers
> 
> Dear Peter,
> 
> The call for papers, posters, and birds-of-a-feather sessions for EIM 2011 is below.  Please help us 
> create an exciting and vibrant EIM conference by distributing the call widely within your communities, 
> and encouraging your colleagues to submit to EIM 2011 and attend the conference.  Key deadlines are 
> on the web site.
> 
> Thank you again for serving on the EIM 2011 Program Committee.
> 
> Matt Jones
> 
> 
> Call for Papers: Environmental Information Management (EIM) 2011 Conference
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Theme: Data Interoperability for Synthesis Science
> Dates: September 28-29, 2011 
> Location: Santa Barbara, CA
> Venue: Fess Parker Doubletree Resort 
> Web site: http://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011
> 
> Call for Papers, Posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> EIM provides a forum for information managers, scientists, and informatics researchers to present and 
> discuss advances in environmental information management, analysis, and modeling. EIM 2011 invites 
> original, short papers (6 pages) on environmental information management.  Papers that are accepted 
> after peer-review will be presented as 15 minute oral presentations. The conference will also include a 
> Poster session and Birds of a Feather sessions.  Submissions focusing on the conference theme ‘Data 
> Interoperability for Synthesis Science' are encouraged, and additional topics for submissions include 
> (but are not limited to):
> 
> * Sensor networking and deployment
> * Data acquisition, field-computing devices
> * Quality control processing
> * Data archival for long-term persistence
> * Metadata generation, storage, and management
> * Metadata-driven data analysis services
> * Data and metadata semantics, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies
> * Analysis and modeling frameworks
> * Data and metadata versioning and lineage
> * Visualization tools
> * Geospatial tools, applications, and standards
> * Sociology of collaboration and data sharing
> 
> Paper submissions are due May 27, 2011, and details are provided in the Call for Papers and Posters:
>    https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/eim-cfp
> 
> Poster abstracts are due July 31, 2011.
> 
> In addition, we are also calling for proposals for Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions to hold community-
> discussions, technology demonstrations, coding sessions, and other activities.  BoF session proposals 
> are due July 31, 2011, and details are provided in the call:
>    https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/eim-cfbof
> 
> For more information, please contact:
> Matthew Jones (NCEAS, University of California Santa Barbara) (jones at nceas.ucsb.edu)
> Corinna Gries (NTL LTER, University of Wisconsin) (cgries at wisc.edu)
> EIM 2011 Co-chairs