CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM SIGDOC 2001

Communicating in the New Millennium

October 21 - 24, 2001
Santa Fe, NM
 

As we enter the new millennium, communication is becoming increasingly global.
English-only Web sites are fast becoming a limiting factor in the intellectual exchange
of ideas and information. Indeed, the printed document is giving way to electronic formats,
including non-textual and multimedia representations of critical information. The host city
for SIGDOC 2001 is Santa Fe, New Mexico's state capital and the oldest capital city in the
United States. With its rich cultural heritage, Santa Fe provides a fitting setting to
reflect on current issues and consider new challenges facing us in 2001 and beyond.

SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group for
Documentation, a professional organization dedicated to advanced topics in documentation
for and with computers. In addition to recognizing this year's Rigo and Diana award
recipients, the SIGDOC 2001 program will include invited talks, panel discussions, paper
presentations, posters and demonstrations, and exciting tutorials. New this year are
working sessions, which are extended discussions on a focused topic of interest to
conference attendees. SIGDOC 2001 will provide an opportunity for the exchange of
information related to exciting new research and experience reports in areas including
(but not limited to):

* National language support in all forms of documentation
* Migrating to multilingual Web sites
* Cultural issues for international audiences 
* Making documentation available in multiple formats
* Fundamental design principles that transcend the medium

Please submit a 500-word proposal describing your topic, objective, and presentation format
(paper, panel, poster or demonstration, tutorial, or working session). Include a short
biography with your proposal. Submissions may be in Adobe Acrobat PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word,
Postscript (interpretable by Ghostscript), or plain text format. Proposals must be sent as
an email attachment to stilley@cs.ucr.edu by 5pm Pacific time on Friday, April 6, 2001.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 22, 2001. Final versions of accepted
papers are due July 13, 2001. Proceedings will be published by the ACM. Selected papers will
be considered for publication in a special issue of the ACM Journal of Computer Documentation.


General Chair: Mary Jane Northrop, Enlighten, USA
Program Chair: Scott Tilley, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA

For More Information: www.cs.ucr.edu/~stilley/sigdoc2001


Program Committee:
  Cornelia Boldyreff, Univ. of Durham, UK
  Elliot Chikofsky, META Group, USA
  Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson Univ., USA
  Brad Mehlenbacher, NC State Univ., USA
  Michael Priestley, IBM Toronto, Canada
  Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA
  Kenny Wong, Univ. of Alberta, Canada