2019 Annual Meeting^

Of Documents and Data
Ingémédia Department, University of Toulon, France
June 12–14, 2019

Program

Registration and Planning Your Visit^

Registration Link^

Registration for DOCAM 2019 is now open. Registration includes coffee breaks, lunches and a gala dinner.

Meeting Venue^

UFR Ingémédia
Campus Porte d’Italie - Toulon
70, Avenue Roger Devoucoux
83000 Toulon

Accommodations^

A list of recommended hotels in Toulon is presented here, but participants are free to make other arrangements and choose other hotels if they so please.

Hôtel ibis Styles Toulon Centre Port
Place Besagne, 83000 Toulon

Hôtel ibis budget Toulon Centre
200, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 83000 TOULON

Grand Hôtel Dauphiné
10 Rue Berthelot, 83000 Toulon

Hôtel Little Palace
6 Rue Berthelot, 83000 Toulon

Hôtel Amirauté
4 Rue Adolphe Guiol, 83000 Toulon

Grand Hôtel de la Gare
14 Boulevard de Tessé, 83000 Toulon

Tourist Information^

Information on things to do or see in the area can be found on Toulon’s tourism webpage.

Overview^

DOCAM 2019 is the 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 meeting 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. The Document Academy originated as a co-sponsored effort by the Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway, and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. The first DOCAM conference took place in Berkeley in 2003 and since then has toured around to Madison, Wisconsin; Denton, Texas; Växjö, Sweden; London, Ontario; Tromsø, Norway; Kent, Ohio; Sydney, Australia; Bloomington, Indiana; Turin, Italy; and now Toulon.

The 2019 conference is hosted by the Ingémédia Department of the University of Toulon, France.

Theme: Documents in the data era: From multimedia, to augmented, hyper, enriched, and fragmented... what else?

Conference co-chairs: Fidelia Ibekwe, Kiersten F. Latham and Michel Durampart

Keynote speakers:

A Special Call for Creative Works^

The Document Academy celebrates inquiry into documents and documentation of all kinds. Many participants have presented academic research, but the Document Academy also strives to be open to artistic and creative inquiry, including those who don't consider their work to be "research."

To that end, we would like to especially welcome submissions of creative work for the 2019 annual meeting. We welcome practice-led research, where art and creativity is a mode of inquiry and way of knowing in itself, as well as research that uses creative methods to communicate findings from other research traditions. For example, you could write a scholarly paper but present it in a more dialogic, creative, dramatic, etc., way than a typical "conference presentation."

Depending on their nature, creative works may be presented in plenary sessions alongside scholarly papers, or they may be persistent displays in common areas throughout the meeting. We welcome any and all such submissions.

With this call, we hope to engage new participants in the Document Academy, such as artists and practitioners of all kinds. We also hope to stimulate our longtime participants to try new things and experiment with new modes of discussion.

As examples of what we hope to see submitted, see:

Call for Proposals^

PDF version of this Call for Proposals

Since the 1950s, the world has been witnessing an accelerated pace in the invention and dissemination Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (the Internet, the web, social media and mobile telecommunication) which have also accelerated the virtualisation of forms of documents. Each invention of ICTs has been accompanied by an ominous prognosis about the imminent demise of documents, still perceived by many as being only on hard copy materials and mostly made of texts. Yet, for knowledge and information to be useful to society (and not only to individuals), they need to be fixed on materials that can be shared. Documents are therefore the “tangible” or “informed” (as in “put into form”) manifestation of information and knowledge, whether it is in hard copy or in digital form, whether it is made up of a snippet of text as in tweets, a Facebook post, a birth or death record, an invoice of a transaction completed online, an email, a newspaper article, a video file posted online, or a podcast of a program.

The 2019 edition of DOCAM wishes to investigate the road that documents have travelled in the face of the increasing virtualisation of all its material media and in particular in the face of a world in the grip of data-ism. For ultimately, what are big data, if not a vast ensemble of documents? The theme of this year’s meeting invites exploration of the ways in which documents have resisted and evolved to espouse the form imposed by each “new ICT” by successively being “multi-media”, “hyper”, “augmented”, “enriched”, or “fragmented”. Indeed, the big data era places important documentary burdens on us all, since no one person can now mentally assimilate the abundant information necessary to accomplish a task. Big data therefore makes it even more imperative to be constantly surrounded by multimedia and multiformat “documents” that we constantly browse, while in repose, more often in movement, in order to accomplish a task (prepare a lecture, respond to a query, fill in a form online, write a research paper, simply to fill in gaps of knowledge on a favourite topic, etc).

The 2019 edition of DOCAM seeks submissions pertaining to the situation of documents in the data and web era. Papers can deal with one of the following specific topics:

As always, proposals are also accepted outside of the annual theme.

Submission Formats^

The DOCAM 2019 Program Committee welcomes 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:

  1. Conference papers
  2. Posters
  3. Creative works and activities

For papers include:

  1. Names and contact information for all contributors (on a separate page);
  2. Title of paper;
  3. 3 to 5 keywords;
  4. Extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation;

For posters and other creative works include:

  1. Names and contact information for all contributors;
  2. Title of poster presentation;
  3. An abstract or brief description of up to 250 words;
  4. 3 to 5 keywords.

All proposals should also include a brief statement providing:

All abstracts should be submitted as Word document (.doc, .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations appear on a separate page in the Word document.

Abstracts should be sent to fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan{at}univ-amu.fr

Conference Language^

The main conference language is English; however, submissions can be accepted in French, provided they are accompanied by an abstract in English.

Please follow the submission template above.

Important Dates^

Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations and creative works should be sent by 15th March 2019.

Publication of Conference proceedings Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer- reviewed volume, Proceedings from the Document Academy after the conference. The deadline for paper submission is 30th August 2019.

Program Committee^

Organizers:

Institutional Partners: