[IRTalk] SciDataCon 2018 - Call for individual papers & posters - Closing Date: 31 May 2018

[African Science]

*The **deadline** to submit abstracts for papers and posters for **SciDataCon
2018**, part of International Data Week, 4-8 November 2018, Gaborone,
Botswana is **31 May 2018**.*



*Call for Papers and Posters*

*https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers
<https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/> *




*Submit Abstracts for Papers and Posters
**https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/>*



*Provisionally Accepted Sessions*
*https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/>*



*Themes and Scope of SciDataCon*
  *https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/>*



*Call for Papers*

For SciDataCon we request that proposals should be submitted for research
papers, practice papers, lightning talks and panel contributions:

*https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/>*



*About the Sessions*

In some cases, session organisers will be inviting proposals, but please
note that you may submit a proposal to any accepted session if you think
your proposal is a good fit with that session topic.



*Abstracts must be submitted to an accepted session or to the General
Submission session.* You may consult the descriptions of accepted sessions
at *https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/>*



When submitting your abstract at *https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/>* you will need to select the
appropriate session.



Abstracts submitted to specific sessions will be reviewed for their
individual quality and according to their appropriateness for that session.
Abstracts submitted to the General Submission option will be reviewed for
individual quality and, if accepted, will be assigned to an accepted
session or grouped into thematic sessions.



*Author Guidelines*

Accepted abstracts will be available from the conference website and will
form a persistent collection, so please consider the following
recommendations carefully:



o    Length: The proposal for a research paper should be 800-1600 words and
for a practice paper 600-1000 words.  For lightning talks or panel
interventions 300-600 words are sufficient.  These are guides and please
use your judgement.  We strongly discourage proposals of more than 1600
words.

o    Summary: The submission must include a summary.  The summary should be
brief - 100-250 words, and certainly no more than 250 words.



*Call for Posters*

Posters will be an important feature of SciDataCon 2018. The organisers
will endeavour to ensure that all poster presenters have an opportunity to
give a lightning talk as well as participating in the poster reception.
Posters can often be a more effective way of communicating key technical
features of a paper and providing a visual summary that really engages the
viewer.



*About the Sessions*

*Abstracts must be submitted to an accepted session or to the General
Submission session.* You may consult the descriptions of accepted sessions
at *https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/>*



When submitting your abstract at *https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit/>* you will need to select the
appropriate session.



*Author Guidelines*

·         Length: A Poster Abstract should be 800-1600 words and no more
than 1600 words in length.

·         Summary: Submission must include a summary.  The summary should
be brief - 100-250 words, and certainly no more than 250 words.

·         Subject: Describe the subject of the proposed poster in as much
detail as possible. Describe the structure of the poster. Above all, let us
know:



o    why will this be an interesting feature of the conference?

o    why is it particularly suited to a poster and/or demo session?

o    why the poster or demo will catch delegates' attention and why will
they stop and listen to you?



Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org



E-Mail: asha at codata.org

Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96

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