[Community] Fwd: User Forum & Final Event - Call for Paper

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Date: 7 December 2016 at 22:09
Subject: User Forum & Final Event - Call for Paper
To: kodion at gmail.com

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* Dec 2016*

Dear colleague,

*The “User Forum & Final Event” of the EU-funded Sci-GaIA project
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will
be held on March, 23-24, 2017 at the CSIR International Convention Centre
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(CICC),
Pretoria, South Africa. The event will be hosted by the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a member of the Sci-GaIA
consortium.*

*Goal and organisation*

The Sci-GaIA “User Forum & Final Event” is organised in two consecutive
days. The first day will be devoted to a scientific workshop especially
targeting the users and early adopters of the Sci-GaIA Open Science Platform
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while
the second day will aim at presenting the final outcomes of the Sci-GaIA
project and discussing the present and the future of
e-Infrastructure(1) and Open Science(2) in Africa. Speakers of the first
day will be selected through a peer review process while those of the
second day will be invited.

*Topics*

The topics of the Sci-GaIA “User Forum & Final Event” include, but are not
limited to:

• E-Science(3) (use cases and applications);

• Open Science (use cases and applications);

• Open Access (services and/or best practices);

• Open Data (services and/or best practices);

• Open Education and Open Educational Resources (services and/or best
practices);

• E-Infrastructure and its services (Education & Research Networks,
Certification Authorities, Identity Federations, Digital Repositories,
Science Gateways(4), etc.);

• Grid and Cloud Computing based services and applications;

• High Throughput and High Performance Computing based services and
applications;

• Cases studies of the new and emerging Communities of Practice supported
by the Sci-GaIA project(5).

*Instructions to authors*

Scientists, researchers and educators are invited to submit papers related
to at least one of the topics listed above to be presented at  first in the
User Forum.. All papers should be written in English using either this MS
Word template
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and
their length should be comprised between 4 and 8 pages. During the submission
phase
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authors should also include a separate and self-consistent abstract
containing no more than 500 characters (including spaces). Authors of
accepted papers are expected to also attend the Final Event on the second
day.

Accepted papers will be published as Open Access articles with unique
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). Additionally, authors of selected
accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special
issue of a scientific journal.

*Important dates*

• Paper submission deadline to the User Forum: *February, 12, 2017*

• Acceptance/rejection notification: February, 20, 2017

• Camera ready papers: March, 6, 2017

• Registration deadline: March, 20, 2017

*Participation grants*

The participation to the Sci-GaIA “User Forum and Final Event
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is free of charge but interested people are invited to register at their
earliest convenience to let the local organisers better define the
logistics of the event. Some participation grants, which will cover travel
and accommodation, will be made available. Grantees will be selected by the
Organisation and the Programme  Committees among the registrants and they
will be notified in due time before the start of the event.

Follow the updates on the Sci-GaIA "User Forum & Final Event" on this page
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click on the links below to submit a paper and/or to register.

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 Best regards,

The Sci-GaIA Partnership

*References*

(1) e-Infrastructure refers to a *"combination and interworking of
digitally-based technology (hardware and software), resources (data,
services, digital libraries), communications (protocols, access rights and
networks), and the people and organisational structures needed to support
modern, internationally leading collaborative research be in the arts and
humanities or the sciences".* [ref.
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(2) *“Open science is a means and not an end in itself and it is much more
than just open access to publications or data; it includes many aspects and
stages of research processes thus enabling full reproducibility and
re-usability of scientific results.”*

(3) The term was created by John Taylor, the Director General of the United
Kingdom's Office of Science and Technology in 1999 and was used to describe
a large funding initiative starting in November 2000. E-science has been
more broadly interpreted since then, as*"the application of computer
technology to the undertaking of modern scientific investigation, including
the preparation, experimentation, data collection, results dissemination,
and long-term storage and accessibility of all materials generated through
the scientific process. These may include data modelling and analysis,
electronic/digitized laboratory notebooks, raw and fitted data sets,
manuscript production and draft versions, pre-prints, and print and/or
electronic publications"**.*

(4) A Science Gateway (also known as Virtual Research Environment
or Virtual Laboratory) is a *"community-development set of tools,
applications, and data that is integrated via a portal or a suite of
applications, usually in a graphical user interface, that is further
customized to meet the needs of a specific community“.* [TeraGrid/XSEDE]

(5) http://www.sci-gaia.eu/project-activities/community/
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