Please contact the editor Lauren Coats if you have materials for or questions about submitting to <em>Archive Journal</em>: <a href="mailto:contact@archivejournal.net">contact@archivejournal.net</a>.

We are now accepting proposals for Issue 3, a special issue on data curation.  Details and instructions below in the CFP, also available as a pdf.

<strong>Call for Proposals for <em>Archive Journal</em> Special Issue</strong>

The editorial board of <em>Archive Journal</em> is pleased to announce an upcoming issue, “Curating the Digital,  Curating the Analog,” which will explore how data curation shapes and  informs library, archival, scholarly, and pedagogical practices.

Understood  as the “active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle of  interest and usefulness to scholarly and educational activities” (Data  Curation Education Program, <a href="http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/CollMeta/dcep.html">http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/CollMeta/dcep.html</a>),  data curation encompasses a range of activities: selection and  appraisal, description and representation, preservation, and the work of  making a resource usable and repurposable. How  we store, represent, and provide access to data affects not only those  in the world of libraries, archives, and museums, but also scholars,  faculty, students, and artists across the disciplines. What role does  data play in fields such as the digital humanities, or media studies?  How does data curation involve or affect scholarly production, or  approaches to pedagogy?

Guest  editors, Patricia Hswe and Erin O’Meara, invite submissions on data  curation that address new practitioner roles, new types of scholarship,  new storage needs, and new stories that are fast emerging. Possible  topics for contributions include - but are not limited to - the  following:
<ul>
	<li>Data and archives</li>
	<li>Data curation practices and challenges</li>
	<li>Curation of born-digital materials</li>
	<li>Humanities data curation issues and practices (including management of data for humanities projects)</li>
	<li>Data curation program development</li>
	<li>Legacy data</li>
	<li>Digital forensics</li>
	<li>Curating a mixed media collection (e.g., print and digital)</li>
	<li>Donors and digital donations</li>
	<li>Ethnographic methods and data curation</li>
	<li>Creator attitudes toward, or perceptions of, data curation</li>
	<li>New roles for librarians, archivists, curators, and researchers</li>
	<li>Description methods and data models (e.g., metadata, finding aids, ontologies, etc.)</li>
	<li>Tools, applications, platforms</li>
</ul>
We  invite proposals for contributions of 5000-7000 words; shorter essays  (2000-4000 words) about new tools or services are also welcome. We  encourage proposals that include multimedia components (video, image, or  sounds in standard formats), as well as multi-modal or experimental  formats; please email the editors with any questions about submissions  in alternative formats. An open access, peer-reviewed journal, <em>Archive Journal</em> seeks content that speaks to its diverse audience of librarians, scholars, archivists, and technologists (<a href="http://archivejournal.net/journal/home/about/">http://archivejournal.net/journal/home/about/</a>).

Authors interested in submitting to this special issue of <em>Archive Journal</em> should send a 250-word abstract about their contribution and a 1-page  CV to Patricia Hswe (Digital Collections Curator, Penn State University  Libraries) at <a href="mailto:patricia.hswe@gmail.com">patricia.hswe@gmail.com</a> and to Erin O’Meara (Archivist, Gates Archive) at <a href="mailto:omeara.erin@gmail.com">omeara.erin@gmail.com</a> by Monday, July 30.