[AISWorld] AMCIS 2012: Data and Information Quality of Unstructured Data (CFP)

[Irit Askira Gelman]

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 
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Track: DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY (SIGDQIQ)
 
Minitrack: DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA
 
 
         August 9-12, 2012, Seattle, Washington 
         http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/


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--- DESCRIPTION ---
Unstructured data include free-form text such as found in word processing documents, e-mail, Web pages, spreadsheets, and text files, as well as nontextual data—images, sound, video, and graphics. Estimates of the proportion of unstructured data in organizations are staggering—analysts estimate that 80 percent of the data are unstructured. Analysts have also observed that the major drivers for unstructured data growth are Microsoft Office, email attachments, and backup and archival, as well as the generation of multiple and distributed copies of data. In particular, the Web is a primary unstructured information source for nearly every knowledge worker.  Evidently, organizations that rely solely on structured, record-oriented data have incomplete information. 

In recent years, there is a growing interest in accessing unstructured data and utilizing them, often together with structured data. Applications vary from counter-terrorism and biomedical information extraction to business intelligence, customer relationship management, and more.  Although they have enormous potential for improving the completeness of information in particular and its quality in general, unstructured data introduce numerous new challenges for data and information quality research. 

We welcome papers that address technical, managerial, and/or societal data quality challenges or solutions for fulfilling the potential of unstructured data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following list:

--	Data quality on the Web 
--	Business intelligence with structured and unstructured data
--	Social aspects of data quality  
--	Integration of structured and unstructured data
--	Reconciliation of comparable sources
--	Scalability and scalable solutions
--	Reusing and repurposing unstructured data 
--	Governance of unstructured data 
--	Cost and benefit assessments 
--	Quality assessment methods and cleansing of complex data

 

 --- JOURNAL PUBLICATION ---- 
Extended versions of outstanding papers will be fast-tracked to ACM JDIQ  (  http://jdiq.acm.org/  ). 
 
 

---- SUBMISSION PROCESS ---- 
All conference submissions must be submitted electronically through the AMCIS Manuscript Central submission system, at  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ after January 2, 2012.


 
---- IMPORTANT DATES ---- 
- First week of January, 2012:  Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
- March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone):  Deadline for paper submissions 
- April 2, 2012: Notification of acceptance 
- April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Final copy due 
- June 12, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Early Registration
- July 13, 2012: Deadline for making hotel room reservations
- July 24, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Regular Registration
- August 9-12, 2012: AMCIS Conference 

 
 
----- MINITRACK CHAIRS---- 
Irit Askira Gelman , DQIQ Research and Solutions , askirai at dqiqsolutions.com
Adir Even , Ben-Gurion University , adireven at bgu.ac.il   


 
---- FURTHER INFORMATION ---- 
AMCIS 2012 Conference Website: http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
Or contact Minitrack Chairs