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IMCW2013:&#160;The &#8220;4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World&#8221; will take place at the Strand Hotel (http://www.strandhotellimerick.ie/) in Limerick, Ireland, from September 4-6, 2013.PresentationCloud computing&#160;has transformed the ways in which both individuals and enterprises make use of&#160;&#160;IT services and network infrastructure within the last decade.&#160;&#160;Everything including infrastructure, platforms, applications, software, data, and communication is now seen &#8220;as a service&#8221;.&#160;&#160;Information, the life-blood of scientific progress, economic growth and social development, is mostly produced, disseminated, used, shared and re-used in digital formats nowadays.&#160;&#160;Science, industry and business enterprises tend to become &#8220;information&#8221; enterprises in that even &#8220;money&#8221; as matter gets converted to &#8220;bits&#8221; so as to be stored digitally in computers and transmitted as &#8220;information&#8221; over the network.&#160;&#160;Enterprises&#160;have&#160;tended to spend well over 70% of their time and money to support the information technologies (IT) and network infrastructure. Now they embrace&#160;cloud-based services&#160;to manage information more efficiently and effectively. As information managers we must now look&#160;Beyond the Cloud, collaborate in order to innovate and inspire while trying to predict what the future holds.Using cloud-based services increases efficiency, provides cost savings, and enables &#8220;collective intelligence&#8221; to flourish.&#160; Not-for-profit memory instutions such as libraries, archives, and museums are also making use of cloud-based services.&#160; To name a few, OCLC&#8217;s WorldCat, HathiTrust, OAISTER, and Europeana are providing web scale discovery services and aggregated data repositories accessible through the Net.&#160; Yet, information organizations and memory institutions should go beyond the cloud-based services to reap the full benefits of the digital age.MAIN THEME&#8220;Beyond the Cloud: Information&#8230;Innovation&#8230;Collaboration&#8230;&#8221; being the main theme of the Symposium,&#160;IMCW2013&#160;aims to bring together information professionals, computer and information scientists, business people and engineers to discuss the implications of cloud computing on information management and to contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative information services beyond the cloud.&#160;As organizers, we thought this is an opportune time for&#160;IMCW2013&#160;to review the challenges for information organizations, libraries, archives and museums providing information services in the digital age.&#160; Such challenges range from developing useful services and workflows embedded in users&#8217; work and study environments to benefitting from economies of scale by pooling resources, eliminating redundancies and innovating through collaboration.CONTRIBUTIONSContributions can be theoretical as well as technical and practical.&#160; Informative case studies are also welcome.&#160; The audience will be information professionals, librarians, archivists, computer and information scientists, and business people, among others.We accept&#160;extended abstracts&#160;(no less than 750 words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports and posters on all aspects of innovative and collaborative information management. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome.&#160; Extended abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the&#160;Conference Management Software&#160;(openconf)&#160;by March 4, 2013.We also accept proposals to organize workshops, panel sessions and short visual presentations (&#8220;pecha kucha&#8221;).&#160; Proposals should include a title, a short abstract, proposal type (eg, workshop), the name and contact information of the convener (for sessions and pecha kucha) and be addressed to&#160;imcw@bilgiyonetimi.net&#160;by&#160;March 4, 2013.Accepted extended abstracts and proposals will appear in the &#8220;Book of Abstracts&#8221; to be published prior to the Symposium.Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as full papers by May 27, 2013.&#160; A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series and the Symposium web site (decision pending).&#160; Papers that appear in Springer&#8217;s CCIS series are indexed in Thomson Reuter&#8217;s&#160;Conference Proceedings Citation Index.MAIN TOPICSMain topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following:Challenges of Information Management in the Digital AgeDeveloping digital information servicesSemantic information managementInformation management in the cloudDistributed collection management and licensingInnovative information managementCollaborative information managementInfrastructures and networks for information managementSystems, tools and services for information managementVirtual research environments and information managementCommunity of practicesData ownershipData securityLong-term stability of dataPrivacyEconomies of scaleCloud-based Information ServicesWeb-based servicesData-centric servicesServices lifecycle managementInformation management in the cloudWeb scale information discovery through the cloudData aggregation and data repositories in the cloudInnovative uses of cloud-based information servicesInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Information ManagementPlatforms as a Service (PaaS) for Information ManagementApplications as a Service (AaaS) for Information ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS) for Information ManagementStorage as a Service (SaaS) for Information ManagementEverything as a Service (EaaS) for Information ManagementInformation Discovery, Organization, and Retrieval Beyond the CloudInformation discovery and identificationInformation representationInformation search, indexing and retrievalCuration, preservation and long-term accessMobile information retrievalMetadata harvestingMetadata extractionMetadata managementMetadata interoperability and standardsOntology developmentOntology mappingMining large data setsInformation Architecture for Cloud-based Information Services&#160;Information architecture and web design for the cloudGrid Networks, services and applicationsService Oriented ArchitectureDesigning usable cloud servicesInformation usabilityInteraction design for cloud servicesInformation visualization toolsScholarly Publishing, Open Access and Institutional Repositories&#160;Scholarly publishing processOpen accessInstitutional repositories beyond the cloudDigital libraries beyond the cloudData warehouses and federated databases beyond the cloudE-publishingOpen scienceOpen access to publicly funded scientific informationEuropean Infrastructure for e-Science Digital Repositories (e-SciDR)Digital Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage Beyond the CloudDigitization of scientific and cultural heritageDigital science museums and digital exhibitionsDigitization of 2-D and 3-D scientific and cultural heritage objectsDigital re-discovery of cultureThe European Digital Library, Europeana, beyond the cloudPermanent archiving of digital scientific and cultural heritage beyond the cloudSocial and Cultural Issues Beyond the CloudDigital information policiesIntellectual property rightsDigital rights managementLegal and cultural issuesValue of information (VOI)Information quality standardsEducation for Information Management&#160;Blended librarianshipCloud librarianshipE-science librarianshipData curation educationInformation stewardshipBiomedical informaticsEnvironmental informaticsBioinformaticsDigital humanities, arts and e-social sciencesSupport services for researchers, students and general publicLife-long learningInformation literacyORGANIZERSHacettepe University&#160;Department of Information Management, TurkeyLimerick Institute of Technology, IrelandORGANIZING COMMITTEEYaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair)Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Jerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)Padraig Kirby (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)Serap Kurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey)M&#237;che&#225;l Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland)Or&#231;un Madran (Atılım University, Turkey)PROGRAMME COMMITTEESerap Kurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Chair)Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey)&#193;gnes Hajdu Bar&#225;t (University of Szeged, Hungary)Carla Basili (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)Albert K. Boekhorst (The Netherlands)Joumana Boustany (Paris Descartes University, France)Fazlı Can (Bilkent University, Turkey)Jerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)John Crawford (Independent Information Professional)G&#252;l&#231;in Cribb (Singapore Management University, Singapore)K&#252;rşat &#199;ağıltay (METU, Turkey)Armando Malheiro da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta)Dan Dorner (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)Susana Finquelievich (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)Maria Francisca Abad Garc&#237;a (Valencia University, Spain)Ayşe G&#246;ker (City University London, UK)Chris Hagar (San Jose State University, USA)Suliman Hawamdeh (University of North Texas, USA)Aleksandra Horvat (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Ian M. Johnson (The Robert Gordon University, UK)Leif Kajberg (Independent Researcher/Adviser, Denmark)Rajkumar Kannan (BHC Autonomous, India)Padraig Kirby&#160;(Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)Tibor Koltay (Szent Istv&#225;n University, Hungary)Monika Krakowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)&#214;zg&#252;r K&#252;lc&#252; (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Willy van der Kwaak (The Hague University, The Netherlands)Jes&#250;s Lau (Veracruzana University, Mexico)Aira Lepik (Tallinn University, Estonia)M&#237;che&#225;l Mac an Airchinnigh (University of Dublin, Trinity College,&#160;Republic of Ireland)Or&#231;un Madran (Atılım University, Turkey)Jeppe Nicolaisen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)İnci &#214;nal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Gloria Ponjuan (University of Havana, Cuba)Niels Ole Pors (IVA, Denmark)Maria Pr&#243;chnicka (Jagiellonian University, Poland)John Regazzi (Long Island University, USA)Angela Repanovici (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)Fernanda Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal)Jurgita Rudzioniene (Vilnius&#160;University, Lithuania)Jordan M. Scepanski (Jordan Wells Associates, USA)Ren&#233; Schneider (Haute Ecole de Gestion, Switzerland)Sonja &#352;piranec (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma, Italy)Tania&#160;Yordanova Todorova (State University, Bulgaria)Egbert J. Sanchez Vanderkast (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)İrem Soydal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Yaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Nazan &#214;zen&#231; U&#231;ak (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Peter Underwood (University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa)Yurdag&#252;l &#220;nal (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Sheila Webber (University of Sheffield, UK)Sirje Virkus (Tallinn University, Estonia)B&#252;lent Yılmaz (Hacettepe University, Turkey)Daniela Živković (University of Zagreb, Croatia)LOCAL COMMITTEEJerald Cavanagh (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) (Co-chair)Padraig Kirby (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) (Co-chair)