These abstracts may address issues pertaining, but not limited to the following sub-themes:
Scholarship and practices towards futuristic archives, records and data curation for Society 5.0
- Archives, records, cultural heritage materials
- Digital data curation
- Digital libraries
- Digital preservation
- Digital forensics
Scholarship and practice in data science, analytics and visualisation in Information Science for Society 5.0
- Informatics
- Digital forensics security
- Data mining and information management
- Open data movement and access
- Personal data protection
- Data curatorship
- Altmetrics, bibliometrics, infometrics, scientometrics
Scholarship and practice for futuristic information dissemination and use in Society 5.0
- Scholarly communication
- Information dissemination
- Governance accountability and transparency in information
- Information ethics, computing ethics
- Information policy
- Health information
- Information security
- International information issues
- Copyright and intellectual property
- Ethical concerns in information use (misinformation and disinformation)
Scholarship and practice in information and knowledge management to advance a futuristic Society 5.0
- Information access
- Information architecture
- Information for development
- Knowledge management for development
- Information management
- Information retrieval
- Information seeking
- Information society
- Information organisation, knowledge organisation,
- Knowledge economy, evaluation, and sourcing knowledge
- Knowledge representation, metadata, classification
Futuristic Information Science education for Society 5.0
- E-learning, e-services education in information and archival science
- Information literacies
- Metaliterary
- Libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions
- Disability and inclusiveness
- Social justice and curriculum alignment
- Research methods in library, archives and information science
Disruptive technology for scholarship and practice in information science for Society 5.0
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Robotic machines
- Cobotic machines
- Virtual reality
- Augmented reality
- Smart technologies
- Cybersecurity
- Voice computing
- Internet of things (IoT)
- Cloud computing
- Blockchain technology
Partnerships and collaboration among and between organisations associated with the Information Science industry to strengthen its impact on Society 5.0
- Services provision
- Technology as enabler for service delivery
- Education
- Readership
- Storytelling
- Citizen Science
- Practice-based papers are encouraged especially those relating to case studies on collaborations and partnerships.
Institutional research niche areas aligned to Library and Information Science research.
- Library and Information Science for Automotive initiatives
- Library and Information Science in Aviation and Aeronautical Studies
- Library and Information Science support in Energy
- Library and Information Science enhancement for Feminist, Womanist, Bosadi Theorizations
- Library and Information Science in Health Studies or Medicine
- Library and Information Science in Marine Studies
- Library and Information Science in Natural Sciences (Biotechnological Studies)
- Library and Information Science in Space Study and Square Kilometer Area
- Library and Information Science for Student Support and Co-Curricular Activities