[Asis-l] ECDL2002 Call for Papers

[Tarina Ayazi]

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                                    ECDL2002

                6th European Conference on Research and
                Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
                               September 16-18, 2002
                           Pontifical Gregorian University
                                        Rome, Italy

                               http://www.ecdl2002.org


IMPORTANT DATES

May 1, 2002:    Deadline for ALL the proposals
May 15, 2002:  Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops
June 15, 2002:  Notification of acceptance for papers, panels, and posters
July 1, 2002:   Camera ready papers from the authors

ECDL 2002 is the 6th conference in the series of European Digital Libraries 
conferences. ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital 
libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. ECDL 2002 
is continuing the tradition already established by the previous conferences 
in meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes 
practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and users.

The focus of ECDL 2002 is on underlying principles, methods, systems and 
tools to build and make available to final users effective digital 
libraries. Integration of methods, services, systems and interoperability 
across different data structures, metadata and components are key issues 
that will be addressed by ECDL 2002. This annual event is going to be 
combined with a number of satellite scientific events, sponsored and 
organized by the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, an 
initiative funded by the EU FP5 Information Society Technologies programme, 
which aims at contributing to the creation of a European digital library 
research community, encompassing all the different technology and 
application fields.

ECDL 2002 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Submissions on all topic areas are welcome and will receive full and equal 
consideration. Submissions may be full and short papers, posters, panels, 
tutorials, or workshops. Although submissions are not restricted in topic 
or scope, we expect that submissions will fall into one or more of the 
following broad areas.

  - Research. Significant research results on all aspects of digital libraries,
    focusing on integration of methods, interoperability across different 
services,
    data and metadata structures and algorithms, information and text mining,
    knowledge and multimedia content management, validation also through
    implementation and use, as well as evaluation.

-  Policy. Discussion of significant policy issues related to the design, 
operation,
    and economics of digital libraries.

-  System. Systems issues in design, implementation, and building of
    digital libraries, preferably based on prototypes and strongly backed by
    practical experience.

-  Experience/Evaluation. Analysis of actual implementations of and user
    interaction with digital libraries in different application areas, 
possibly including
    contributions from the humanities, semiotics, and other areas.

-  Fundamentals. Studies associating digital libraries with previous areas of
    thought and discourse. This explicitly includes topics ranging from
    library/information science to philosophy. However, contributions in this
    area, as with the other areas, must be accessible to the range of 
conference
    attendees, including the more practical outlook of system developers.

ECDL 2002 provides a forum for discussing applications of digital library 
concepts and techniques in areas not yet really considered as being part of 
the Digital Library world, such as education and health care applications, 
digital earth-sky-law-art and music, humanities, social sciences, 
environment monitoring, natural sciences, and historical and scientific 
archives.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The ECDL 2002 home page http://www.ecdl2002.org contains details 
on  submissions.

SUBMISSION OF REGULAR AND SHORT PAPERS
Authors of regular and short papers are invited to submit original 
contributions, not exceeding 6000 words for regular papers and 3000 words 
for short papers.


WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for workshops related to the Conference topics. The 
workshops will take place immediately after the Conference.

PANEL PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for panel sessions related to the Conference topics.

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for tutorials related to the Conference topics.
The tutorials will take place on September 15, 2002. Proposals should 
identify the intended audience and provide a scope of what will be covered.

DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS
The conference organisers solicit proposals for demonstrations of 
innovative results, projects and products, and also for high quality 
posters. A permanent space for these purposes will be available during the 
conference.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).
The proceedings will be published as printed books as well as a full text 
electronic version.

ORGANIZATION

General Chair
Costantino Thanos (Italian National Research Council, Italy)

Program Chair
Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy)

Organization Chair
Pier Giorgio Marchetti (ESA, European Space Agency)

Organization Committee
Vittore Casarosa (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
Marta Giorgi (Pontifical Gregorian University, Italy)
Maria Pia Mariani (Italian Cultural Heritage Ministry, Italy)
Giovanna Merola (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Italy)
M. Carla Sotgiu (Discoteca di Stato, Italy)

Demo & Poster Chairs
Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
Mike Papazoglou (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands)

Panel Chairs
Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Rachel Heery (UKOLN, UK)

Workshop Chair
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)

Tutorial Chairs
Hans-Jorg Schek (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA)

US Liaison chair
Nick Belkin (Rutgers University, USA)

Publicity Chairs
Fillia Makedon (Dartmuth College, USA)
Simonetta Cheli (ESA, European Space Agency)

Treasurer
Ettore Ricciardi (Italian National Research Council, Italy)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

William Y. Arms (Cornell University, USA)
Daniel E. Atkins (University of Michigan, USA)
Paolo Atzeni (University of Roma3, Italy)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile)
Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
Elisa Bertino (University of Milan, Italy)
Klemens Boehm (ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland)
Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal)
Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ching-chih Chen (Simmons College, Boston, USA)
Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona, USA)
Stavros Christodoulakis (University of Crete, Greece)
Panos Costantopoulos (FORTH, Crete, Greece)
Gregory Crane (Tufts University, Medford, USA)
Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy)
Werner A. Deutsch (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy)
Dieter Fellner (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton, UK)
Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, 
Copenhagen, Denmark)
Leonid Kalinichenko (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Jaana Kekalainen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Martin Kersten (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer 
Science, The Netherlands)
Traugott Koch (Lund University, Sweden)
Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA)
Ronald Larsen (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, USA)
Elizabeth Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath, UK)
Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Herman Maurer (University of Gratz, Austria)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy)
Marc Nanard (LIRMM, Montpellier, France)
A. Desai Narasimhalu (National University of Singapore)
Erich Neuhold (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - IPSI, Germany)
Bo Ohrstrom (Danish National Library Authority)
Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University, USA)
Michael Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Carol Peters (Italian National Research Council)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Steve Robertson (MS Research, Cambridge, UK)
Chris Rusbridge (University of Glasgow, UK)
Rudi Schmiede (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Italian National Research Council)
Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Maria Sliwinska (Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland)
Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Terrence R. Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Ingeborg Solvberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Library and Information Science, Japan)
Elaine G. Toms (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK)
Howard Wactlar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stuart Weibel (Online Computer Library Center, USA)
Robert Wilensky (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Robin Williams (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA)
Ian H. Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Jerome Yen (The University of Hong Kong)


Tarina Ayazi
Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione
Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa
Via G. Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa, Italy
Tel: +39 050 315 2912
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: tarina at iei.pi.cnr.it