[Sigdl-l] Call for Bids to host the TPDL Conference - 2nd Call

[Giannis Tsakonas]

* apologies for cross-⁠postings *

## Call for Bids to host the TPDL Conference -⁠ http://www.tpdl.eu ##

The Steering Committee of the TPDL- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORY 
AND PRACTICE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES, invites persons and organizations to 
submit a bid for hosting the conference in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

TPDL has been the leading scientific forum on digital libraries since 
1997. Until 2011 the conference was named European Conference on 
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL). 
Information about the previous ECDL/TPDL conferences can be found at: 
http://www.tpdl.eu/?cat=3

The conference includes a variety of events in order to produce a rich 
and stimulating programme. Typically, a Conference includes (but is not 
necessarily limited to): (i) Tutorials, (ii) Workshops, (iii) Doctoral 
Consortium, (iv) Research papers, (v) Panel discussions, (vi) Posters & 
Demonstrations, (vii) Other co-located events, such as project meetings, 
and (viii) Social Programme.

Past conferences attracted 200-300 participants, and were usually held 
in the first weeks of September. TPDL has a long established cooperation 
with Springer-Verlag and its proceedings are being published in the 
frame of Lecture Notes on Computer Science, being indexed by the most 
important scientific databases and aggregators.

# PROCESS STEPS:
- (OPTIONAL) Informal expressions of interest are encouraged at any 
moment, providing as many details as possible, plus key contacts. 
Feedback and following assistance will be provided. Expressions sent 
until the September 5th or contacts in person during the forthcoming 
TPDL 2016 in Hanover, Germany on September 5-9, 2016 
(http://www.tpdl2016.org/) are strongly encouraged!!!
- (MANDATORY) Formal bids must be submitted according to the guidelines 
at: http://www.tpdl.eu/?page_id=7

# IMPORTANT DATES:
-⁠ Bid submission deadline: November 25, 2016
-⁠ Feedback to bidders and discussion: December 19, 2016
-⁠ Notification on bid selection: January 30, 2017

# SUBMISSIONS: Expressions of interest and bids must be sent by email to 
the Executive Board of the Steering Committee (Jose Borbinha, Chair; 
George Buchanan, Deputy Chair, Giannis Tsakonas, Secretary), to the 
following addresses: jlb at tecnico.ulisboa.pt; 
George.Buchanan.1 at city.ac.uk; john at lis.upatras.gr

# STEERING COMMITTEE
-⁠ Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, Norway
-⁠ Bolette Ammitzboll Jurik, State & University Library, Denmark
-⁠ Jose Borbinha, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
-⁠ George Buchanan, City University London, UK
-⁠ Vittore Casarosa, ISTI-⁠CNR, Pisa, Italy
-⁠ Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Malta
-⁠ Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece
-⁠ Laszlo Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
-⁠ Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain
-⁠ Cezary Mazurek, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
-⁠ Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece
-⁠ Edie Rasmussen, JCDL Rep., University of British Columbia, CA
-⁠ Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Wien, Austria
-⁠ Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
-⁠ Ingeborg Solvberg, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, 
Norway
-⁠ Constantino Thanos, ISTI, CNR, Italy
-⁠ Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece
-⁠ Marcin Werla, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland