[Sigia-l] Call for Papers: European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2004

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European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2004
September 12-17 2004
University of Bath, UK

http://www.ecdl2004.org

ECDL 2004 is the 4th in the series of European Digital Library Conferences.
ECDL has become the major European Forum focusing on digital libraries and
associated technical, organisational and social issues.

Digital library research brings together a number of disciplines and
practitioner communities, providing a stimulating environment for debate and
an opportunity for establishing collaboration. ECDL provides a forum for the
exchange of ideas between scientific disciplines and fosters joint
initiatives with application communities.  Involvement of researchers and
practitioners from computing and information science disciplines is well
established at ECDL. Increasingly these disciplines are engaging in
discussion and co-operation with other groups concerned with knowledge
management. ECDL 2004 encourages involvement from a wide range of
disciplines and looks forward to increasing contributions from usability
experts, educationalists, developers of eLearning systems, and by working
within the eScience and GRID communities.  The continued success of ECDL
rests on the exchange of ideas and experience between these groups.

ECDL 2004 welcomes contribution and participation from scholars,
researchers, practitioners and policy makers across the range of disciplines
related to the development of the digital library in its widest sense.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 5 2004:  Papers, panels, tutorials and workshops submissions due.

May 19 2004:  Poster and demonstration submissions due.

June 11 2004: Final submission date.

RELEVANT TOPICS

Contributions may include but are not limited to:
- Strategy, management and policy making
* Human resources, economics, business models
* Evaluation, metrics, testbeds

- Digital library applications
* Digital libraries and learning
* Digital libraries and Research Grids / eScience
* Multilingual digital libraries
* Geo-spatial, still and moving images, sound and 3D graphics libraries

- Information architectures and interoperability
* Infrastructures and middleware
* Semantic Web technologies
* Agent technologies
* Development of Web Services
* Application of open standards & protocols
* Ubiquitous environments and mobile access

- Users of digital libraries
* Personalisation and agent technologies
* Annotation and recommendation services
* Presentation and visualisation
* Usability, user studies and user-centred design

- Digital repositories
* Curation and preservation
* Provenance and trust
* Describing and managing collections
* Digital rights management, licences and schema
* Open archives and self archiving

- Knowledge management
* Knowledge extraction, data and text mining
* Semantic interoperability, ontologies and knowledge representation
* Classification and indexing, thesauri development
* Metadata schema, registries and mapping

- Delivery channels
* Changing models of scholarly communications
* Collaboratories
* Virtual organisations and digital libraries

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Submissions are invited for full or short papers, posters, demonstrations,
panels, tutorials and workshops.

Papers and panel discussions form part of the main conference.  Papers will
be included in the conference proceedings. The full text of papers is
required at initial submission stage.  Papers must be submitted
electronically via the submission web pages by April 5 2004.  If accepted,
camera-ready versions of papers are required by June 11 2004.  It is
expected that papers will be presented at the conference by the/an author.
Panel proposals should provide for a discussion forum on research, advanced
application or policy matters.  The submission deadline for panel proposals
is April 5 2004.

We invite submissions for workshops and tutorials.  These may be either full
day or half day and will take place on either side of the main conference
with tutorials on 11 September and workshops on 16 September.  Workshops
should report on ongoing work, experiences, late breaking results and
advanced development areas and should allow considerable time for
discussion.

Tutorials should present a single topic and provide learning objectives for
the expected participants.

Submission deadline for workshops and tutorials - April 5 2004

Submission of posters and demonstrations - May 19 2004

All contributions must clearly demonstrate relevance to Digital Libraries

Detailed submission guidelines including information about formats and
length of contributions will be made available on the conference website.
The submission software will be available one month before the submission
deadline.

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be held at the University of Bath, Bath, UK on September
12-17 2004.

The City of Bath has been welcoming visitors for over 2,000 years.
Designated by UNESCO as a world heritage site, famed for it's Georgian
architecture Bath presents some of the finest architectural sights in Europe
such as the Royal Crescent, The Circus and Pulteney Bridge.  The city has a
rich diversity of museums, galleries and attractions including the 15th
Century Bath Abbey.  There is a year-round calendar of festivals, theatre,
musical and sporting events.

Bath is renowned for its selection of shops from the haute couture of Milsom
Street to the trendy, crafts and antiques of Walcot Street and has over 150
restaurants with a enormous choice of international culinary styles and
traditional local food.

Bath University is situated about 1.5 miles from the centre of Bath.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Program Chair: Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath,UK

Organisation chairs

James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK


Local organising Committee

Natasha Piper, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Sarah Smith, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

Treasurer

Sally Criddle, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

Workshop Chairs

Stefan Gradmann, Hamburg University, Germany
Lesly Huxley, University of Bristol, UK

Panel Chairs

Christine Borgman, University of California, USA
Stefan Decker, DERI, Ireland
Neil McLean, Macquerie University, Australia


Poster and demonstration chairs

Donatella Castelli, IEI - CNR, Italy
Heike Neuroth, Goettingen State and University Library, Germany

Tutorial chairs

Jose Borbhina, National Library of Portugal
John McColl, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado, USA

For further information on the conference please visit the website
http://www.ecdl2004.org or email events at ukoln.ac.uk

Further details on registration and submissions will be added to the website
in the near future.

http://www.ecdl2004.org