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                        ECDL 2001

          5th European Conference on Research and
          Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

          September 4-8 2001, Darmstadt, Germany

                  http://www.ecdl2001.org


             TUTORIALS  : September 4   2001
             CONFERENCE : September 5-7 2001
             WORKSHOPS  : September 8   2001


                    IMPORTANT DATES:

          April 1, 2001 : Deadline for ALL the proposals
          May 21, 2001  : Notification of acceptance
          June 20, 2001 : Camera ready papers from the authors


ECDL is the 5th in the annual European Digital Libraries conferences. This 
gives a good opportunity to review the impact Digital Libraries have on 
science, technology, and society in general. In this perspective the 
conference will emphasise applications of Digital Library systems and their 
integration in the user communities. Future perspectives, such as the 
convergence of libraries, museums, and archives into Collective Memories, 
will be discussed.

The scientific program includes:
* Submitted scientific papers, including short papers and submitted poster 
presentations.
* Presentations of prototypes, operational systems, and associated use 
experiences.
* Invited papers and panel discussions.


THE FOCUS OF ECDL 2001:

LIBRARIES; MUSEUMS; ARCHIVES - convergence in the digital world?
This focus will explore the on-going convergence of libraries, archives, 
and museums into integrated digital information spaces on science, art, and 
history. Contributions may discuss:
* How to organise these spaces and how to help people to find their way in 
them.
* The chances and limitations of blurring the roles of people involved - 
are they visitors, users, librarians, archivists, researchers?
* The roles of real artefacts and of their digital counterparts. Will 
digital images replace or enhance physical objects?

COLLABORATION IN INFORMATION SPACES.
Future forms of collaboration in information spaces can be discussed under 
various scenarios:
* Scientific research on and annotation of rare and fragile objects can be 
combined with the curiosity of interested lay persons.
* Digital objects allow "hands on" experience that is not possible with the 
real artefacts.
* Diverse interpretations and views now spread over various publications 
can be documented and brought together.

COLLECTIVE MEMORY - A global institution?
Global availability of digital Collective Memories makes the physical 
location of Libraries, Museums, and Archives less important. However, the 
local and regional idiosyncrasies of users will adapt only slowly to a 
global view - especially when Collective Memories go beyond the domains of 
science and large organisations. As a European conference, ECDL 2001 must 
pay close attention to these aspects of globalisation with regard to 
multilinguality, preservation of the diverse cultural heritage, traditions, 
views, and approaches.

In those three areas scientific papers are called for especially in, but 
not restricted to:
* Applications in science, technology, and society
* Integration in user communities
* User interfaces, user models
* Technologies supporting knowledge management
* Information and knowledge environments
* Collaboration in information spaces
* Information retrieval, filtering, personalisation, and enrichment
* Multimedia digital libraries
* Digitalisation and annotation of real world artefacts
* Data models, metadata models, ontologies
* Rights management, access control
* Information authentication and quality control
* Multilinguality


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

PAPERS
Authors of regular papers are invited to submit original contributions, not 
exceeding 5000 words. The authors must follow the instructions found at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The ECDL 2001 home page http://www.ecdl2001.org will contain further 
details on electronic submissions.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. The 
workshops will be organised during September 8th 2001.

PANEL PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for panels sessions related to the conference topics. 
We strongly encourage panels that have a mixture of 2 academic and 2 
practitioners/ users (plus the chair).

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
We solicit proposals for tutorials related to the conference topics. The 
tutorials will be organised during September 4th 2001. 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 those purposes will be available during the 
conference. The Demonstrations co-chairs can answer technical or practical 
questions beforehand.

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.


ORGANISATION

GENERAL CHAIRS:
Erich J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI: [log in to unmask]
Elisabeth Niggemann, Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt:[log in to unmask]

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, NTNU, Trondheim:
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Panos Constantopoulos, FORTH, Greece: [log in to unmask]

DEMO & POSTER CHAIRS:
Dan  Atkins, University of Michigan: [log in to unmask],
Karsten Wendland, TUD, Darmstadt:[log in to unmask]

TUTORIAL CHAIRS:
Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund:[log in to unmask]
Richard Furuta, TAMU, Texas: [log in to unmask]

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Carol Peters, IEI-CNR, Pisa: [log in to unmask]

ORGANISATION CHAIRS:
Rudi Schmiede, TUD, Darmstadt: [log in to unmask]
Matthias Hemmje, GMD-IPSI: [log in to unmask]

PUBLICITY CHAIRS:
Thomas Baker, GMD,St. Augustin: [log in to unmask]
Nick Belkin, Rutgers Univ: [log in to unmask]

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Andreas Paepcke, Stanford Univ., USA
Anne Brüggemann-Klein, TU Munich, Germany
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, CSIRO, Australia
C.J. van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK
Carl Lagoze, Cornell Univ., USA
Carol Peters, CNR, Italy
Chris Rusbridge, Univ. of Warwick, UK
Costantino Thanos, CNR, Italy
Dagobert Soergel, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Daniel E. Atkins, UoMichigan., USA
Ed Fox Virginia Tech, USA
Hachim Haddouti, Bavarian Research Center, Germany
Ingeborg Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway
Jose Borbinha, INESC, Portugal
Laszlo Kovacs, SZTAKI, Hungary
Lene Rold, National Museum, Denmark
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
Linda Hill, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Lorcan Dempsey, UKOLN, UK
Lynda Hardman, CWI, Netherlands
Margaret Hedstrom, UoMichigan, USA
Martin Doerr, FORTH, Greece
Matthew Dovey, Oxford Univ., UK
Matthias Hemmje, GMD, Germany
Nick Belkin Rutgers, Univ., USA
Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund Univ., Germany
Ole Husby BIBSYS, Norway
Panos Constantopoulos, FORTH, Greece
Paul Miller, UKOLN, UK
Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden
Richard Furuta, TAMU, Texas
Shiego Sugimoto, ULIS, Japan
Siegfried Krause, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Germany
Stuart Weibel, OCLC, USA
Thomas Baker, GMD, Germany
Traugott Koch, Lund University, Sweden
Trond Aalberg, NTNU, Norway
Ulrich Thiel, GMD, Germany



Sponsored by:
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, The European 
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), DELOS Network 
of Excellence, European Commission's Human Potential Programme, German 
National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)



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