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Subject: ECDL 2004 Conference 12 - 17 September 2004
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:41:30 -0000
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*_Call for Papers: ECDL 2004_*
*European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2004*
*September 12-17 2004*
*University of Bath, UK*
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http://www.ecdl2004.org <http://www.ecdl2004.org/>
ECDL 2004 is the 4^th 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 15^th 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 <http://www.ecdl2004.org/> or email
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Further details on registration and submissions will be added to the
website in the near future.
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327
Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
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