CALL FOR PAPERS TPDL2015

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate 
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish your research to 
TPDL 2015.

The full paper submission deadline is March 20, 2015

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Call for Contributions
19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital 
Libraries
Poznań, Poland, September 14-18, 2015
http://tpdl2015.info/

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 
(TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that 
brings together researchers, developers, content
providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015 will be 
organized by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and it 
will be held in Poznań, Poland on September 14-18, 2015.

* Aims and scope *
Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or 
transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, 
cultural, governmental and industry activities. For this purpose the 
digital libraries community has developed long-term and 
interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such 
as development of Digital Libraries, solving practical problems,
accomodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user 
communities.

The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information 
with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. 
Information providers inter-link their metadata with user
contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of 
a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term 
preservation challenges.

TPDL 2015 under the general theme "Connecting Digital Collections", 
invites submissions for scientific and research work in the following 
categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, 
Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions 
will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and 
clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will 
be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs).

Industry submissions are especially welcome, and a dedicated conference 
track is planned for them if many quality submissions are received.

* Topics *
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the
following topics:

*Connecting digital libraries:*
  - exploring semantic web and linked data
  - data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
  - multilingual information retrieval
  - metadata aggregation models
  - interoperability and information integration
  - ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information
  - applications of digital libraries

*Practice of digital libraries:*
  - quality assurance in digital libraries
  - scalability and high availability of digital libraries
  - infrastructures supporting content processing
  - user studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and 
applications
  - large scale digital preservation infrastructures for cultural 
heritage
  - digital curation
  - multimedia information management and retrieval
  - user interfaces and user experience

*Digital libraries in science:*
  - digital humanities
  - scholarly primitives
  - research data and virtual organizations
  - visualisation in digital libraries
  - digital libraries as source of big data for humanities

*Users, communities, personal data:*
  - social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interfaces in digital 
libraries
  - social-technical perspectives of digital information
  - user mobility and context awareness in information access
  - personal information management and personal digital libraries
  - long term preservation in personal digital libraries
  - community-driven digital libraries

  *Special track*: Digital Libraries in the industry


* Important Dates *
- Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 20, 2015
- Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: February 28, 2015
- Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: 
May 22, 2015
- Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 
13, 2015
- Camera Ready Versions: June 12, 2015
- Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015
- Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2015
- End of Early Registration: July 15, 2015
- Conference Dates: September 14-18, 2015

* Formatting Instructions *
Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and 
demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF 
format. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions 
should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For
Authors" webpage 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For 
Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10 
pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted 
according to Springer LNCS guidelines. In case your paper includes
images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 
600dpi when you produce your PDF file.

* Submission *
All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted 
in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission 
page (TBA). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2015, 
inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration 
of at least one author per paper.

* Organization *
General Chairs:
Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poland
Marcin Werla, PSNC, Poland

Program Chair:
Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece

Organizing Chair:
Damian Niemir, PSNC, Poland