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The Second Asian Digital Libraries Conference
National Taiwan University
November 8-9, 1999
http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/adl99/
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<INTRODUCTION>
The Asian Digital Libraries Conference (ADL) tries
to bring together researchers and developers from
academia, industry and government to advance the
research of digital libraries in Asia. The first
ADL was held in Hong Kong in August, 1998. The
second conference will be held on November 8-9,
1999 at the newly inaugurated University Library
of the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The conference will be immediately followed by
IRAL'99 (Workshop on Information Retrieval with
Asian Languages, 1999), to further facilitate
interchange between the DL and IR communities.
<TOPICS>
The workshop will cover all research areas in
digital libraries. Emphasis will also be given
to issues pertinent to digitization of documents
and artifacts of Asian cultures. Topics of particular
interest include but are not limited to:
1. COLLECTION
Arts
Humanities
Archives
Manuscripts
Government Information
Geographic Material
2. DIGITALIZATION AND PRESERVATION
OCR
Archiving
Authoring
Multimedia
Watermark
Image Processing
3. INFORMATION ORGANIZATION
Metadata
Thesaurus and Corpus
Knowledge Representation
Multimedia
Data Modeling
SGML, XML, HTML, RDF
4. USER INTERACTION
Presentation
Visualization
User Study
Evaluation Model
Learning and Instruction
User Feedback
5. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Automatic Indexing and Classification
Intelligent Agent
Cross-Language Retrieval
Distributed Access
Information Filtering
Information Extraction
6. SYSTEM AND INFRASTRUCTURE
System Architecture
Content Management
Naming Scheme
Network
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Security and Access Control
7. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Legal Issues
Economic Issues
Education
Authentication and Authorization
Publishing
Policy
<SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS>
Both original research papers and descriptions of
existing systems and ongoing projects are solicited.
Research papers can be up to 15 A4 (or letter) size pages, and
system descriptions can be up to 8 A4 (or letter) size pages,
all in single column, 1.5 spacing, 1 inch all around.
The primary means of submission will be electronic,
in Word, PostScript or PDF format. Submissions should
be sent to [log in to unmask] Postal submissions
will be accepted, too. All authors taking this option
should mail 3 copies of their submitted papers to Program
Committee at the address below. Additional details on
submission guidelines will be posted at the conference
homepage.
ADL'99 Program Committee
Department of Library and Information Science
National Taiwan University
1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road
Taipei 10764, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-2-23660503
Fax: +886-2-23632859
<IMPORTANT DATES>
July 31, 1999: Paper Submissions due
September 30, 1999: Notification of acceptance of papers
November 8-9, 1999: ADL'99 Conference
<REVIEWING PROCESS>
At least 2 members of the Program Committee will be asked
to review each paper submission. There will be one Program
Committee meeting to make the final selections.
<LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION>
The conference is hosted by National Taiwan University, in
Taipei, Taiwan. The university is centrally located and has
a number of large hotels within walking distance. The
university also has a limited number of guest rooms.
<CONTACT INFORMATION>
General Co-Chair: Hsinchun Chen, Jieh Hsiang, Ming-der Wu
Program Committee Co-Chair: Hsueh-hua Chen, Yen-Jen Oyang
Tutorial Co-Chair: Chao-chen Chen, Chiou-shann Fuh
Local Organization Chair: Chu-ping Han
Treasurer: Wan-jung Chiu
<FURTHER INFORMATION>
Detailed information about the program, and about
registration and accommodation will be made available
at a later stage. For further information, please contact
the local organizers at [log in to unmask] or visit
the ADL'99 home page: http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/adl99/
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