Dear all,

Sely Costa, the Elpub2003 Programme Committee chair asked me to post
Elpub2003 CFP in the DC mailing list. Please apologize for
cross-posting.

Best regards,

AA

----------------------------------------------
Ana Alice Baptista
Departamento de Sistemas de Informação
Escola de Engenharia - Universidade do Minho
4800-019 Guimarães
Portugal

-----Original Message-----

*** THIS MESSAGE IS CROSS POSTED TO SEVERAL LISTS. WE 
APOLOGISE FOR ANY DUPLICATION ***

Call for Papers – ELPUB 2003

ICCC/IFIP 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC 
PUBLISHING, to be held in Guimarães, Portugal, 25 – 28 
June 2003

ELPUB 2003 – FROM INFORMATION TO KNOWLEDGE
http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003

This 7th conference will be hosted by the Department of 
Information Systems at the University of Minho, in 
Guimarães, (Northern Portugal), a beautiful XII century 
city that recently became part of world’s cultural 
heritage.

The 7th ELPUB attempts to keep the tradition of the six 
previous international (annual) conferences on 
electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (1997 
and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia 
(2000), and the Czech Republic (2002) which is to bring 
together researchers, lecturers, developers, 
industrials, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, 
users and all those interested on issues regarding 
electronic publishing in the most different contexts. 
These include human, cultural, economic, social, 
technological, legal, commercial and any other relevant 
aspect that such an exciting theme encompasses.

Elpub 2003 offers a variety of new activities, such as 
workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. So, the 
conference will bring about opportunities for 
attendants to participate in a number of activities, 
including:
- The communication of papers specially prepared and 
selected (peer reviewed) for the conference; 
- Three prominent invited speakers who will be 
presenting their keynotes on the three first days of 
the conference programme;
- Several workshops and tutorials that aim to provide 
opportunity for attendants to update themselves in 
topics of high interest within this community of 
experts;
- Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas 
presented and discussed during the presentation of the 
conference papers;
- Panel debates on selected topics
- And at last but not least, the presentation of 
posters. The conference welcomes authors on the 
following topics:

GENERAL TRACK:
New publishing models
New services for the Web
Services and products for academics, executives, 
governors, media communicators, etc.
The Semantic Web
Multimedia and multimodal Web
Web for the TV
New services for disabled people
Metadata use and interoperability
The communication cycle of electronic scholarly 
publications: production, distribution, acquisition and 
use
Infocracy / infoexclusion
Copyright on the web
Security, privacy and other issues regarding 
information availability on the web
Digital preservation, reliability, quality, etc.
Digital libraries for different communities of users
Distance learning; Education and training
Global collaboration through the information 
infrastructure internationally available

TECHNICAL TRACK
The use of XML and its related technologies 
Development and use of XML applications
Development and use of codification mechanisms, 
technologies and tools for the metadata encoding 
process :MHP, RDF, etc.
Content search, analysis and retrieval on the Web;
Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing 
applications
Electronic publishing for mobile devices
Development and use of technologies for security, 
preservation and quality assurance of information 
sources and information access channels
Technologies for the global information infrastructure
Technologies for the integration of recommendations, 
standards, and standards proposals.
Technologies for the publication process in different 
contexts

PLEASE, NOTE THAT THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE 
EXHAUSTIVE. THEREFORE, SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN 
THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED.

***AUTHOR GUIDELINES:
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15thth, 2003 
Abstracts submission include:
Title of the paper;
Authors’ names;
Authors’ affiliation;
Authors’ full address (including phones, fax and email);
Extended abstract in English - sent by email, using: 
text only format; no formatting; double space between 
paragraphs; Font type/size Arial 12 or similar; 1.200-
1.500 words length.
Keywords in English
Abstracts should be sent to: [log in to unmask]

The programme committee will send notification of 
acceptance of submitted papers by February 28th, 2003.
The deadline for Full Papers will be April, 30th, 2003. 
Speakers will be given 20 minutes for their 
presentation, plus 10 minutes at most for discussion. 
All Full Papers will be published in the conference 
proceedings.
Posters are due to be brought by their authors at the 
conference time and only their abstracts will be 
published in the conference proceedings. 

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Host: University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
General Chair: João Álvaro de Carvalho, University of 
Minho, Portugal  [log in to unmask] 
Programme Chair: Sely M. S. Costa, University of 
Brasilia, Brazil  [log in to unmask] 
Programme Committee:
Amaral, Luís, University of Minho, Portugal 
Berto, Rosa M. V. S. – Technology Research Institute, 
Brazil
Bonn, Maria – University of Michigan, USA
Bräscher, Marisa – Brazilian Institute of Science and 
Technology Information, Brazil
Carvalho, Ana Amélia A. – University of Minho, Portugal
Cetto, Ana Maria – National Autonomous University of 
Mexico, Mexico
Chan, Leslie – University of Toronto at Scarborough, 
Canada
Costa, Sely M. S. – University of Brasilia, Brazil
Delgado, Jaime – University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Diocaretz, Myriam – International Institute of 
Infonomics, Netherlands
Engelen, Jan – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Fox, Edward – Virginia Tech, USA
Guimarães, Nuno M. – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Henriques, Pedro Rangel – University of Minho, Portugal
Iyengar, Arun – IBM Research, USA
Jezek, Karel – University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 
Czech Republic
Juhola, Helene – VTT Information Technology, Finland
Linde, Peter – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Moreira, Ana Cristina – University of Brasilia, Brazil
Okerson, Ann – Yale University, USA
Russell, Jane – National Autonomous University of 
Mexico, Mexico
Schwänzel, Roland – University of Osnabrück, Germany
Smith, John W. T. – University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Targino, Maria das Graças – University of Piauí, Brazil

For additional information, please contact the 
Programme Committee: [log in to unmask]