ECDL 2004

Call for Contributions

Posters and demonstrators

Submissions are still invited (until May 19 2004) for posters and demonstrators. To submit a poster/demonstrator, please go to the ECDL-2004 Panels, Workshops, Tutorials and Posters/Demonstrators page.

The submission of papers, panels, workshops and tutorials is now closed.

To access the paper review systems as a member of the Programme Committee, please go to the ECDL-2004 Paper Submission and Review page.

Important dates

Papers and panel discussions form part of the main conference.The full text of papers is required at the initial submission stage. Papers must have been submitted electronically via the submission web pages by the extended deadline of April 17, 2004. If accepted, camera-ready versions of papers will be required by June 11, 2004. It is expected that papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Panel proposals should provide for a discussion forum on research, advanced application or policy matters. The extended submission deadline for panel proposals was the April 17, 2004.

We invited submissions for workshops and tutorials. These are 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 ideas and should allow considerable time for discussion.
Tutorials should cover current areas of interest, follow a single topic and present learning opportunities for participants.

Proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials should include an outline of the relevance of the topic, an outline of the session, and details of participating speakers. The (extended) submission deadline for panels, workshops and tutorials was also April 17, 2004.

There will be opportunity to present both posters and demonstrations during a poster session and throughout the conference. Deadline for 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 the contributions are available on the conference web site. The submission software is now available.

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

Important dates

Papers and panel discussions form part of the main conference.The full text of papers is required at initial submission stage. Papers must be submitted electronically via the submission web pages by extended deadline April 17 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 extended deadline April 17 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 ideas and should allow considerable time for discussion.
Tutorials should cover current areas of interest, follow a single topic and present learning opportunities for participants.

Proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials should include an outline of
the relevance of the topic, an outline of the session, and details of participating speakers. Submission deadline for panels, workshops and tutorials - extended deadline April 17 2004

There will be opportunity to present both posters and demonstrations during a poster session and throughout the conference. Deadline for 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 the contributions are available on the conference web site. The submission software is now available.

Web page content by Natasha Bishop of UKOLN
Page last revised on: 04-Jun-2004