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ECDL 2004 Call for Contributions

The submission process is now closed.

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 14, 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 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 Sunday 12 September and workshops on Thursday 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. Presenters will be informed on June 14 if their poster or demonstrator submission is successful.

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

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