Main URL" Calls for Participation
EGOV05 International Conference on E-Government, 22 - 26 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. Call for workshop proposals. The submission date is 1 April 2005.
"The EGOV conference series intends to assess the state of the art in e-government/governance and to provide guidance for research, development and application in this fast-moving field. The annual conferences bring together leading research experts and professionals from all over the globe. EGOV 2005 in Denmark builds on the achievements of the three preceeding conferences (EGOV04 in Zaragoza, EGOV03 in Prague, and EGOV02 in Aix-en-Provence)."
For more information, please see http://www.iwv.jku.at/events/egov2005/call.php.
National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL), Program Solicitation NSF 05-545. Call for proposals. The full Proposal deadline is 11 April 2005 (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time).
"Building on work supported under the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative, this program aims to establish a national digital library that will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. In FY2005, the program will accept proposals in three tracks: (1) Pathways projects are expected to provide stewardship for the content and services needed by major communities of learners. (2) Services projects are expected to develop services that support users, resource collection providers, and the Core Integration effort and that enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the library. (3) Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the digital library."
For more information, please see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05545/nsf05545.htm.
The 6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, 11 - 13 October 2005, Hangzhou, China. Call for papers. The submission date is 11 April 2005.
"WAIM 2005 is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials and panels."
For more information, please see http://grid.zju.edu.cn/waim2005/index.html.
Seventh National Russian Research Conference (RCDL), 4 - 6 October 2005, Yaroslavl, Russia. Call for papers. The submission deadline for extended abstracts is 15 April 2005.
"The purpose of this conference series (previous six conferences were held in St.Petersburg (1999), Protvino (2000), Petrozavodsk (2001), Dubna (2002), St. Petersburg (2003), Pushchino (2004)) is to stimulate evolvement of the Russian digital libraries community and encourage research in this field....Participation is sought from all parts of the world stimulating international collaboration in the digital library field."
For more information, please see http://www.rcdl2005.uniyar.ac.ru/en/news.shtml.
7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, 22 - 26 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. Call for papers. The submission date is 15 April 2005.
"The objective of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This year the conference will also focus on autonomic aspect of data warehousing and knowledge discovery. Moreover, the conference will be supplemented with invited talks, panel discussion and industrial papers."
For more information, please see http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dawak2005/.
ISMIR 2005 - 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 11 - 15 September 2005. Call for participation. The submission deadline for papers, panels, tutorials, posters and demos is 18 April 2005.
"The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous growth of music-related data available either locally or remotely and the consequent need to search this content and retrieve music and musical information efficiently and effectively."
For more information, please see http://ismir2005.ismir.net/.
12th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE), 29 - 30 September 2005, Turku, Finland. Call for papers. The abstract submission deadline is 18 April 2005.
" Now in its 12th year, ECITE may be regarded as one of the longer established academic conferences on the European academic scene. Even after this period of time the conference still attracts new ideas concerning the subject of information technology benefits, costs, success and evaluation. Of course it is a subject of considerable import and the way in which the use of information and communication technology continues to grow suggests that the evaluation of benefits, costs and success and even failure, will be on the academic and practitioner's agenda for years to come."
For more information, please see http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecite2005/ecite05-home.htm.
The Eighth International Forum on Virtual Communities, 14 - 15 November 2005, London, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The submission date is 30 April 2005.
"This conference is an opportunity for attendees and speakers to share best practices. With a focus on various species of virtual communities, we plan presentations or panels on:
-Social Software and Social Networks
-Collaboration Tools: Helping Communities Work Together
-Communities of Practice
-Communities of Users
-Geographic / local area Communities
-Case studies of Successful Communities
-Core tools and technologies
-Communities as pressure groups / Flash communities"
For more information, please see http://www.infonortics.com/vc/vc05/vc05.announce.html.
