CFP: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES
"Towards the European Digital Library"
http://www.ecdl2006.org
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The 10th ECDL will be held in Alicante (Spain) in September 2006. Papers are invited on substantial, original and completed research, applications and development that have not previously been presented elsewhere and that make new contributions to all aspects of Digital Libraries, including, but not limited to:
* Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content.
* Collection building, management and integration.
* System architectures, integration and interoperability.
* Information organization, search and usage.
* Multilingual information access and multimedia content management.
* User interfaces for digital libraries.
* User studies and system evaluation.
* Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical and legal issues.
* Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning, e-government, cultural heritage, etc.
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS
Submissions (upto 12 pages) via the ECDL2005 Conference Management System
must follow the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Posters and demos will undergo a simplified review process, based on the
submitted papers, and will be directly accepted or rejected.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Workshops: proposals are invited for one- or two-day workshops (Thursday
September 21s, Friday September 22nd).
Panels: proposal should address controversial subjects of interest to a
large community of ECDL participants.
Tutorials: tutorials are intended to present a topic in detail over either a
half-day or a full day (Sunday September 17th).
Doctoral consortium: doctoral students (based on an acceptance of a written
abstract) will have the opportunity to discuss their proposal with
experienced researchers on Sunday September 17th.
IMPORTANT DATES
January 27, 2006 - Workshop proposal deadline
February 24, 2006 - Workshop acceptance notification
March 3, 2006 - Paper/Tutorial/Panel submission deadline
April 3, 2006 - Doctoral consortium submission deadline
April 22, 2006 - Acceptance notification for tutorials
May 15, 2006 - Acceptance notifications for papers/poster/demos/doctoral consortium
June 2, 2006 - Final version of papers/poster/demos/doctoral consortium
September 17-22, 2006 - Conference
e-mail: office@ecdl2006.org
URL: http://www.ecdl2006.org
