Saturday, March 18, 2006

ICDL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) Issues Call for Papers

ICDL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) Issues Call for Papers
New Delhi, India
December 5-8, 2006
Deadline: June 1, 2006

URL: http://ldp.library.jhu.edu/cfpicdl06


The International Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and related issues. It aims to consolidate and expand concerted efforts to bridge the digital divide. ICDL2006 proposes to focus on Information Management for Global Access through the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries.

You are invited to submit your papers to the 2nd International Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held in New Delhi, India 5-8 December, 2006. Contributions are invited for conference sessions, tutorials, poster presentations and workshops.

TOPICS: The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to): · Planning, development, and management of digital libraries · Online information management · Content organization and knowledge management · System scalability and interoperability · Semantics, thesauri, and ontology · Information storage and retrieval for global access · Open archives initiatives · User studies and system evaluation · E-learning · Multi-lingual information retrieval system and unicode · Digital divide · Digital preservation · Standards in digital library design and development · Dublin core and metadata standards · DRM and copyrights issues · Digital library services · Digital library network and information sharing · E-publishing · Economic issues of DL and e-learning · Tools and techniques for DL · DL models and architectures

Paper Submission Information:
All papers must be original in contribution and authors are expected to transfer the copyright to TERI. Papers must be written in English and limited to 5000 words. Each paper should contain a list of about five keywords. The paper should also mention the topic under which it falls from the above list of topics or any other. Send your paper in MS Word (any version) format. For Detail submission details and author guidelines, please refer to the conference website. Full paper should be submitted electronically at (ICDL@teri.res.in) by 1 June, 2006.