ECDL'06 CfP

["Atsuyuki Morishima" <mori [at] slis.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

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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
      Workshop proposal deadline
    * February 24
      Workshop acceptance notification
    * March 3
      Paper/Tutorial/Panel submission deadline
    * April 3
      Doctoral consortium submission deadline
    * April 22
      Acceptance notification for tutorials
    * May 15
      Acceptance notifications for papers/poster/demos/doctoral consortium
    * June 2
      Final version of papers/poster/demos/doctoral consortium
    * July 1      End of early registration
    * September 17-22
      Conference
Additional information about submissions can be found at the conference
website.  http://www.ecdl2006.org

			ORGANIZATION

    * General Chair
      Felisa Verdejo (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain)
    * Program Chairs
      Costantino Thanos (CNR, Italy) and Julio Gonzalo (Universidad Nacional
de
      Educacion a Distancia, Spain)
    * Organization chair
      Rafael C. Carrasco (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
    * Workshops chairs
      Donatella Castelli (CNR, Italy) and Jos・Luis Vicedo (Universidad de
      Alicante, Spain)
    * Poster & demo chair
      Gunter Muhlberger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
    * Panel chairs
      Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) and Liz Lyon
      (UKOLN, UK)
    * Tutorial Chairs
      Ingeborg Solvberg(Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway)
      and Marcos Andre Goncalves (Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil)
    * Publicity and exhibits chair
      Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy), Tamara Sumner
      (Universtity of Colorado at Boulder, USA) and Shigeo Sugimoto
(University
      of Tsukuba, Japan).
    * Doctoral Consortium Chairs
      Jose Borbinha (IST, Lisbon Technical Universtity, Portugal) and
Lillian
      Cassel (Villanova University, USA)

 e-mail: office [at] ecdl2006.org

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筑波大学 知的コミュニティ基盤研究センター 知の共有基盤研究部門
筑波大学大学院 図書館情報メディア研究科
〒305-8550 つくば市春日1-2
Atsuyuki Morishima <amorishima [at] acm.org>
Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba
1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan
Phone: +81 29 859 1306 or 1556