ICADL 2014 - The 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries

ICADL2014 welcomes submissions in the areas that resonate with (but not limited to) the theme of “The Emergence of Digital Libraries Research and Practices”. The Topics of the conference are divided into 5 areas, of which the “Digital Humanities” is specifically highlighted because it is an emerging issue and the aspect of Asia-Pacific’s digital humanities is quite unique and exclusive which must be valuable for sharing in an international forum.
Topics:
Foundations
Information models; Digital library conceptual models; Digital library 2.0; Digital library education; Economic and legal aspects; Landscape for digital libraries; Theoretical models of information interaction and organization; Information policies; Human factors in networked information; Scholarly primitives; User behavior analysis and modeling; Social-technical perspectives of digital information.
Infrastructures
Digital library architectures; Cloud & grid deployments; Federation of repositories; Collaborative & participatory information environments; Data storage & indexing; Big data management; e-science; e-government; e-learning; cultural heritage infrastructures; Semi structured data; Semantic web issues in digital libraries; Ontologies and knowledge organization systems; Linked Data & its applications.
Contents
Metadata schemas; Interoperability and Information integration; Digital curation and related workflows; Preservation, authenticity and provenance; Web archiving; Social media and dynamically generated content for particular uses; 3D models indexing and retrieval; Authority management issues.
Services
Information retrieval & browsing; Multilingual & multimedia Information Retrieval; Personalization in digital libraries; Context awareness in information access; Semantic aware services; Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries; Visualization of large-scale information environments; Evaluation of online information environments; Quality metrics; Interfaces to digital libraries; Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information; Scholarly communication.
Digital Humanities
Humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling; Computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship; The digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas; The creation and curation of humanities digital resources; Social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities; The role of digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula.