ECDL 2010 - he European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)

Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Digital Libraries and Mobility
Digital Library Architectures
Digital Library Infrastructure
Digital Preservation and Curation
Information Mining in Digital Libraries
Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
Interoperability of Digitial Library Systems and Services
Knowledge Organisation Systems
Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems
Multilinguality in Digital Libraries
Multimedia Digital Libraries
Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries
Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings
Policies for Digital Library systems
Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital Libraries
User Interfaces for Digital Libraries
User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications
Visualisation in Digital Libraries
All research papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Research papers must be up to 12 pages of length for long papers, up to 8 pages for short papers, and must be submitted via the conference submission system. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance can be as long paper, short paper or poster.

The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The authors of the best (long) research papers will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their papers for publication in a Special Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer).

Here are the important dates:
Research paper submission: March 8, 2010 (midnight HAST, GMT -10hrs)
Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2010
Submission of final version: May 24, 2010