TPDL 2012 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

Over the last years, Digital Libraries have taken over a central role in our society. The process of acquiring, creating, processing, retrieving, disseminating, and using knowledge, information, data and metadata has undergone and still continues to undergo significant changes. This includes an ever increasing public access to on-line resources, an evolution in the amount and diversity of resources that are available through this channel, a social shift in the paradigm of how to experience information towards interactive, globally collaborative and personalized approaches, and many more.
In this spirit, TPDL aims at providing a forum for researchers, developers, content providers and practitioners for presenting and discussing novel results from innovative research and systems development on Digital Libraries.
Topics of interest
Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.
TPDL solicits the submission of full (12 pages max.) and short (8 pages max.) research papers. General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four areas:
Foundations: Technology and Methodologies
Digital libraries: architectures and infrastructures
Metadata standards and protocols in digital library systems
Interoperability in digital libraries, data and information integration
Distributed and collaborative information spaces
Systems, algorithms, and models for digital preservation
Personalization in digital libraries
Information access: retrieval and browsing
Information organization
Information visualization
Multimedia information management and retrieval
Multilinguality in digital libraries
Knowledge organization and ontologies in digital libraries
Digital Humanities
Digital libraries in cultural heritage
Computational linguistics: text mining and retrieval
Organizational aspects of digital preservation
Information policy and legal aspects (e.g., copyright laws)
Social networks and networked information
Human factors in networked information
Scholarly primitives
Research Data
Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds)
Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution
Collaborative information environments
Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
Scientific data curation
Metadata for scientific data, data provenance
Services and workflows for scientific data
Data and knowledge management in virtual organizations
Applications and User Experience
Multi-national digital library federations (e.g., Europeana)
Digital Libraries in eGovernment, elearning, eHealth, eScience, ePublishing
Semantic Web and Linked Data
User studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications
Personal information management and personal digital libraries
Enterprise-scale knowledge and information management
User behavior and modeling
User mobility and context awareness in information access
User interfaces for digital libraries
Research Paper Submission
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 size of the poster should not exceed ISO A0 (portrait) size ? maximum height of 1189mm (46.81 inches) and maximum width of 841mm (33.11 inches).
The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.