ECDL 2009 - ECDL 2009 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries

ECDL 2009 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries

Aim and Scope

Close to the turn of the first decade of the third millennium, digital libraries are facing critical challenges that lead to major transformations. The expansion of social networking applications is an important development, which has lead to the creation of new user communities and the cohesion of already existing ones. Although user communities have been under the research lens of the digital library community, they never had higher interest than nowadays. User communities have abandoned pathetic participation in information environments and have developed an active behavior expressed in a multitude of ways.

In the same time, after a decade of solidification the issue of metadata re-emerges to address the new challenges. Annotations and tagging has been an edge-leading theme for digital libraries, which now can be viewed under a different perspective. The implication of user communities in various aspects of information management stages, such as creation of new information, enrichment of information artifacts, sharing and distribution of information objects, filtering of relevant items and so on, require a thorough examination of the metadata issues and services that augment all these activities.

In this intense environment ECDL 2009, under the general title "Digital Societies", invites submissions for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process.

Topics

Relevant topics for the ECDL 2009 are grouped to three tracks, corresponding to the Infrastructures, Content Management and the Services required for the development and support of Digital Societies. The topics include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructures
Digital Library Architectures: Grids
Formal Issues in Digital Libraries
Conceptual Views of Digital Libraries
User Interfaces
Strategic Infrastructure
Content Management
Metadata Schemas
Semi Structured Data
Interoperability & Data Integration
Digital Curation
Digital Archiving and Preservation
Collection Development & Management and Policies
Legal Issues
Semantic Web Issues in Digital Libraries
Services
Information Retrieval
Multilingual Information Retrieval
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Personalization in Digital Libraries
Ontologies and Knowledge Organization Systems
Social Networking & Web 2.0 Technologies
User Studies & Digital Library Evaluation
Log Data in Digital Libraries
Important Dates

Papers, Posters, Demonstrations submission deadline: March 21, 2009
Acceptance notifications: May 11, 2009
Camera ready versions: May 31 2009
Workshops, Tutorials and Panels submission deadline: February 27, 2009
Workshops, Tutorials and Panels acceptance notification: April 15, 2009
Doctoral Consortium Papers submission deadline: June 1, 2009
Doctoral Consortium Papers acceptance notification: June 30, 2009
Conference dates: September 27-October 2, 2009
Formats

All full papers (12 pages), short papers (8 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be submitted in electronic format (PDF or Word) through the appropriate submission system of the ECDL 2009 website. The ECDL2009 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage.

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