Sunday, December 11, 2005

CFP: 2nd Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems

CFP: 2nd Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems

A Conference of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova Padova, Italy, 27 January 2006

DELOS is an EU-funded interdisciplinary Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (DELOS Web site) with a broad vision: Future digital libraries (DLs) should enable any citizen to access human knowledge any time and anywhere, in a friendly, multi-modal, efficient and effective way. The main objective of the DELOS network is to contribute to the development of the enabling technologies so that its vision for digital libraries may become reality. In order to achieve such an ambitious objective DELOS is coordinating a joint program of activities of the major European teams working in digital library related areas.

Aim of this Second Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems is to bring together researchers interested in the different methods and techniques that allow to build and operate DLs and to identify ongoing research directions.

Abstract Submission
Submissions in form of extended abstracts, not exceeding 2 pages, should be sent electronically in PDF agosti@dei.unipd.it before December 20, 2005. Accepted extended abstracts (max 4 pages) in PDF will be published as DELOS workshop on-line proceedings at the time of the conference. Full version of accepted papers (12 pages) will be published as DELOS workshop proceedings after the conference.

Topics
-Architectures of Digital Library Management Systems
-Information Access and Personalization
-Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Objects
-User Interfaces and Visualization
-Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Interoperability
-Preservation
-Evaluation of Digital Libraries

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 20, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: January 14, 2006
Submission of Accepted Abstracts: January 23, 2006
Conference: January 27, 2006

For more information, see this link:
http://ims.dei.unipd.it/events/2006/ircdl/CfP_2nd-IRCDL-2006.pdf