ECDL 2003: Submissions now welcome up to 10 March 2003

[Traugott.Koch _at__ ub2.lu.se]

 *Apologies for cross-postings*


                       ECDL 2003 - Trondheim, Norway 
                            17-22 August 2003 
                         http://www.ecdl2003.org/

Submissions are now being accepted for ECDL 2003, the 7th conference in the
series of European Digital Library conferences.  Paper, workshop, panel and
tutorial submissions are open until 10 March 2003.  Demonstration and
poster submissions accepted until 19 May 2003.

ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and
associated technical, practical, and social issues. We welcome
contributions and participation from scholars, researchers, developers and
practitioners from a wide range of disciplines as well as educators, policy
makers and users.

Contents of this mailing:
1. Submission forms and deadlines
2. Conference topics
3. Program Committee and Conference Chairs

See the conference Web site at http://www.ecdl2003.org for comprehensive
detail.

1. Submission forms and deadlines
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The **paper submission form** for ECDL2003 is now available at:
http://www.ecdl2003.org/PaperReview/ecdl2003/

Deadline for receipt of full and short papers (full text required) is **10
March 2003** The same deadline applies to proposals for workshops,
tutorials and panels. The deadline for submission of proposals for
**posters and demonstrations** has been extended to **19 May 2003**.

For detailed Guidelines on submission for all contributions, browse the Web
site or go directly to: http://www.ecdl2003.org/guidelines.htm

2. Conference topics
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The conference will include presentations and discussions about core
technical issues as well as applications in fields such as Education;
Libraries; Museums; Archives; Government; Health Care and Medicine; Digital
Earth/Geospatial; Law; Art and Music; Humanities; Culture; Social Sciences;
News and Current Affairs; Information Industry; Environmental Monitoring;
Natural Sciences; E-commerce.

Contribution topics include but are not limited to:

* General concepts, methods, standards, economics and strategies
* Collection building, management and integration
* Knowledge organization, discovery and retrieval
* Architectures and interoperability
* Mediation, user interaction and collaboration

These broad themes cover many more detailed issues.  See the Web site for
full information on conference topics.

3. Program Committee and Conference Chairs
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Program Chair: Traugott Koch, NetLab, Lund University, Sweden

Program Committee Members:

Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Daniel E. Atkins, University of Michigan, USA
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile
Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany
Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Alejandro Bia, University of Alicante, Spain
Katy Boerner, Indiana University, USA
Jose Borbinha, National Library of Portugal
Christine Borgman, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Svein Arne Brygfjeld, National Library of Norway
Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria
Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Gregory Crane, Tufts University, USA
Ron Daniel Jr., Taxonomy Strategies, USA
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC, USA
Martin Doerr, ICS FORTH, Greece
Matthew Dovey, Oxford University, UK
Jacques Ducloy, CNRS INIST, France
Dieter Fellner, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Michael Freeston, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Norbert Fuhr, Duisburg University, Germany
Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Stefan Gradmann, Hamburg University, Germany
Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library, Finland
Sigrun Klara Hannesdottir, National Library of Iceland
Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA
Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
Ole Husby, BIBSYS, Norway
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
Poul Henrik Joergensen, Portia System, Denmark
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
Stephen Katz, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland
Juergen Krause, IZ Bonn and University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany
Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, USA
Ray Larson, University of California Berkeley, USA
David Levy, University of Washington, USA
Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, USA
Michael Mabe, Elsevier Science, UK
Elena Maceviciute, Vilnius University, Lithuania and Swedish School
of Library and Information Science
Kingo Mchombu, University of Namibia
Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft-IPSI, Germany
Achim Osswald, University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Germany
Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Chris Rusbridge, University of Glasgow, UK
Hans Joerg Schek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Rudi Schmiede, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
Stuart Sutton, University of Washington, USA
Costantino Thanos, National Research Council, Italy
Elaine G. Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada
Doug Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Titia van der Werf, Leiden University, Netherlands
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC, USA
Stuart Weibel, OCLC, USA
Ian Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Irene Wormell, Swedish School of Library and Information Science

Conference Chairs:

General Chair
Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Program Chair
Traugott Koch
NetLab, Lund University, Sweden

Organization Chairs
Trond Aalberg
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Roger Midtstraum
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Demonstration Chairs
José Luis Borbinha
National Library of Portugal

Stuart Sutton
University of Washington, USA

Poster Chairs
Ragnar Nordlie
Oslo College, Norway

Linda Hill
University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Panel Chairs
Anders Ardö
Lund University, Sweden

Carol Peters
IEI-CNR, Italy

Workshop Chairs
Liz Lyon
University of Bath, UK

Christine Borgman
University of California Los Angeles, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Andreas Rauber
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Ronald Larsen
University of Pittsburg, USA

Publicity Chair
Lesly Huxley
ILRT, University of Bristol, UK

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Dr L Huxley FCIPD : lesly.huxley _at__ bristol.ac.uk
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~relh/
Research Director/Acting Institute Director
ECDL2003 Publicity Chair
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH, UK
Tel: +44 117 928 7196 Fax: +44 117 928 7112

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**ECDL 2003: Submissions now welcome up to 10 March 2003**

Programme Chair of ECDL 2003 (http://www.ecdl2003.org), the 
Seventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology 
for Digital Libraries, August 17-22, 2003, Trondheim, Norway 

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| TRAUGOTT KOCH, Senior librarian, Digital Library Scientist  
| NETLAB, Knowledge Technologies Group. Lund Univ. Libraries 
| P.O. Box 134.  S-221 00  Lund, Sweden                       
| Tel: int+46 46 2229233    Fax: int+46 46 2223682            
| E-mail: traugott.koch _at__ lub.lu.se                             
| Personal homepage: http://www.lub.lu.se/koch.html           
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