[InetBib] [CfP] ECDL 2006

[Günter Mühlberger <guenter.muehlberger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Liebe KollegInnen,

ich moechte Sie auf den Call für Proposal fuer die ECDL2006 in Alicante 
aufmerksam machen. Die ECDL wendet sich an alle die - ob als Forscher,
Bibliothekare oder Projektmanager - einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung der
digitalen Bibliothek leisten.

Konferenzprogramm und Anmeldeformular finden Sie unter:

http://www.ecdl2006.org/

Unten leite ich Ihnen den offiziellen Einladungstext zur Konferenz weiter.

Mit den besten Gruessen,

Guenter Muehlberger


EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL
LIBRARIES
                "Towards the European Digital Library"
                         http://www.ecdl2006.org

                        CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The 10th ECDL will be held in Alicante (Spain) in September 2006.
Papers are invited on substantial, original and completed research,
applications and development that have not previously been presented
elsewhere and that make new contributions to all aspects of Digital 
Libraries, including,
but not limited to:
    * Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content.
    * Collection building, management and integration.
    * System architectures, integration and interoperability.
    * Information organization, search and usage.
    * Multilingual information access and multimedia content management.
    * User interfaces for digital libraries.
    * User studies and system evaluation.
    * Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical 
and 		legal issues.
    * Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning, 			 
e-government, cultural heritage, etc.

               CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS

Submissions (upto 12 pages) via the ECDL2005 Conference Management 
System must follow the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by 
Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Posters and demos will undergo a simplified review process, based on the
submitted papers, and will be directly accepted or rejected.

                      CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Workshops: proposals are invited for one- or two-day workshops (Thursday
September 21s, Friday September 22nd).
Panels: proposal should address controversial subjects of interest to a
large community of ECDL participants.
Tutorials: tutorials are intended to present a topic in detail over
either a half-day or a full day (Sunday September 17th).
Doctoral consortium: doctoral students (based on an acceptance of a
written abstract) will have the opportunity to discuss their proposal
with experienced researchers on Sunday September 17th.

                        IMPORTANT DATES

    * January 27
      Workshop proposal deadline
    * February 24
      Workshop acceptance notification
    * March 3
      Paper/Tutorial/Panel submission deadline
    * April 3
      Doctoral consortium submission deadline
    * April 22
      Acceptance notification for tutorials
    * May 15
      Acceptance notifications for papers/poster/demos/doctoral 		 
consortium
    * June 2
      Final version of papers/poster/demos/doctoral consortium
    * July 15
      End of early registration
    * September 17-22
      Conference

Additional information about submissions can be found at the conference
website.

                        ORGANIZATION

    * General Chair
      Felisa Verdejo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a 
Distancia, 			Spain)
    * Program Chairs
      Costantino Thanos (CNR, Italy) and Julio Gonzalo (Universidad
        Nacional de
      Educación a Distancia, Spain)
    * Organization chair
      Rafael C. Carrasco (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
    * Workshops chairs
      Donatella Castelli (CNR, Italy) and José Luis Vicedo 
(Universidad 		de Alicante, Spain)
    * Poster & demo chair
      Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
    * Panel chairs
      Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) and Liz
        Lyon (UKOLN, UK)
    * Tutorial Chairs
      Ingeborg Solvberg(Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
	Norway) and Marcos Andre Gonçalves (Federal University of Minas 	 
Gerais, Brazil)
    * Publicity and exhibits chair
      Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy), Tamara Sumner
      (Universtity of Colorado at Boulder, USA) and Shigeo Sugimoto 		 
(University of Tsukuba, Japan).
    * Doctoral Consortium Chairs
      Jose Borbinha (IST, Lisbon Technical Universtity, Portugal) and
        Lillian Cassel (Villanova University, USA)

 e-mail: office@xxxxxxxxxxxx

--
Günter Mühlberger, Ph.D.
Department for Digitisation and Digital Preservation
University Innsbruck Library
6020 Innsbruck - Innrain 52 - Austria
Phone: ++43-(0)512-507-8454
Fax: ++43-(0)512-507-9842
Email: <guenter.muehlberger@xxxxxxxxxx>
URL: http://www2.uibk.ac.at/ub/dea/