[InetBib] TPDL'2016 Int'l Conf. on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, September 5-9, 2016 Hannover, Germany

[Thomas Risse <risse@xxxxxx>]

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Call for Participation
TPDL 2016 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital 
Libraries
"Overcoming the Limits of Digital Archives"

5-9 September 2016
Hannover, Germany

Early Registration Deadline: July 31, 2016

http://www.tpdl2016.org/
Twitter: @TPDL2016
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The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 
(TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that 
brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in 
the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2016 will take place in Hannover, 
Germany on September 5-9, 2016. The conference will be jointly organized 
by the L3S Research Center and the German National Library of Science 
and Technology (TIB). Conference Patron is the Prime Minister of the 
federal state of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil.

Aims and scope
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Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or 
transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, 
cultural, and governmental and industry activities. For this purpose the 
digital libraries community has developed long-term and 
interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such 
as development of Digital Libraries, solving practical problems, 
accommodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user 
communities.
The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information 
with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. 
Information providers interlink their metadata with user contributed 
data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of 
data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation 
challenges.
TPDL 2016 introduces specialized tracks on Digital Humanities and 
e-Infrastructures to stimulate the discussions across different 
communities. Specialized tracks focus on topics that have a specific 
community interest but are related to digital libraries and archives.

Keynote Talks
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- "Pretty Things Done with (Electronic) Texts: Why We Need Full-Text 
Access", Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- "Metaphors All the Way Down: The many practical uses of figurative 
language understanding", Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland
- "Mozart's Laptop: Implications for Creativity in Multimedia Digital 
Libraries and Beyond", David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, and 
Director of the New Zealand Digital Library Research Project

Panels
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- "Specialized Information Services - Hype or Important Change in 
Library Culture?"
- "Digital Humanities and eInfrastructures"
- "Why Societies need (digital) libraries"

Tutorials
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TPDL 2016 presents the tutorials as sessions within the main part of the 
conference:
- "Introduction to Fedora 4", David Wilcox, DuraSpace
- "Building Digital Library Collections with Greenstone 3", David 
Bainbridge, University of Waikato
- "Text mining workflows for indexing archives with automatically 
extracted semantic metadata", Riza Batista-Navarro & Axel Soto, 
University of Manchester

Workshops
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- Videos in digital libraries: What's in it for libraries, publishers 
and scientists?
- 15th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)
- 1st International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science (RepScience2016)

Accepted Papers
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A list of the accepted papers can be found here:
http://www.tpdl2016.org/papers

Venue
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TPDL 2016 will be held in the Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC), Hannover, 
Germany.

Special hotel rates are available in the "Hotel am Stadtpark".
http://www.tpdl2016.org/hotel

About Hannover
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Hannover is a pleasant, medium-sized city (516.000 inhabitants) in the 
northern part of Germany. The city is famous for its fairs, most 
importantly the annual CeBIT fair at which the latest technologies are 
presented. In 2000 the World Fair (Expo 2000) took place in Hannover. 
Historically, the city boasts to be the root of the Hanover line of the 
English royal family. At first sight, Hannover is a modest 
non-spectacular city; however, the city has many hidden beauties, 
including the historical Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, the new and old 
City Halls and the Eilenriede - Europe's largest city forest.

More information can be found in the TPDL 2016 Web page: 
http://www.tpdl2016.org/

Early Registration Deadline: July 31, 2016