Subject: ECDL98 - Final Call For Papers

From: "Stavros A. Papadakis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:14:18 +0300 (EET DST)

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                           CALL for PAPERS

  Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for
                          Digital Libraries

      European       European          ICS-FORTH      University of
      Union          Research                         Crete
                     Consortium for
                     Informatics and
                     Mathematics

                       19 - 23 September, 1998
                       Heraklion, Crete, Greece

      http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL
      [email-masked]

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Be sure to check the following categories:
  Papers, Posters, Accepted Tutorials, Panels and Demos,
  Invited Speakers, Special Sessions
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- Objectives 

This conference is the second of a series of European conferences on research
and technology for digital libraries funded by the European Commission's TMR
Programme. Its objectives are: to bring together researchers from multiple
disciplines whose science relates to the development of digital libraries;
to provide an opportunity for these scientists to form a research community
in Europe specific to digital library development and to enable them to discuss
issues and strategies specific to the European context; to assist young
researchers in establishing relationships with senior scientists in their areas
of interest; to enable review and discussion of research under way in Europe,
the US, Japan and other countries on digital libraries; to stimulate
researchers, especially young scientists, to explore new areas of interest in
digital library development; to establish a forum for discussion of issues
specific to Europe such as interoperability, multilinguality, intellectual
property policy, and information commerce; to provide an opportunity for
researchers in the relevant enabling technologies and information sciences,
to discuss issues related to interoperability between world wide distributed
digital libraries. 

>From a technical point of view, the European Conferences series aims to
contribute to the definition of those digital library parameters which
especially influence issues of access, retrieval, and interaction with
information; to identify key problems which must be solved to make digital
library services an effective reality; to identify a general structure or
framework for integrating research and solutions; and to propose and encourage
specific, high priority research directions within such a framework.
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- Topics 

The conference organisers solicit papers on topics related to digital
libraries, including but not limited to the following list: 

 o Digital Library Models, Frameworks, and System Requirements 
 o Metadata 
 o System Integration and Architecture Issues 
 o Interoperability, Scalability 
 o Networked Information Discovery, Agent Technologies 
 o Information Retrieval, Organisation, Navigation - Tools and Paradigms 
 o Multilinguality 
 o Role of Knowledge Representation Systems in Digital Library Interactions 
 o Collecting, Capturing, Filtering, Cataloging, Indexing, 
 o Preserving 
 o Intellectual Property Rights, Terms and Conditions, Rights Management 
 o Authoring, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Commerce and
   Information Economies 
 o Economic and Social Implications and Issues 
 o User Interfaces 
 o Handling of Graphics, GIS, Medical Data, Multimedia Information,
   Experimental Data and
 o Scientific Models 
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- Conference Programme 

The conference will be held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Tutorials will be
organised on the 19th and 20th of September 1998 (for a list of accepted
tutorials please consult the relevant section below). The opening session will
take place at 9.00a.m. on Monday the 21th of September 1998 and the final
session will take place on Wednesday afternoon, the 23th of September 1998.
Full details on the scientific programme of the Conference will be published
on our Web site by the 1st of July 1998. 
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- Important Dates 

       15  May 1998     Papers and proposals for posters deadline
       25 June 1998     Notification of paper and poster acceptance 
        1 July 1998     Scientific Programme on the Web 
       25 July 1998     Final papers due 
   19,20 September 1998 Tutorials 
   21-23 September 1998 Conference 
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- Posters 

During the conference a space will be reserved for poster sessions. Research
projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts and
prototype systems. 

Poster proposals should include title, names of presenters and outline
(max. 500 words). Electronic submissions are obligatory; proposals should be
submitted by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat, [email-masked].
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- Papers 

- Submission Details

Papers (max 20 pages, double spaced) should be submitted electronically in HTML
format, either by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat, [email-masked],
or to our ftp site, ftp://ftp.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL.

In either case please follow the guidelines below:
 1. in your submission there should be exaclty one HTML file containing the
    paper text, suitable for review printing
 2. each figure (or other material except text) should be in a separate file
 3. all files consisting your paper should be gathered in a single file
    (zip or tar format)
 4. submit your paper (please note that electronic submissions are obligatory)
    either by e-mail or ftp
 5. send a separate e-mail message to [email-masked] containing the title,
    abstract, keywords for the paper and the relevant contact information.

- The deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 1998.

- Important Information
- Best papers will be proposed for publication in a special issue of the IJODL

The best papers of the conference will be proposed for publication (after a
new revision and refereeing process) in a special issue of the
              International Journal on Digital Libraries
  ( http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm )

- Accepted papers will be published by Springer

All accepted papers for the conference will be published by Springer. Upon 
selection of your paper you are also obliged to provide us another copy of
your paper, in LaTeX2e or MS Word format, following the guidelines provided
by Springer. The final date for the preparation of the accepted papers will
be July 15, 1998. Detailed information on preparing accepted papers for
publishing can be found at the Springer-Verlag web site, http://www.springer.de.
Please be sure to read the "Information for Authors"
         ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ),
as well as the new version of the "Authors's Instructions" (you may retrieve
this file in PDF format from
           http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf
or in Postscript format from
           http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps;
you may also retrieve all related files from our web site; information will be
available from our web pages shortly).
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- PANELS, TUTORIALS AND DEMOS

  Detailed information regarding tutorials, demos and panels can be found at
  the conference web page http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html.

  In brief, accepted tutorials for the conference are the following 
  (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html):
    1.  Standards for interfacing with a digital library
        by Larry Masinter
    2.  Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries
        by Dagobert Soergel
    3.  Visual Information System
        by Babu M. Mehtre
    4.  Multimedia Information Retrieval, categorisation, and filtering
        by Pasquale Savino and Fabrizio Sebastiani
    5.  Designing Content for the Web of Tomorrow,
        World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial
        by Bert Bos
    6.  Metadata on the Web: the Resource Description Framework (RDF),
        World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial
        by Janne Saarela
    7.  Metadata for Networked Resources
        by Renato Iannella, Carl Lagoze and Stuart Weibel

  A tutorial registration form will be available shortly from our web pages.

  Accepted panels for the conference
  (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/panels.html):
    1.  Interaction Design in Digital Libraries
        Panelists: Constantine Stephanidis, David Benyon, Mark Maybury,
                   Daniel Dardailler, Dan Diaper 
    2.  Digital Video Libraries: Providing Access to the Moving Image
        Panelists: Richard Paterson, Rachel Hughes, Robin Wright, Bruce Tonkin
    3.  Digital Library Technologies in Health Care
        Panel Coordinator: Prof. Stelios Orphanoudakis
    4.  Architectures and services for cultural heritage information
        Panel Coordinator: Panos Constantopoulos
    5.  Metadata and content-based approaches to resource discovery
        Panel Organizers: Thomas Baker and Judith Klavans 

  Accepted demos for the conference
  (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/demos.html):
    1.  Liberation
        by Robert Stubenrauch
    2.  Aquarelle
        by Vassilis Christophides
    3.  Aontas: The CaberNet Technical Report and Abstracts Service
        by Frank Siqueira
    4.  The Low-Cost Digital Library
        by Philip Konomos
    5.  Multilingual Informedia: A Demonstration of Speech Recognition and
        Information Retrieval across Multiple Languages
        by Howard Wactlar
    6.  ARHON: A Multimedia Database Design for Image Documents
        by Kostas Chandrinos
    7.  Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) Digital Library System
        by Hideki Sunahara
    8.  The Document Management System SAROS/Mezzanine
        by Norbert Lossau
    9.  Unicode-based Digital Library Interface
        by Sarantos Kapidakis
    10. ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library
        by Stefania Biagioni
    11. CiBIT: Biblioteca Telematica Italiana. A Digital Library for the
        Italian Cultural Heritage
        by Eugenio Picchi
    12. INTEX: Searching Information in Full Text
        by Maurice Gross
    13. Calliope: an experiment in Digital Libraries
        by Catherine Alauzun
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- Invited Speakers
  http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html#speakers

  * Dr. Donald F. Ferguson 
      Senior Manager IBM T.J Watson Reseach Center, 
      IBM Academy, USA 
        Software Systems and Middleware for Information Economies and
        Digital Libraries

  * Dr. James J. O'Donnell 
      Professor of classical studies,
      Vice Provost for Computing
      University of Pennsylvania, USA
        The Digital Library in the University: How We Use it 

  * Dr. Amy Friedlander 
      CNRI, Editor of the D-Lib Magazine 
    Dr. William Y. Arms 
      CNRI, Publisher of the D-Lib Magazine
        Publishing at the Speed of Web-Light; Experiences from D-Lib Magazine

  * Mark T. Maybury 
      Advanced Information Systems Center, The MITRE Corporation 
        Intelligent Multimedia Information Access
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- Special Sessions
  http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html#sessions

  A special session on "Digital Library Technologies for Libraries" will be 
  held during the conference. Detailed information can be found at the 
  conference web site.

  Session organiser: Ann Okerson
  Speakers: Diann Rusch-Feja, John Price-Wilkin, Chris Rusbridge 
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- Proceedings 

The Proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in their Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series and will be distributed at the Conference. 
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- Fellowship for Young Researchers 

A limited number of fellowships for the Conference and also for Tutorials are
available for young researchers who are citizens of European Union countries or
Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland. The fellowship offers free registration for
the participants and, in special cases where necessary and appropriately
justified, may pay for or reimburse travel and lodging expenses. 
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- Programme Chair 

    Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH 
    Leoforos Knossou, GR-71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 
    Tel: +30 81 393199, 
    Fax: +30 81 210106 
    E-mail: [email-masked] 
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- Programme Committee 

    Serge Abiteboul          INRIA, France 
    Robert B. Allen          Bellcore, USA 
    Thomas Baker             Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand 
    William Birmingham       University of Michigan, USA 
    Panos Constantopoulos    University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece 
    Bruce Croft              University of Massachusetts, USA 
    Costis Dallas            Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece 
    Edward A. Fox            Virginia Technical University, USA 
    Norbert Fuhr             University of Dortmund, Germany 
    Hector Garcia-Molina     Stanford University, USA 
    Keith Jeffery            RAL-CLRC, UK 
    Martin Kersten           CWI, Netherlands 
    Judith Klavans           Columbia University, USA 
    Carl Lagoze              Cornell University, USA 
    Clifford A. Lynch        Coalition for Networked Information, USA 
    Jeff MacKie-Mason        University of Michigan, USA 
    A. Desai Narasimhalu     National University of Singapore, Singapore 
    Ann Okerson              Yale University, USA 
    Olle Olsson              SICS, Sweden 
    Andreas Paepcke          Stanford University, USA 
    Nicholas Patrikalakis    MIT, USA 
    Carol Peters             IEI-CNR, Italy 
    Jakka Sairamesh          IBM-T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
    Peter Schauble           ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
    Hans Joerg Schek         ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
    Eric Simon               INRIA, France 
    Ingeborg T. Solvberg     University of Science and Technology, Norway 
    Constantine Stephanidis  ICS-FORTH, Greece 
    Shigeo Sugimoto          University of Library and Information Science,Japan
    Costantino Thanos        IEI-CNR, Italy 
    Ulrich Thiel             GMD-IPSI, Germany 
    Stuart Weibel            OCLC, USA 
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- Local Organising Committee 

    Sarantos Kapidakis       ICS-FORTH, Greece 
    Penelope Constanta       ICS-FORTH, Greece 
    Spyros Lalis             University of Crete, Greece 
    Gioylh Koraoy            University of Crete, Greece
    Stella Vourou            University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece
    Mixalhs Tzekakhs         University of Crete, Greece
    Maria Stavrakaki         University of Crete, Greece
    Rena Kalaitzaki          University of Crete, Greece
    Maria Prevelianaki       ICS-FORTH, Greece
    Liana Kefalaki           ICS-FORTH, Greece
    Dimitris Papadakis       University of Crete, Greece
    Manolis Marazakis        University of Crete, Greece
    Anastasia Anastasiadi    ICS-FORTH, Greece
    Stavros Papadakis        University of Crete, Greece
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- Contact Info 

For more information regarding this conference contact the conference
secretariat, 

    Rena Kalaitzaki and Maria Stavrakaki
    University of Crete, 
    Computer Science Department, 
    Tel: +30 81 393504 
    Fax: +30 81 393501 
    E-mail: [email-masked] 
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