[ARSCLIST] First CfP: ECDL 2005 - Vienna / Austria

[Carl Rauch <rauch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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           *     CALL FOR PAPERS     *
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  ECDL European Conference on Digital Libraries

           ( http://www.ecdl2005.org )
      September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria

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Introduction:

ECDL 2005 is the 9th conference in the series of European Digital Library
conferences. ECDL has become the major European conference on digital
libraries, and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing
together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field.
ECDL 2005 is jointly organized by the Vienna University of Technology (VUT),
the Austrian National Library (ÖNB), and the Austrian Computer Society
(OCG). The conference will take place in the Vienna Technical University.


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Important dates:

Workshop Proposal Deadline:               January 28
Workshop Acceptance Notification:         February 27
Paper/Tutorial/Panel submission Deadline: March 1
Acceptance Notifications:                 May 15
Final version of Papers:                  June 3
Conference:                               September 18-23

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Topics:

Topics of contributions include (but are not limited to):

- Concepts of Digital Libraries and Digital Documents
- System Architectures, Integration and Interoperability
- Information Organization, Search and Usage
- User Studies and System Evaluation
- Digital Preservation
- Digital Library Applications

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Submissions:

Submissions are invited for full or short papers, posters, demonstrations,
panels, tutorials and workshops. All contributions will be reviewed by
members of the programm comitee. The proceedings of the conference will be
published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in
hard copy and electronic form.

The full text of papers is required at initial submission stage. Papers must
be submitted electronically via the submission web page. It is expected that
accepted papers are presented by an/the author at the conference. Details of
the submission guidelines will be published on the conference website at
http://www.ecdl2005.org.

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Organization Commitee:

General chair:
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Program Chairs:
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete , Greece

Poster & Demo Chairs:
Giuseppe Amato, Istituto di scienza e technologie dell'informazione
"A.Faedo" , Italy
Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University Brno , Czech

Workshop Chairs:
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde , United Kingdom
Dieter Merkl, University of Western Sydney , Australia

Panel Chairs:
László Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Hungary
Ed Fox, Virginia Tech University , United States of America

Tutorial Chairs:
Nozha Boujemaa, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA) , France
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics , Japan

Best Paper Award Chair:
Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer - IPSI, Germany

Publicity Chairs:
Julien Masanes, Bibliothèque nationale de France , France
Michael Bauer, Technische Universität München , Germany

Local Organizing Chairs:
Eugen Muehlvenzl, Austrian Computer Society , Austria
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library , Austria
Alexander Schatten, Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Carl Rauch, Vienna University of Technology , Austria