[KATALIST] ecdl2007 call for participation

[Zsivnovszki Magdolna]

2007. szeptember 16-21. között Budapesten kerül megrendezésre a 11. ECDL 
konferencia - 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced 
Technology for Digital Libraries - az MTA SZTAKI szervezésében.

Az ECDL2007 nemzetközi konferencia digitális könyvtári kutatások és 
technológia fejlesztések legújabb eredményeit valamint gyakorlati 
alkalmazásait mutatja be. A konferencia Európában a tématerület 
legnagyobb seregszemléje.

Elősegíti a különféle, de kapcsolódó tudományágakban dolgozó kutatók, 
fejlesztők és felhasználók  együttműködését, az integrációt, a kutatási 
eredmények terjesztését, ebben az évben különös hangsúlyt fektetve a 
"bárhonnan elérhető" (ubiquitous) digitális könyvtárak gondolat körére, 
valamint a digitális tartalmak hosszútávú megőrzésének tudományos 
problémáira.

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ECDL 2007

11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital 
Libraries

September 16-21, 2007, Budapest, Hungary

http://www.ecdl2007.org

CALL for PARTICIPATION

This unique and well-established series brings together researchers, 
developers and practitioners working in various disciplines and related 
areas of digital libraries all over the world, providing a meeting point 
for the library, Web and DL communities. The conference will consist of 
a three days technical program, preceded by a tutorial day and followed 
by workshops. The technical program will include refereed paper 
presentations, plenary sessions, panels and poster sessions.

ECDL 2007 will be devoted to discussions about hot issues and 
applications and will primarily provide a forum to reinforce the 
collaboration of researchers and practitioners in the following topics: 
Ontologies, Digital libraries and the Web, Models, Multimedia and 
Multilingual Digital Libraries, Grid and Peer-to-Peer, Preservation, 
User Interfaces, Document Linking, Information Retrieval, Personal 
Information Management, New DL Applications,
and User Studies.

The keynote talk by Prof. Seamus Ross (Humanities Computing & 
Information Management (HATII), University of Glasgow) will address the 
questions of preservation, while the keynote talk by Prof. Arne Solvgerg 
(Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University 
of Science and Technology (NTNU)) will focus on WiFi-Trondheim - an 
experiment in providing Broadband Everywhere for All.

Panels will address timely and important topics, namely, experiences of 
DL projects in panel „On the move towards the European Digital Library:
BRICKS, TEL, MICHAEL and DELOS converging experiences” in synergy with 
the European Commission`s initiatives and the special challenges of 
digital library research and development in the host region of the 
conference in panel „Digital Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe: 
Infrastructure Challenges for the New Europe”

The corresponding tutorials will provide further in-depth looks at areas 
of current interest, including Thesauri and Ontologies, DL Education, 
Large Scale Digital Library Infrastructures, Sharing Content, Services 
and Computing Resources.

The Workshops, covering wide areas of interest, to be held in 
conjunction with ECDL2007, on September 20-21, are still open for 
contributions.

* CLEF 2007 - Cross language Evaluation Forum

* Workshop on “Foundations of Digital Libraries”

* DLSci 2007 - Digital Library Goes e-Science

* LADL 2007 - Cross-Media and Personalized Learning Applications on top 
of Digital Libraries

* Curriculum Development in Digital Libraries: An Exercise in Developing 
Lesson Plans

* Towards an European repository ecology: conceptualising interactions 
between networks of repositories and services

* Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services

* Libraries in the Digital Age: What If …?

Registration and program details are available at http://www.ecdl2007.org

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Venue
Budapest, one of the most beautiful historical capitals in Europe, is 
situated on the banks of the Danube. Buda lies in the hills on the 
western bank, famous for its historic Castle Hill and beautiful 
residential area, and bustling Pest with its shopping, government and 
commercial districts lies on the flat plain of the east bank.

The architectural beauty with its monuments from neo-classic through 
baroque to eclectic art nouveau is prevalent in the city. Budapest is 
also world famousfor its artistic abundance of concerts, operas, 
recitals, galas and exhibitions.

The Europa Congress Center, the conference site, providing a modern 
plenary room and several session rooms with state-of-the-art technology, 
will be a unique venue to organize the event.

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Organization Committee

General Chair: Dr. Laszlo Kovacs, Department of Distributed Systems, 
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences, Hungary

Programme Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr, Information Systems Faculty 
of Engineering Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Programme Co-Chair: Dr. Carlo Meghini, Consiglio Nazionale delle 
Ricerche Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy

Local Arrangements Chair: Dr. Gusztav Hencsey, Computer and Automation 
Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Workshops Chairs:
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, State and University Library, Denmark

Poster & Demo Chairs:
Dr. Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Germany
José Borbinha, DEI/IST/UTL and INESC-ID, Portugal

Tutorials Chair:
Rudi Schmiede, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Publicity and Exhibit Chairs:
Yuzuru Tanaka for Asia, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Japan
Jane Hunter for Australia, School of ITEE, Australia
Hussein Suleman for Africa, University of Cape Town, South-Africa

Panel Chairs:
Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech / Dept of Computer Science, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Tiziana Catarci, University of Roma 1, Italy
Nicolas Spyratos, University de Paris-Sud, France

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