Updates:
1. New extended deadline for paper submissions
2.
New special track on European digital libraries initiatives
3. Keynotes and
invited talks
Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been
extended to 2 July 2007.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 10th International Conference on Asian
Digital Libraries (ICADL 2007)
10-13 December 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam
"Asian Digital Libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New
Frontiers"
The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL)
is one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries research.
ICADL 2007 will provide a forum for sharing ideas, research results and
experiences in digital libraries, related technologies and associated practical
and social issues. Participants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged.
Previous conferences have included practitioners, researchers, educators and
policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science/information
technology, library and information sciences, archival and museum studies,
knowledge management, and many areas in the social sciences and
humanities.
Into its tenth year, the theme of ICADL 2007 will be "Asian Digital
libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers". In line with
this theme, we are soliciting papers that examine the history and development of
digital libraries, especially projects in the Asian region, as well as papers
that discuss future developments and cutting-edge technologies in digital
libraries. Submissions focusing on other digital library areas are also welcome
and may include research, system, evaluation, policy and position papers. Topics
include but are not limited to:
* digital library infrastructure and architecture
* information
retrieval, filtering and extraction
* data/text/Web mining
* text
summarizationa
* multilingual information processing
* interoperability
issues
* open source tools and frameworks for digital libraries
* mobile
services
* human-computer interaction
* user interfaces and
visualization
* user communities
* social media/Web 2.0 technologies
*
metadata and cataloging
* taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web
*
digital preservation
* digital archives and museums
* knowledge management
* social, institutional, and policy issues
* e-government
* use and
impact
* security and privacy
* intellectual property
* pedagogical
issues
* case studies
* innovative applications
* future trends
NEW SPECIAL TRACK: EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVES
In addition, ICADL 2007 has partnered with the Conference of
European National Librarians (CENL) and The European Library (TEL) to organize a
special track on European digital libraries initiatives. We welcome papers that
discuss experiences and projects that promote collaboration between Europe and
Asia. Specific topics include those listed above as well as strategic, political
and interoperability issues in language and standards.
When submitting papers to this special track, please specify
"Special track: European DL initiatives" in the topic list of the paper
submission system in addition to the other relevant topics.
Maristella Agosti of the University of Padova and Jill Cousins of
The European Library will be invited speakers in this special track.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Both full papers and short papers will be accepted. Papers must be
in English with a limit of 10 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short
papers. Electronic submission will be used and the accepted file format is Adobe
Acrobat PDF.
All papers must be original contributions and not previously
published nor currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Conference proceedings will be published as part of Springer Verlag's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions must therefore conform to
the LNCS formatting instructions. Please refer to the conference Web site for
more details.
These instructions also apply to papers submitted to the special
track on European Digital Libraries Initiatives.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full and short papers: 2 July 2007
Submission of
papers to the special track on European Digital Libraries Initiatives: 2 July
2007
Notification of acceptance: 20 August 2007
Camera-ready copy due: 10
September 2007
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED TALKS
Maristella Agosti, University of Padova
Jill Cousins, The
European Library
Clara Chu, University of California Los Angeles
Kristine
Hanna, Internet Archives
Gordon Mohr, Internet Archives
Bjørn Olstad,
FAST
More details will be available soon on the conference Web
site.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
ICADL 2007 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and is jointly hosted by
the National Center for Scientific & Technological Information (NACESTI),
the National Library of Vietnam (NLV), General Science Library of Hochiminh City
(GSL), the Library & Information Center of the Vietnam National University
Hanoi (LIC/VNUH), Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), Vietnam Association on
Scientific and Technological Information & Documentation (VASTID), Vietnam
Library Association (VLA), Vietnam Association for Information Processing
(VAIP), and other organizations.
ICADL 2007 is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology
(MOST), Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI), Ministry of Education and
Training (MOET) of Vietnam.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Ta Ba Hung (National Center for Scientific and
Technological Information, Vietnam)
Vice Chair
Cao Minh Kiem (National Center for Scientific and
Technological Information, Vietnam)
Program Co-Chairs
Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Tru Cao (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology,
Vietnam)
Ingeborg Sølvberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Tutorial Chair
Yin-Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Publication Co-Chairs
Chu Keong Lee (Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore)
Nguyen Tien Duc (National Center for Scientific and
Technological Information, Vietnam)
Publicity Co-Chairs
Cao Minh Kiem (National Center for
Scientific and Technological Information, Vietnam)
Quan Thanh Tho (Ho Chi
Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam)
Finance Chair
Tran Thu Lan (National Center for Scientific and
Technological Information, Vietnam)
Local Arrangements Chair
Phung Minh Lai (National Center for
Scientific and Technological Information, Vietnam)
Steering Committee Chair
Ee Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore)
CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about ICADL 2007, please contact:
Tran Thu Lan
Nation
al Centre for Scientific and Technological
Information
24 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi, VIETNAM
Tel.: +84-4-8246329
Fax:
+84-4-9349127.
Email: vista.gov.vn">tlan
vista.gov.vn
