CDL: ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum, call for papers

From: John P. Abbott <AbbottJP_at_appstate.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:22:15 -0400
To: Colldv-l <colldv-l_at_usc.edu>

From: Milena Dobreva <dobreva_at_ufal.mff.cuni.cz>

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***


ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture
10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
14 to 16 June 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria)

http://www.elpub.net  <elpub2006@elpub.net>

*** Deadlines for submission in all categories: November 21st 2005 ***


The ELPUB 2006 conference will keep the tradition of the nine previous
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United
Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia 
(2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil (2004) and 
Belgium(2005), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, 
librarians, developers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users 
and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in 
widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, 
economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant 
aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses.

Three distinguished features of this conference are: broad scope of 
topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and 
learning about various aspects of electronic publishing;  combination 
of general and technical tracks; and a condensed procedure of 
submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees 
presentations of most recent work.

ELPUB 2006 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, 
tutorials, panel debates etc. Thus, the conference attendees will 
benefit from:

         -   The communication of scientific papers specially 
prepared 		for the conference;
             all papers are to be reviewed and accepted by the
	international ELPUB Programme Committee;
         -   Workshops and tutorials that aim to provide 
opportunity 		for attendants to update themselves in
              topics of high interest within this community of experts;
         -   Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas
	presented and discussed
             during the presentation of the conference papers;
         -   Panel debates on selected topics; possible topics 
include 		news item publishing
              or new methods, including Open Access, for publishing
	scientific literature;
         -   Demonstration sessions and presentation of posters.

Contributions

ELPUB 2006 invites contributions for papers, tutorials, workshops, 
posters and demonstrations on the following topics:

GENERAL TRACK

*        Publishing models, tools, services and roles
*   	Digital content chain / publication cycle
*      	Open Access
*    	Metadata use and interoperability
*      	Semantic web
*   	Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
* 	Digital libraries for different user communities
*       Interactive TV
* 	Electronic publishing for impaired users
*       Security, privacy and copyright issues
* 	Digital preservation and access
*        Electronic publishing in eLearning applications
*        Economic dimensions of electronic publishing


TECHNICAL TRACK

*    	XML applications
*       Metadata encoding process (MHP/OAI, RDF, etc.)
* 	Open source tools
*      Content search, analysis and retrieval
*       Interoperability and scalability
*       Textual and graphical information sources (SVG)
*        Ontologies and classification
*  	Electronic publishing for mobile services
*      Security, preservation, quality assurance
*      Recommendations, guidelines, standards


Please, note that the list of topics is not exhaustive. Therefore,
submissions on any topic within the overall conference theme will be
considered.
AUTHOR GUIDELINES:
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
     	- Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
     	- Tutorial (abstract max of 1500 words)
	- Workshop (abstract max of 1500 words)
	- Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
     	- Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)
Deadlines for submission in all categories: November 21st 2005

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the 
conference website (http://www.elpub.net). The Programme Committee 
will notify the authors of the acceptance of submitted papers by 
January 15, 2006. Authors then will have to submit their full papers 
by March 1st, 2006, following specific instructions. The conference 
proceedings will be published as a book by the International Journal 
'Information Theories and Applications'.  Selected papers will be 
published in the journal. Posters (total surface
app. 1m2) and demonstration materials must be brought by their authors 
at the conference time and only abstracts will be published in the 
conference proceedings. Workshops and tutorials proposals will be 
discussed with submitters in due course.

Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at:
http://elpub.scix.net

Conference Location: A scenic resort in the Pirin Mountain area, which 
is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Conference Host: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the 
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

General Chair: Milena Dobreva, Institute for Mathematics and 
Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria

Programme Chair: Bob Martens, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna,
Austria
Received on Tue Aug 30 2005 - 14:22:02 EDT