Extended deadline for Very Large Digital Libraries 2008 Workshop -
ECDL2008 Aarhus, Denmark
From: Paolo Manghi <paolo.manghi_at_isti.cnr.it>
Apologies for any cross-postings
Dear Colleagues,
At the request of a number of potential contributors, the VLDL2008
Organizing Committee has decided to extend the deadline of paper
submission to the 8th of July, 2008.
Best regards,
VLDL2008 Organizing Committee
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First Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
CALL FOR PAPERS
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First Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
Aarhus, Denmark, September 19, 2008
In conjunction with ECDL 200
http://www.delos.info/vldl2008
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Workshop Objectives
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In today’s information society the demand for Digital Libraries is
changing.
The implementation of nowadays Digital Libraries is more demanding
than in the
past. Information consumers are facing with the need to have access to
an ever
growing and heterogeneous information space while information
providers are
interested in satisfying such needs by providing rich and organised views
over such information deluge. Because of their fundamental role of
information
production and dissemination vehicle, Digital Libraries are also
expected to
provide information society with services that must be available 24/7 and
guarantee the expected quality of service.
This scenario leads to the development of “Large-Scale Digital
Libraries” in
terms of number of Information Objects and Collections to be made
available,
users to be served and potentially distributed resources needed to
implement
such systems. Such systems have to confront with new challenges in a
context
having scalability, interoperability and sustainability as focal points.
The need for concrete solutions can be seen also in the substantial
amount of
resources invested by the European Union towards the creation of a
unifying
European Information Space, starting with DELOS, BRICKS, DILIGENT and
DRIVER
in the past, and continuing with D4Science (a DILIGENT follow on),
DRIVER-II,
CLARIN, SAPIR and finally with the European Digital Library, a major
effort
to build a European-scale digital library to make available to
everybody the
rich cultural assets of the whole Europe.
New approaches and technologies have been devised to appropriately tackle
the various matters arising in deploying large-scale Digital Library
systems.
The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers, practitioners and
application developers with a forum fostering a constructive exchange
among
all of such key actors.
Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Service Architectures/Infrastructures for large-scale DL systems
- Experiences in building and operating large-scale DL systems
- Integration and Federation of existing DL systems
- Building and Managing Distributed Information Spaces
- Sustainability methodologies in large-scale DLs
- Scalability management in large-scale DLs
- Interoperability techniques in large-scale DLs
- Quality of Service methodologies in large-scale DLs
- Data management in large-scale DLs
- Organisational models for large-scale Digital Libraries
Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.
Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages, following the guidelines
for the LNCS format provided by Springer:
(http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?
SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=45515&CENTER_ID=73062).
Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Papers should be submitted
electronically via email to vldl2008_at_isti.cnr.it.
Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process.
Accepted papers will be published in the DELOS workshop proceedings, which
will also be made available in the DELOS digital library. For every
accepted
paper, at least one author is required to attend the workshop and
present the
paper. Depending upon the quantity and quality of the submissions,
efforts to
coordinate follow-on publications may be made, involving extended
versions of
some of the accepted papers.
Important Dates
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- Paper submission deadline (postponed): July 8th, 2008
- Acceptance notification (postponed): July 31, 2008
- Camera ready: September 3, 2008
- Workshop: September 19, 2008
Program Committee
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- Stefan Gradman, Institut für Bibliotheks und
Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Kat Hagedorn, OAIster System, University of Michigan Digital Library
Production Service, USA
- Dean B. Krafft, National Science Digital Library Project, Cornell
Information Science, USA
- Yosi Mass, IBM Research Division, Haifa Research Laboratory,
University Campus, Haifa
- Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Informatics, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, The
Netherlands
Organizers
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- Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Pasquale Pagano, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Pavel Zezula, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Republic
For any inquiries, please contact the organizers at vldl2008_at_isti.cnr.it
Received on Tue Jul 01 2008 - 01:32:54 EDT