VLDL2009 CFP - Submission deadline extension
From: Vittore Casarosa <casarosa_at_isti.cnr.it>
Dear Colleagues,
Due to many requests, the submission deadline of VLDL has been
postponed to 6th of July 2009.
Best regards,
VLDL2009 Workshop Organizers
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Second Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Second Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
Corfu, Greece, October 1-2, 2009
Sponsored by DELOS association
Web site: http://www.delos.info/vldl2009
E-mail: vldl2009_at_isti.cnr.it
In conjunction with ECDL 2009
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###### Workshop Objectives ######
The implementation of nowadays Digital Libraries is more
demanding than in the past. Information consumers are facing with
the need to access ever growing, heterogeneous, possibly
federated Information Spaces while information providers are
interested in satisfying such needs by sharing rich and organised
views over their 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
“Very Large 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.
Interestingly, however, there is no clear and well-accepted
definition of Very Large Digital Library (VLDL). Some, in an
attempt to give one, blur the separation between Very Large
Databases (VLDBs) and VLDLs and regard the latter as VLDBs
storing Digital Library content. Since in databases the adjective
“Very large” strictly refers to “size of content”, the
implication is that, similarly, VLDLs ought to be DLs storing
digital content beyond a given storage threshold. Despite being
intuitively correct, this explanation does not fully satisfy DL
practitioners. Indeed, DL content design paradigms cannot be
conceptually separated by the relative functionalities as it
happens for DBs. DLs are of use to peculiar user communities
whose functionality needs, best practices and behaviour are
well-accepted DL systems requirements. As captured by the DELOS
reference model for DLs, user management, content management,
functionality management, and policies are equally important in
the definition of a DL. Accordingly, as demonstrated by real DL
system experiences, VLDLs should be described as DLs featuring
“very large features” in one or more of such aspects.
The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers,
practitioners and application developers with a forum fostering a
constructive exchange among all key actors in the field of Very
Large Digital Libraries. The workshop will also be the
opportunity to answer the open questions that had arisen during
VLDL first successful edition at ECDL 2008 (ref. VLDL2008
Workshop Report, published in SIGMOD Records 2009).
###### Workshop topics ######
Topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to,
the following research avenues:
Foundational topics
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Definitional models, for VLDL content, functionality, users, and
policies (DELOS reference model):
- Architectural models for VLDL systems;
- Data models for VLDL content;
- Design methodologies for VLDLs.
System topics
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Ideas, experiments and practical experiences in system design and
implementation:
- Integration and federation of existing DLs;
- User management in VLDLs;
- Security issues in VLDLs;
- Sustainability issues in VLDLs;
- Scalability issues in VLDLs;
- Distribution issues for VLDLs;
- Interoperability issues for VLDL content and functionalities;
- Quality of Service measures and operation of VLDLs;
- Storing and indexing issues in VLDL content;
- Preservation issues for VLDL content.
###### Important Dates ######
Paper submission deadline: July 6th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2009
Submission of camera-ready papers: September 6, 2009
###### Paper Submission ######
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.
Submitted manuscripts will have to be limited to 8 pages,
following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by
Springer. Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Papers
should be submitted via email to vldl2009_at_isti.cnr.it. Papers
submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process by
Program Committee members. For every accepted contribution, at
least one author will be required to attend the workshop and
present the paper. Accepted papers will be published as a volume
in the DELOS workshop proceedings series (ISBN), which will also
be made available in the DELOS digital library.
###### Workshop Organisers ######
- Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Informatics, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece;
- Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Pisa,
Italy;
- Pasquale Pagano, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Pisa,
Italy.
###### Program Committee ######
- Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
(MUSIC/TUC), Greece;
- Stefan Gradmann, Institut für Bibliotheks und
Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany;
- Kate 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, Israel;
- Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics,
The Netherlands.
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Vittore Casarosa E-mail: casarosa_at_isti.cnr.it
ISTI - CNR Phone : +39-050-315 3115
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