*********** Call for Papers *********** ECDL 2001 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries September 4-8 2001, Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ecdl2001.org TUTORIALS : September 4 2001 CONFERENCE : September 5-7 2001 WORKSHOPS : September 8 2001 IMPORTANT DATES: April 1, 2001 : Deadline for ALL the proposals May 21, 2001 : Notification of acceptance June 20, 2001 : Camera ready papers from the authors ECDL is the 5th in the annual European Digital Libraries conferences. This gives a good opportunity to review the impact Digital Libraries have on science, technology, and society in general. In this perspective the conference will emphasise applications of Digital Library systems and their integration in the user communities. Future perspectives, such as the convergence of libraries, museums, and archives into Collective Memories, will be discussed. The scientific program includes: * Submitted scientific papers, including short papers and submitted poster presentations. * Presentations of prototypes, operational systems, and associated use experiences. * Invited papers and panel discussions. THE FOCUS OF ECDL 2001: LIBRARIES; MUSEUMS; ARCHIVES - convergence in the digital world? This focus will explore the on-going convergence of libraries, archives, and museums into integrated digital information spaces on science, art, and history. Contributions may discuss: * How to organise these spaces and how to help people to find their way in them. * The chances and limitations of blurring the roles of people involved - are they visitors, users, librarians, archivists, researchers? * The roles of real artefacts and of their digital counterparts. Will digital images replace or enhance physical objects? COLLABORATION IN INFORMATION SPACES. Future forms of collaboration in information spaces can be discussed under various scenarios: * Scientific research on and annotation of rare and fragile objects can be combined with the curiosity of interested lay persons. * Digital objects allow "hands on" experience that is not possible with the real artefacts. * Diverse interpretations and views now spread over various publications can be documented and brought together. COLLECTIVE MEMORY - A global institution? Global availability of digital Collective Memories makes the physical location of Libraries, Museums, and Archives less important. However, the local and regional idiosyncrasies of users will adapt only slowly to a global view - especially when Collective Memories go beyond the domains of science and large organisations. As a European conference, ECDL 2001 must pay close attention to these aspects of globalisation with regard to multilinguality, preservation of the diverse cultural heritage, traditions, views, and approaches. In those three areas scientific papers are called for especially in, but not restricted to: * Applications in science, technology, and society * Integration in user communities * User interfaces, user models * Technologies supporting knowledge management * Information and knowledge environments * Collaboration in information spaces * Information retrieval, filtering, personalisation, and enrichment * Multimedia digital libraries * Digitalisation and annotation of real world artefacts * Data models, metadata models, ontologies CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS PAPERS Authors of regular papers are invited to submit original contributions, not exceeding 5000 words. The authors must follow the instructions found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The ECDL 2001 home page http://www.ecdl2001.org will contain further details on electronic submissions. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. The workshops will be organised during September 8th 2001. PANEL PROPOSALS We solicit proposals for panels sessions related to the conference topics. We strongly encourage panels that have a mixture of 2 academic and 2 practitioners/ users (plus the chair). TUTORIAL PROPOSALS We solicit proposals for tutorials related to the conference topics. The tutorials will be organised during September 4th 2001. Proposals should identify the intended audience and provide a scope of what will be covered. DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS The conference organisers solicit proposals for demonstrations of innovative results, projects and products, and also for high quality posters. A permanent space for those purposes will be available during the conference. The Demonstrations co-chairs can answer technical or practical questions beforehand. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). The proceedings will be published as printed books as well as a full-text electronic version. ORGANISATION GENERAL CHAIRS: Erich J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI: neuhold@darmstadt.gmd.de Elisabeth Niggemann, Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt:niggemann@dbf.ddb.de PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, NTNU, Trondheim: ingeborg.solvberg@idi.ntnu.no Panos Constantopoulos, FORTH, Crete: panos@ics.forth.gr DEMO & POSTER CHAIRS: Dan Atkins, University of Michigan: atkins@umich.edu, Karsten Wendland, TUD, Darmstadt:wendland@zit.tu-darmstadt.de TUTORIAL CHAIRS: Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund:fuhr@cs.uni-dortmund.de Richard Furuta, TAMU, Texas: furuta@cs.tamu.edu WORKSHOP CHAIR: Carol Peters, IEI-CNR, Pisa: carol@iei.pi.cnr.it ORGANISATION CHAIRS: Rudi Schmiede, TUD, Darmstadt: schmiede@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de Matthias Hemmje, GMD-IPSI: hemmje@darmstadt.gmd.de PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Thomas Baker, GMD,St. Augustin: Thomas.baker@gmd.de Nick Belkin, Rutgers Univ: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu Sponsored by: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), DELOS Network of Excellence, European Commission's Human Potential Programme, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)