ECDL2005 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries September 18-23, 2005 Vienna, Austria http://www.ecdl2005.org ******************************************************************* ECDL 2005 is the 9th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences. ECDL has become the major European conference on digital libraries, and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2005 is jointly organized by the Vienna University of Technology (VUT), the Austrian National Library (ÖNB), and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). ECDL 2005 invites original contributions focusing on research and development supporting information access and exploration both from a technology perspective as well as in different application-domains such as science, e-government, cultural heritage, etc. Topics of contributions include (but are not limited to): - Concepts of Digital Libraries and Digital Documents - System Architectures, Integration and Interoperability - Information Organization, Search and Usage - User Studies and System Evaluation - Digital Preservation - Digital Library Applications ********************************************************************* *************** Full paper submission *************** ********************************************************************* Papers (maximum 12 pages for full papers, max 8 pages for short papers in Springer LNCS format) should report on original, completed research, applications and development that have not previously been presented elsewhere and that make new contributions to the conference topics. The full text of papers in English (no extended abstracts) is required at the initial submission stage for review, and must follow the format guidelines given below. In the spirit of digital libraries all papers must be submitted electronically via the conference web page. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), in hard copy and electronic form. The authors must follow the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) already for the initial full text submission. (We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for best results and easiest handling of your documents (now and in the future), but Springer also provides a template for Microsoft Windows.) It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their submission use no unusual format features and are printable on a standard Postscript printer. For the initial full text submission for review, authors are requested to submit the paper as a single pdf-file. (If this constitutes a hardship, or if you have problems submitting the paper via the web-based conference management review system, please contact the program chairs by email pc_chairs@ecdl2005.org to arrange an alternative means of submission.) All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. Papers are to be submitted via the ECDL2005 Conference Management system by the submission deadline. Final camera-ready submission: If accepted, camera-ready versions of papers incorporating changes recommended by the Reviewers, are to be submitted both in PDF as well as in source format (LaTeX, Microsoft Word or RTF). Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification, and all final versions will have to be submitted by the submission deadline for final versions. Accepted papers MUST be presented by an/the author at the conference. ********************************************************************* *************** Important dates *************** ********************************************************************* * Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 18, 2005 Proposals should be sent to workshops@ecdl2005.org. * Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2005 Submissions should be submitted to the ECDL2005 submission system. * Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2005 Proposals should be sent to tutorials@ecdl2005.org. * Panel Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2005 Proposals should be sent to panels@ecdl2005.org. * Doctoral Consortium Submission deadline: April 4, 2005 Proposals should be sent to doctoral_consortium@ecdl2005.org * Poster and Demo Submission Deadline: May 1, 2005 Posters and Demos should be submitted to the ECDL2005 submission system. * Paper Acceptance Notifications: May 15, 2005 * Final Version of Papers: June 3, 2005 * Conference: September 18-23, 2005 ********************************************************************* *************** Organization Commitee *************** ********************************************************************* General chair: A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Chairs: Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology , Austria Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete , Greece Poster & Demo Chairs: Giuseppe Amato, Istituto di scienza e technologie dell'informazione "A.Faedo" , Italy Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University Brno , Czech Workshop Chairs: Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde , United Kingdom Dieter Merkl, University of Western Sydney , Australia Panel Chairs: László Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Hungary Ed Fox, Virginia Tech University , United States of America Tutorial Chairs: Nozha Boujemaa, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) , France Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics , Japan Best Paper Award Chair: Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer - IPSI, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chair: Jose Borbinha, Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal Publicity Chairs: Julien Masanes, Bibliothčque nationale de France , France Michael Bauer, Technische Universität München , Germany Local Organizing Chairs: Eugen Muehlvenzl, Austrian Computer Society , Austria Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library , Austria Alexander Schatten, Vienna University of Technology , Austria Carl Rauch, Vienna University of Technology , Austria Liasons: JCDL: Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Sarah Giersch, Association of Research Libraries, USA RCDL: Leonid Andreevich Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia Alexander Iliych Rusakov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia ********************************************************************* *************** Program Commitee *************** ********************************************************************* Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland Hanne Albrechtsen, Risř National Laboratory, Denmark Anders Andro, Lund University, Sweden Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, University of Chile, Chile Miroslav Bartosek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Alejandro Bia Platas, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Mária Bieliková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Alberto Del Bimbo, Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Ann Blandford, University College London, United Kingdom Davide Bolchini, Universitŕ della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Christine L. Borgman, University of California, USA Pavel I. Braslavsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria Tiziana Cartaci, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Donatella Castelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy A. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, The State and University Library, Denmark Anita Coleman, University of Arizona, USA Michel Crucianu, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France Sally Jo Cunningham, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Michael Day, University of Bath, United Kingdom Michael Dittenbach, E- Commerce Competence Center - EC3, Austria Boris Dobrov, Moscow State University, Russia Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research & Technology, Greece Sandor Dominich, University of Veszprem, Hungary Matthew Dovey, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Cedric Dumas, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Jan Engelen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Dieter Fellner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany Pablo de la Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jane Hunter, The University of Queensland, Australia Stephen Katz, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Italy Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria Traugott Koch, Lund University Libraries, Sweden Harald Krottmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria Josef Kueng, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, USA Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley, USA Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Liz Lyon, University of Bath, United Kingdom Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Vladmimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Andras Micsik, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Dunja Mladenic, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Günter Muehlberger, University of Innsbruck, Austria Igor Nekrestyanov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Heike Neuroth, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Elias Pampalk, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece Jan Paralic, University of Technology Kosice, Slovakia Thomas Risse, IPSI Fraunhofer, Germany Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Nieves Rodriguez Brisaboa, Universidad de A Coruńa, Spain Lloyd Rutledge, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands Rudi Schmiede, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Heiko Schuldt, University of health sciences, medical informatics and technology, Austria Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mário J. Gaspar da Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Edleno Silva de Moura, Universidade do Amazonas, Brasil Simeon Simoff, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Maria Sliwinska, International Center for Information Management Systems and Services, Poland Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA Ingeborg T. Solvberg, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway Nicolas Spyratos, Université de Paris-Sud, France Jela Steinerova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa Shalini R. Urs, University of Mysore, India Felisa M. Verdejo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Paula Viana, Instituto Politéchnico do Porto, Portugal James Z. Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck -Institut für Informatik, Germany Ian Witten, The University of Waikato, New Zealand