ECDL'99 Preliminary Call For Papers Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999 Co-organized by BNF (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) and INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) After Pisa in 1997 and Heraklion in 1998, ECDL will take place in Paris at the prestigious location of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. It is the third of a series, partially funded by the European Commission's TMR Programme, of European conferences on research and technology for digital libraries. Its main objective is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to present their work on enabling technologies for digital libraries. The conference also provides an opportunity for scientists to develop a research community in Europe focusing on digital library development. The conference organisers solicit papers, panels and tutorials on novel research on digital libraries, including but not limited to the following list of topics: Digital library models, frameworks, and systems, interoperability, scalability Information retrieval, navigation, indexing, catalogues Multimedia information management, digitization (image, graphic, video, sound) Electronic authoring, publishing, multilinguality Metadata, knowledge representation, agent technologies Experiments in DL system development, business models for digital libraries (pricing, etc.) User interfaces, evaluation of these interfaces by users The conference is partially sponsored by ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) which will in particular provide some scholarships for young researchers attending the conference. Some selected papers will be published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries. Program Committee Serge Abiteboul, INRIA (France), chair Nabil Adam, Rutgers U. (USA) Robert Allen, Bellcore (USA) Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, (Bangkok, Thailand) Vassilis Christophides, Forth (Greece) Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts (USA) Jacques Ducloy, LORIA (France) Gerard Dupoirier, Rank Xerox (France) Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund U. (Germany) Keith Jeffery, CLRC-RAL (UK) Judith Klavans, Colombia U. (USA) Carl Lagoze, Cornell U. (USA) Derek Law, U. Strathclyde (UK) Dominique Maillet, BNF (France) Alain Michard, ERCIM (France) Marc Nanard, CRIM Montpellier (France) Christos Nikolaou, U. Crete & FORTH (Greece) Andreas Paepcke, Stanford (USA) Carol Peters, IEI-CNR (Italy) Hans J. Schek, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Alan Smeaton, Dublin City U. (Ireland) Ingeborg T. Salvberg, NTNU-Trondheim (Norway) Shigeo Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc. (Japan) Costantino Thanos, IEI-CNR (Italy) Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA (France) Jean-Didier Wagneur, BNF (France) PC Chair: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA) Organization: Thierry Grillet (BNF), and Florence Balax (INRIA) For information: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/EuroDL99 or contact Florence.Balax@inria.fr We look forward to seeing you in Paris at ECDL99! Thank you for your attention. Best Regards, Anne-Marie Anne-Marie Vercoustre Inria Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau-Rocquencourt B.P.105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, FRANCE Phone: +33-1 39 63 56 62 Fax: +33-1 39 63 56 74 Email: Anne-Marie.Vercoustre@inria.fr http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~vercoust