The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly invites you to participate to the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece.

The general theme of the conference is "Digital Societies".

http://www.ecdl2009.eu/

Aim and Scope of the Conference

Close to the turn of the first decade of the third millennium, digital libraries are facing critical challenges that lead to major transformations. The expansion of social networking applications is an important development, which has lead to the creation of new user communities and the cohesion of already existing ones. Although user communities have been under the research lens of the digital library community, they never had higher interest than nowadays. User communities have abandoned pathetic participation in information environments and have developed an active behavior expressed in a multitude of ways.

In the same time, after a decade of solidification the issue of metadata re-emerges to address the new challenges. Annotations and tagging has been an edge-leading theme for digital libraries, which now can be viewed under a different perspective. The implication of user communities in various aspects of information management stages, such as creation of new information, enrichment of information artifacts, sharing and distribution of information objects, filtering of relevant items and so on, require a thorough examination of the metadata issues and services that augment all these activities.

In this intense environment ECDL 2009, under the general title "Digital Societies", invites submissions for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process.

Topics

Relevant topics for the ECDL 2009 are grouped to three tracks, corresponding to the Infrastructures, Content Management and the Services required for the development and support of Digital Societies. The topics include, but are not limited to:

* Infrastructures
o Digital Library Architectures: Grids
o Formal Issues in Digital Libraries
o Conceptual Views of Digital Libraries
o User Interfaces
o Strategic Infrastructure

* Content Management
o Metadata Schemas
o Semi Structured Data
o Interoperability & Data Integration
o Digital Curation
o Digital Archiving and Preservation
o Collection Development & Management
and Policies
o Legal Issues
o Semantic Web Issues in Digital
Libraries

* Services
o Information Retrieval
o Multilingual Information Retrieval
o Multimedia Information Retrieval
o Personalization in Digital Libraries
o Ontologies and Knowledge Organization
Systems
o Social Networking & Web 2.0
Technologies
o User Studies & Digital Library
Evaluation
o Log Data in Digital Libraries

Important Dates

Papers, Posters, Demonstrations submission deadline: March 21, 2009

Acceptance notifications: May 11, 2009

Camera ready versions: May 31 2009

Workshops, Tutorials and Panels submission deadline: February 27, 2009

Workshops, Tutorials and Panels acceptance notification: April 15, 2009

Doctoral Consortium Papers submission deadline: June 1, 2009

Doctoral Consortium Papers acceptance notification: June 30, 2009

Conference dates: September 27-October 2, 2009