ICADL 2007: New Special Track on European DL Initiatives

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Updates:
1. Paper submission system is now open
2. New special track on European digital libraries initiatives
3. Keynotes and invited talks


CALL FOR PAPERS
The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 
2007)
10-13 December 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam

"Asian Digital Libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New 
Frontiers"

Conference web site: http://icadl2007.vista.gov.vn/
Paper submission site: http://islab2.sci.ntu.edu.sg/icadl2007/


The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is 
one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries 
research. ICADL 2007 will provide a forum for sharing ideas, 
research results and experiences in digital libraries, related 
technologies and associated practical and social issues. 
Participants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged. Previous 
conferences have included practitioners, researchers, educators and 
policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer 
science/information technology, library and information sciences, 
archival and museum studies, knowledge management, and many areas in 
the social sciences and humanities.

Into its tenth year, the theme of ICADL 2007 will be "Asian Digital 
libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers".  In 
line with this theme, we are soliciting papers that examine the 
history and development of digital libraries, especially projects in 
the Asian region, as well as papers that discuss future developments 
and cutting-edge technologies in digital libraries. Submissions 
focusing on other digital library areas are also welcome and may 
include research, system, evaluation, policy and position papers. 
Topics include but are not limited to:

* digital library infrastructure and architecture
* information retrieval, filtering and extraction
* data/text/Web mining
* text summarization
* multilingual information processing
* interoperability issues
* open source tools and frameworks for digital libraries
* mobile services
* human-computer interaction
* user interfaces and visualization
* user communities
* social media/Web 2.0 technologies
* metadata and cataloging
* taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web
* digital preservation
* digital archives and museums
* knowledge management 
* social, institutional, and policy issues
* e-government
* use and impact
* security and privacy
* intellectual property
* pedagogical issues
* case studies
* innovative applications
* future trends



NEW SPECIAL TRACK: EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVES

In addition, ICADL 2007 has partnered with the Conference of 
European National Librarians (CENL) and The European Library (TEL) 
to organize a special track on European digital libraries 
initiatives. We welcome papers that discuss experiences and projects 
that promote collaboration between Europe and Asia. Specific topics 
include those listed above as well as strategic, political and 
interoperability issues in language and standards.

When submitting papers to this special track, please 
specify "Special track: European DL initiatives" in the topic list 
of the paper submission system in addition to the other relevant 
topics.

Maristella Agosti of the University of Padova and Jill Cousins of 
The European Library will be invited speakers in this special track.



PAPER SUBMISSION

Both full papers and short papers will be accepted. Papers must be 
in English with a limit of 10 pages for full papers and 4 pages for 
short papers. Electronic submission will be used and the accepted 
file format is Adobe Acrobat PDF.

All papers must be original contributions and not previously 
published nor currently under consideration for publication 
elsewhere. Conference proceedings will be published as part of 
Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. 
Submissions must therefore conform to the LNCS formatting 
instructions. Please refer to the conference Web site for more 
details.

These instructions also apply to papers submitted to the special 
track on European Digital Libraries Initiatives.



IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission of full and short papers: 25 June 2007
Submission of papers to the special track on European Digital 
Libraries Initiatives: 2 July 2007
Notification of acceptance: 20 August 2007
Camera-ready copy due: 10 September 2007



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED TALKS

Maristella Agosti, University of Padova
Jill Cousins, The European Library
Clara Chu, University of California Los Angeles
Kristine Hanna, Internet Archives
Gordon Mohr, Internet Archives
Bjørn Olstad, FAST

More details will be available soon on the conference Web site.



CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

ICADL 2007 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and is jointly hosted by 
the National Center for Scientific & Technological Information 
(NACESTI), the National Library of Vietnam (NLV), General Science 
Library of Hochiminh City (GSL), the Library & Information Center of 
the Vietnam National University Hanoi (LIC/VNUH), Hanoi University 
of Technology (HUT), Vietnam Association on Scientific and 
Technological Information & Documentation (VASTID), Vietnam Library 
Association (VLA), Vietnam Association for Information Processing 
(VAIP), and other organizations.

ICADL 2007 is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology 
(MOST), Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI), Ministry of 
Education and Training (MOET) of Vietnam.



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Ta Ba Hung (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)

Vice Chair
Cao Minh Kiem (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)

Program Co-Chairs
Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Tru Cao (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam)
Ingeborg Sølvberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 
Norway)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Tutorial Chair
Yin-Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Publication Co-Chairs
Chu Keong Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Nguyen Tien Duc (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)

Publicity Co-Chairs
Cao Minh Kiem (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)
Quan Thanh Tho (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam)

Finance Chair
Tran Thu Lan (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)

Local Arrangements Chair
Phung Minh Lai (National Center for Scientific and Technological 
Information, Vietnam)

Steering Committee Chair
Ee Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)



CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about ICADL 2007, please contact:

Tran Thu Lan
National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information
24 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi, VIETNAM
Tel.: +84-4-8246329
Fax: +84-4-9349127.  
Email: tlan-tULRzs0LXJDzqtR2z4/[email protected]

For queries specific to paper submission or the conference program, 
please e-mail the program co-chairs at [email protected]