Call for Tutorials: 9th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL)

                Call for Tutorial Proposals
        9th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries
                  http://rcdl.ru/en/index.html
             http://rcdl2007.pereslavl.ru/en/news.shtml
                        Pereslavl, Russia
                       October 15-18, 2007

Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2007) invites proposals 
for tutorials.
A major Russian event in the digital libraries field, RCDL helps to 
improve international collaboration. English is the second official 
language of the conference and most of Russian participants are able 
to speak English, providing a foundation for efficient communication.

RCDL traditionally attracts leading Russian IR researchers. 
Conference program includes number of presentation on IR topics and 
this year there are two collocated IR workshops: Russian Information 
Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP) (http://romip.ru/en/index.html 
for details) and Internet Mathematics workshop 
(http://company.yandex.ru/grant/index.xml).

We are looking for 2-4 hours tutorials surveying mature work, 
presenting emerging approaches or challenging applications. 
Especially welcome are tutorials addressing advanced IR topics and 
topics on the edge of DL and IR.

Conference will be held in Pereslavl, a small ancient city in Moscow 
region. For more information about the conference and venue, please 
see http://rcdl.ru/en/index.html.

***** Submissions should include:
-	Title of Tutorial
-	   - Name, affiliation, and contact coordinates of speaker
-	   - Rational: the overal objective of the tutorial
-	   - Outline: a brief structure of the tutorial
-	   - Intended audience: what prerequisites are required to 
understand the tutorial
-	   - List of (up to 10) related references.
-	   - Where this tutorial has been presented before (or is 
under consideration for presentation), if applicable.
-	   - A short biographical sketch of each author (about 10 
lines/author).

What a tutorial should NOT be: a promotion of the only presenter's 
work; a promotion of a product.

The proposals should be sent to [email protected]

***** Important dates:
Deadline for the proposals: August 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2007

***** Notes:
* Tutorials will be freely accessible by conference participants. 
Tutorial notes will be published on the conference web site and 
included into the conference proceedings.

* Depending on funding availability, RCDL 2007 will cover travel and 
lodging expenses for one presenter per accepted tutorial.