ICADL 2007: Call for Participation

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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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/


OVERVIEW

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 will have presentations that examine the history 
and development of digital libraries, especially projects in the 
Asian region, as well as those that discuss future developments and 
cutting-edge technologies in digital libraries. 

Examples of topics to be presented in the conference include:

* social media/Web 2.0 technologies
* user-generated content
* mobile digital library applications
* education and digital libraries
* digital library infrastructure and architecture
* innovative digital library applications
* information retrieval techniques
* data/text/Web mining
* text summarization
* multilingual information processing
* user interfaces and usability
* metadata and cataloging
* taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web
* digital preservation
* digital archives and museums
* knowledge management 
* social, institutional, and policy issues
* security and privacy
* intellectual property



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED TALKS

Clara Chu, University of California Los Angeles
Multicultural and Globalized Digital Libraries: Digitizing and 
Empowering the "Other"

Bjørn Olstad, FAST
From Content Organization to User Empowerment

Gordon Mohr, Internet Archives
Archival Tools to Match the Web: Open, International, Comprehensive

Kristine Hanna, Internet Archives
Digital Archiving: Making It Happen

Maristella Agosti, University of Padova
Information Access through Digital Library Systems

Olaf Janssen, The European Library
How to Prepare a European Digital Library


More details are available on the conference Web site.




SPECIAL TRACK ON 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. 
Presentations will discuss experiences and projects that promote 
collaboration between Europe and Asia. 



PANELS

* Consortium of I-Schools in Asia-Pacific (CISAP) 
The CISAP panel will be a forum for I-Schools to exchange ideas and 
information about participating schools and to provide a platform to 
launch collaborative activities across regions - collaborative 
research projects, students and faculty exchange, and distance 
education. 

* Collaboration in Digital Libraries Research
This panel will allow digital libraries researchers to explore 
collaborative research opportunities. For the first time in the ICADL 
series, we will adopt a unique format for participants to mix and 
talk. Details will be provided shortly on the ICADL web site.



TUTORIALS

Edward Fox, Virginia Tech
Introduction to (Teaching / Learning about) Digital Libraries
 

Peter Jacso, University of Hawaii
Open Access Scholarly Databases

Ian Witten, University of Waikato
Introduction to Greenstone

More details are available on the conference Web site.



REGISTRATION

Information on registration procedures, conference fees, 
accommodation and transportation can be found in the ICADL 2007 web 
site: 
http://icadl2007.vista.gov.vn/reg.htm
http://icadl2007.vista.gov.vn/acc.htm



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]

The Program Co-chairs may also be contacted at: [email protected]