Conference RCDL'2008 (Dubna, Russia, October 12-16, 2008)

WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AT OUR CONFERENCE!
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First announcement and call for papers
(print version - http://rcdl2008.jinr.ru/CfP_print_eng.pdf)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow РђРЎРњ SIGMOD Chapter

Tenth Anniversary of All-Russian Scientific Conference RCDL'2008
"Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections"

Dubna, October 12-16, 2008
http://rcdl2008.jinr.ru

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Deadline for Submission of extended abstracts: April 15, 2008
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The Conference is open for international participation

Objective
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Digital Libraries (DL) is a field of research and development aiming
to promote the theory and practice of processing, dissemination,
storage, search and analysis of various digital data. Digital
Libraries acting as k nowledge depositories can be considered as
complex information systems, development and use of which require
solution of numerous scientific, technological, methodological,
economic, legal and other issues. Digital Libraries technologies are
rapidly developing. Challenges in semantics, integration of
information, perception and presentation of various kinds of data call
for significant innovations.  Development of Digital Libraries
technologies is becoming more and more essential for raising of the
standards of health care, education, science and economy, as well as
the quality of life on the whole. Projects devoted to generation of
the digital form of the information concerning the Earth, Universe,
Literature, Art, Environment and Humans, accumulated by the humanity,
are examples of the intensive development of global information repositories.

RCDL'2008 is the tenth conference on this subject (1999 - St.
Petersburg, 2000 - Protvino,  2001 - Petrozavodsk, 2002 - Dubna, 2003
- St. Petersburg,  2004 - Puschino, 2005 - Yaroslavl, 2006 - Suzdal,
2007 - Pereslavl-Zalessky). Information about the conferences is
available at http://www.rcdl.ru. The principal objective of the series
of conferences is to promote the constituting of a community of
Russian experts involved in researches related to digital libraries.
The Conference offers such a community an opportunity to discuss ideas
and outcomes and to make contacts for closer cooperation. The
Conference also promotes the study of international experience,
development of the international cooperation on Digital Libraries. In
view of this, papers describing the advanced directions of research
and development are welcome. Much attention will be paid to pilot
applications and digital collections developed under RFBR projects on
digital libraries. It is planned to organize a round table (or a
panel) discussion dedicated to ontological modeling.

Participation of researchers from Europe and USA is expected. This
will provide for international information interchange and contacts
for cooperation

Topics
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1. Models and standards for information and metainformation
representation (including thesauri and ontologies) in DL
2. Ontological modeling features
3. Automatic classification of information
4. Methods and tools for data search, discovery, retrieval and
analysis in DL
5. Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections:
interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery,
metainformation integration
6. Open architectures for digital information environments
7. Mobile technologies and agents in DL context
8. Scientometrics studies in DL for e-science
9. Human aspects of DL (user interfaces, user behavior,
personalization, data visualization (rendering) and analysis,
intellectual property, user communities)
10. Analysis and processing of the natural languages, images,
video-, audio- and other data
11. Multilingual data access and multilingual data service
12. DL prototypes and digital collections for science, education,
culture, health care and management. DL evaluation: models, methods,
results
13. Digital collections in traditional libraries, museums,
archives, information centers
14. Advanced technologies of digital collection generation,
storage and system maintenance
15. Digital collection cataloging, indexing, referencing,
maintenance of integrity and consistency
16.     DL security and information protection
17.     DL and GRID technologies

The Conference Proceedings will be published as a collection of texts
of full accepted papers, short presentations and abstracts of posters
as well as in electronic form at the Conference Web-site.

Dates and venue
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The Conference will be held on October 12-16, 2008 at the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia. Dubna is a quiet
and pleasant town 130 km north of Moscow on the picturesque banks of
the Volga river. There is a railway and bus communication between
Dubna and Moscow. Detailed information about Dubna can be found at
http://www.dubna.ru/english/

Paper submission
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The Conference languages are Russian and English. Extended abstracts
and papers can be presented in any of the languages. The Program
Committee expects submission of original papers, not published
earlier. Extended abstracts of papers should be submitted to the
Program Committee in Russian or English language in an electronic form
(in PDF or RTF form)  through the Conference site from December 2007.

The size of extended abstracts should not be less than 2000 words.
Abstracts should provide quite a complete exposition of the paper
content, include the references to the publications and/or the
Internet resources.

When submitting extended abstracts, authors should specify to what of
the basic topics of this Conference their contribution is related. It
is possible to specify several suitable topics from the listed above.

The selection of papers to the Conference will be provided by the
program committee after reviewing the texts of extended abstracts. The
program committee can accept work as a short article (2000 - 3000
words) if it contains interesting results, but does not look
sufficient for publication as a full-text article.
    
The accepted presentations should be issued in accordance with the
rules that will be available at the Conference site.
  
At least one of the co-authors of the accepted work should be
registered for participation at the Conference and present the paper.

Best student's contributions
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The best contributions presented by students or post-graduate students
will be awarded.

Important deadlines
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1. Submission of extended abstracts: April 15, 2008
2. Applications for organization of relevant workshops are
accepted till April 21, 2008
3. Authors of papers will be notified on the status (accepted /
not accepted) till May 25, 2008
4. A full text of the accepted papers ready for the publication
in the Proceedings should be presented by July 1, 2008

Organizing committee
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Chairman - Sissakian Alexey, Corresponding Member of RAS, Director of JINR

Co-chairs
Ivanov Victor - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Kalinichenko Leonid - Institute of  Informatics Problems,RAS
Smetanin Yury - Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Sokolov Igor - Institute of  Informatics Problems,RAS

Members 
Kalmykova Lydia - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Strizh Tatiana - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Zrelov Peter - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Korenkov Vladimir - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Zaikina Alla - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Filozova Irina - Laboratory of Information Technologies (JINR)
Dokalenko Natalia - JINR International Department
Shabashova Anastasia - JINR Publishing Department

Contacts for organizational issues
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Laboratory of  Information Technologies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
141980, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia

Kalmykova Lydia (phone: +7 (49621) 63-961
E-mail: [email protected]
Zaikina Alla (phone: +7 (49621) 62-679
E-mail: [email protected]

Program Committee
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Co-chairs:
Shirikov Vladislav - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research 
Kalmykova Lydia - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Members:
Avramenko Arkady Pushchino  Radio Astronomy Observatory, RAS, Russia
Amato Giuseppe Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Italy
Antonov Alexander Galaktika Soft, Moscow, Russia
Borbinha Jose  IST / INESC-ID, Portugal
Braslavsky Pavel  Institute of Engineering Science,Ural Branch of RAS, Russia
Dobrov Boris  Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Russia
Fedotov Anatoly  Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Gostev Ivan  Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Russia
Gubin Maxim  Ask.Com IAC Search&Media, USA
Kalinichenko Leonid  Institute of  Informatics Problems, RAS, Russia
Kogalovsky Mikhail  Market Economy Institute, RAS, Russia
Kudushev Efim  Space Research Institute, RAS, Russia
Lavrenova Olga  Russian State Library
Litvine Vladimir  California Institute of Technology, USA
Le Meur Jean-Yves  European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
Malkov Oleg  Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Russia
Musulmanbekov Zhenis  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
Nekrestjanov Igor  Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Palej Dmitry  P.G.Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Proskudina Galina  Institute of Software Systems, NAS Ukraine
Rauber Andreas  Vienna University of Technology, Austria 
Segalovich Ilya  Yandex Ltd, Russia. 
Serebryakov Vladimir  A.A Dorodnitsyn Computing Center, RAS, Russia
Smirnov Vladimir  P.G.Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia 
Solvberg Ingeborg T.  Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
Ushakov Alexey  California University, Santa Barbara, USA
Vdovitsyn Vladimir  Karelian Research Centre, RAS, Russia
Voevodin Vladimir  Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Russia
Wolfengagen Vyacheslav  Moscow Engineering Physical Institute, Russia 
Zakharov Victor  Institute of  Informatics Problems, RAS, Russia
Zhizhimov Oleg  Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch of  RAS, Russia
Znamensky Sergey  Program System Institute, RAS, Russia

RCDL Steering Committee
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Chair: L..Kalinichenko (Moscow)

A. Avramenko (Pushchino)
A. Antopolsky (Moscow)
P. Braslavsky (Ekaterinburg)
M. Kogalovsky (Moscow)
E. Kudashev (Moscow)
A. Marchuk (Novosibirsk)
I. Nekrestjanov (Saint Petersburg)
V. Shirikov (Dubna)
Yu.Smetanin (Moscow)
V. Smirnov (Yaroslavl)
V. Vdovitsyn (Petrozavodsk)
V. Zakharov (Moscow)

ECDL/RCDL  Liason: Andreas Rauber, Leonid Kalinichenko
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With best wishes.                          Lidia Kalmykova.


  

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 RCDL2008                          mailto:[email protected]




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