Digital Libraries Symposium - Japan - Call for Papers

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                     Call for Papers and Participation

   International Symposium on Research, Development & Practice in Digital
                            Libraries : ISDL'97

                           November 18 - 21, 1997
         sponsored by University of Library and Information Science
                        Tsukuba Science City, Japan


Digital Libraries have been widely recognized as an important application in
the Global Information Infrastructure for worldwide information sharing and
for development in the next century. A number of research and development
projects are in progress in many countries and regions. In the United
States, the Library of Congress has its national digital library projects
which will provide users with a very large scale digital collection, the
NSF/NASA/ARPA has funded digital library initiatives at six universities
which will produce advanced information environments, and many other
universities are working on new digital library environments for their
researchers and students. There are also advanced digital library projects
in Europe and the Asia-Pacific countries. In Japan, the National Center for
Academic Information Systems (NACSIS), the National Diet Library (NDL), the
Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), the Japan Information
Processing Development Center (JIPDEC) are actively working on digital
library projects. In addition, the Japanese Science Council has made a
proposal on promotion of digital library environment for research and
education in universities.

A Digital Library is the integration of various advanced information
technologies, such as high-performance computers and networks,
multimedia/hypermedia, artificial intelligence and so on. Social and
cultural aspects are as important as technological factors for the success
of the digital library--aspects such as intellectual property rights,
electronic commerce, and the amassing of library holdings as intellectual
and cultural property. It is also crucial to discuss the information
environment of universities as they are the largest producers and consumers
of academic information.

The Digital Library has also been discussed as a library for the future.
Based on the experience of and the products from the digital library
projects of the past few years, we can now discuss not only research and
development for future libraries but also discuss experiments with and
practice issues for the digital library.

This symposium will provide an international forum for papers and
discussions by researchers, developers and practitioners in and for Digital
Libraries. The symposium topics are not limited, and may include

   * Digital Libraries and wide-area and high-performance networks
   * Storage and communication technologies for a wide variety of and
     vast amounts of multimedia information,
   * Digital information in the humanities, social sciences and natural
     sciences,
   * Editing, organizing, publishing, access, and computer-human
     interaction technologies for multimedia information,
   * Information technologies for multi-cultural and multi-lingual
     information for worldwide information sharing,
   * Digital library functions as a common ground for intellectual
     activities,
   * Roles of, and restrictions on, the digital library in communities.

The symposium will include presentations by invited guests and contributed
papers. English is the Symposium language.

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Paper Submission
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Authors are now invited to submit papers to the Program Committee for
ISDL'97.

Papers submitted to ISDL'97 will be reviewed and selected for presentation
at the symposium based on their relevance to the symposium topics and their
quality.

Symposium Language: English

Paper Submission Instruction
1. Submission Track and Paper Lengths
There are two tracks for paper submission: Regular papers and Short papers.
The maximum length for a Regular Paper is 4000 words; the maximum length for
a Short Paper is 2000 words.

Author(s) should specify the track --Regular or Short-- for which they wish
a paper to be considered. A paper may be considered for both categories, but
it will be accepted in only one; the Program Committee will make the
judgment as to which category is appropriate.

2. Presentation
All accepted papers will be included in the symposium proceedings, which
will be published and delivered at the symposium. There will be both printed
and electronic versions of the Proceedings.

Every accepted Regular paper will be presented in an oral presentation
session. All accepted Short papers will be presented in a poster session.
All accepted--Regular or Short--papers MUST be presented by an author or
authors at the symposium in Japan in November, 1997.

3. Camera Ready Copy/Proceedings
Authors of accepted papers will receive instructions for preparing a camera
ready copy of the paper for the printed proceedings and an electronic copy
of the paper for the electronic proceedings. The maximum length of each
Regular and Short paper will be 8 and 4 pages, respectively.

4. Submission instruction
Fill the ISDL'97 Paper Submission Form, and put it on top of the paper to be
submitted.

Send four copies of the paper with the submission form to the program chair
no later than June 30, 1997.

Program Chair:
        Professor Shigeo Sugimoto
        ISDL'97
        University of Library and Information Science
        1-2, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, JAPAN

Important dates to remember:

   * Deadline for submission of Papers: June 30, 1997
   * Paper Acceptance notification: August 15, 1997
   * Deadline for submitting camera ready copy of papers: October 1, 1997

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Organization
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Symposium Committee
Chair:  Koichi Tabata (ULIS)
        Jun Adachi (NACSIS)
        Hidehiro Ishizuka (ULIS)
        Shunsuke Uemura (NAIST)
        Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS)
        Masamitsu Negishi (NACSIS)
        Kimio Hosono (Keio Univ.)
        Atsutake Nozoe (Aichi Shukutoku Univ.)
        Tamiko Matsumura (ULIS)
        Takeo Yamamoto (ULIS)

Program Committee
Chair:  Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan)
        Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester Metro Univ., UK/Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
        Thomas Baker (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
        Suk-Doo Choi (Ewha Women's Univ., Korea)
        Ellen Detlefsen (Univ. Pittsburgh, USA)
        Hiromichi Hashizume (NACSIS, Japan)
        Yuzuru Hiraga (ULIS, Japan)
        Masakazu Imai (NAIST, Japan)
        Sung-Hyuk Kim (Sookmyung Women's Univ., Korea)
        Hiroshi Matsumoto (BBCC, Japan)
        Keizo Oyama (NACSIS, Japan)
        Edie Rasmussen (Univ. Pittsburgh, USA)
        Shoichi Taniguchi (ULIS, Japan)
        Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
        Jun'ichi Yamamoto (ULIS, Japan)

Contact Addresses:
ISDL'97
Univ. of Library and Information Science
1-2, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
phone: +81-298-59-1348 (Shigeo Sugimoto)
fax: +81-298-59-1093
email: ISDL97 at DL.ulis.ac.jp
URL: http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL97/

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                        ISDL'97 Paper Submission Form

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Track of Submission (Type of Paper)
    [   ]   Regular Paper  (Maximum 4000 words)
    [   ]   Short Paper  (Maximum 2000 words)
    [   ]   Regular or Short  (please consider this paper for either category)