[Web4lib] ICADL 2007 - Submission deadline extension

[Quan Thanh Tho]

Dear colleagues,

 

The ICADL 2007 submission deadline has been extended to 2 July. There will
likely not be any more extensions after this due to time constraints for
reviewing. Please find more details in the attached.

 

Thank you.

 

Quan Thanh Tho


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****** APOLOGLIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

Updates:
1. New extended deadline for paper submissions
2. New special track on European digital libraries initiatives
3. Keynotes and invited talks



Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to 2 July 2007.



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: 2 July 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 at vista.gov.vn

For queries specific to paper submission or the conference program, please e-mail the program co-chairs at icadl2007 at ntu.edu.sg