[Web4lib] CfP Making Digital Libraries Interoperable Workshop, 9-10/09/10 within ECDL2010, Glasgow, UK

[Perla Innocenti]

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=== Call for Papers - 2nd DL.org Workshop ===
Making Digital Libraries Interoperable, 9-10 September 2010, during the 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2010), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

http://www.dlorg.eu/index.php/dl-org-events/2nd-dl-org-workshop

== Workshop Theme ==
The central theme of the 2nd DL.org Workshop will be "Digital Library Interoperability". Interoperability is a multi-layered and very context-specific concept. It encompasses different levels along a multidimensional spectrum. The Workshop will address this difficult problem from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Many of the above facets include  open research issues. This Workshop will highlight the several dimensions of the problem and indicate new research directions.

== Paper Submission ==
We are soliciting two types of contributions: Research Papers and Project Papers.

Research Papers
Authors are invited to submit original research papers addressing current approaches and new research directions for  tackling the multi-faceted digital library interoperability issues. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical Foundations of Interoperability in Digital Library
- Emerging interoperability issues
- Standard-based approaches toward interoperability
- Technologies promoting interoperability
- Mediator-based approaches toward interoperability
- Concrete implementations and exploitations of interoperability solution
- Evaluation of interoperability approaches and solutions
- Interoperability Models
- Ontology driven interoperability
- Metadata interoperability
- Interoperability levels
Research papers will have a full-length  oral presentation and will be published in proceedings. Each submitted paper must not exceed 10 pages in total.

Project Papers
Authors are invited to submit papers focusing on DL interoperability approaches and solutions adopted and lessons learned when implementing interoperable DL systems in the context of European, international and national projects. 
These papers will have a short oral presentation and will be included in the "Project Papers" section of the Workshop  proceedings. Each submitted paper must not exceed 8 pages in total.

== Formatting ==
All contributions must be written in English. They must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS - http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and submitted via the workshop submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlorg2010).

== Workshop Reviewing Process ==
The reviewing process will be carried out by the members of the Workshop International Programme Committee. Two referees will review each paper.

== Programme Committee ==
Tiziana Catarci, Professor of Computer Science,University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Member of DL.org's User Working Group
Jane Hunter, Professor at the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia - Member of DL.org's Liaison Group
Ronald Larsen, Dean of the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, U.S. - Member of DL.org's Liaison Group
John Mylopoulos, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Fabio Simeoni, Research Assistant, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Dagobert Soergel, Dean of the Library & Information Studies, University at Buffalo, U.S. - Scientific Chair of DL.org's Functionality Working Group

== Workshop Organisers ==
Donatella Castelli, Senior Researcher, Institute of Information & Technologies, National Research Council of Italy - DL.org Co-ordinator 
Yannis Ioannidis, Professsor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece - Scientific Chair of the User Working Group 
Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada - Member of DL.org's Working Groups on Policy & Quality

== Important Dates ==
Paper Submission: 20 June 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 16 July  2010
Camera ready Papers: 30 July  2010

== Info ==
For more info please contact info at dlorg.eu