International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL)
Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013. I thought that would get your attention. Details follow.
Dates:
Full and Short papers, Posters, Panels, and Demonstrations deadline: March 23, 2013
Workshops and Tutorials proposals deadline: March 4, 2013
Doctoral Consortium papers submission deadline: June 2, 2013
Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013
Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 22, 2013
Doctoral Consortium acceptance notification: June 24, 2013
Camera ready versions: June 9, 2013
End of early registration: July 31, 2013
Conference dates: September 22-26, 2013
The general theme of the conference is “Sharing meaningful information,” a theme reflected in the topics for conference submissions:
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross:
Foundations
- Information models
- Digital library conceptual models and formal issues
- Digital library 2.0
- Digital library education curricula
- Economic and legal aspects (e.g. rights management) landscape for digital libraries
- Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
- Information policies
- Studies of human factors in networked information
- Scholarly primitives
- Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities
- User behavior analysis and modeling
- Social-technical perspectives of digital information
Infrastructures
- Digital library architectures
- Cloud and grid deployments
- Federation of repositories
- Collaborative and participatory information environments
- Data storage and indexing
- Big data management
- e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures
- Semi structured data
- Semantic web issues in digital libraries
- Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
- Linked Data and its applications
Content
- Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats)
- Interoperability and Information integration
- Digital Curation and related workflows
- Preservation, authenticity and provenance
- Web archiving
- Social media and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.)
- Crowdsourcing
- 3D models indexing and retrieval
- Authority management issues
Services
- Information Retrieval and browsing
- Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Personalization in digital libraries
- Context awareness in information access
- Semantic aware services
- Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g. mobile devices
- Visualization of large-scale information environments
- Evaluation of online information environments
- Quality metrics
- Interfaces to digital libraries
- Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
- Social networks analysis and virtual organizations
- Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication
- Mashups of resources
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