organization

Dates

*** June 8, 2009***: Submission (Papers, Posters & Workshops)
July 31, 2009: Notification
August 20, 2009: Camera-ready copy
Tuesday, September 8, 2009: Workshop on "Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries"
Wednesday, September 9, 2009: Workshop on "Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries User Needs and Evaluation of multilingual resources use"
Wednesday, September 9, 2009: Tutorial on "Semantic Digital Libraries"
Thursday-Friday, September 10-11, 2009 - : International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)

Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Chair, University of Trento
* Heiko Stoermer
contact: stoermer@disi.unitn.it
* Angela Fogarolli

Event and Conference Office, University of Trento
* Paola Bodio
* Martina Lorenzi

Webmaster
* Sven Buschbeck

Publicity, FAO of the United Nations
* Elena Di Paola

Programme Committee

Conference Chair

Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy

Programme Committee Chairs

Wolfgan Nejdl, University of Hannover
Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations

Members

Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel (accepted)
Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna (accepted)
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland (accepted)
Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) (accepted)
Norbert Fuhr, University Duisburg-Essen (accepted)
Claudia Niederee, L3S Hannover (accepted)
Irina Sens, TIB Hannover (accepted)
Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute (accepted)
ARD Prasad, Indian Statistical Institute (accepted)
Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute (accepted)
Asanee Kawtrakul, Computer Department, Kasetsart University, Bangkok (accepted)
Margherita Sini, FAO of the UN (accepted)
Ivan Herrman, W3C (accepted)
Danica Radovanovic, FAO of the United Nations (accepted)
Heike Neuroth, State and University Library, Goettingen (accepted)
Donatella Castelli, Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS), Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italy (accepted)
Fausto Giunchiglia, DISI, University of Trento, Italy (accepted)
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics, Center for Innovative Computing & Informatics, McLean, USA (accepted)
Peter Schirmbacher, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (accepted)
Robert Meersman, Director, Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab), Free University of Brussels (VUB), Brussels, Belgium (accepted)
Peter Haase, AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (accepted)
Nikos Manouselis Agricultural University of Athens (accepted)
Angela Fogarolli, University of Trento (accepted)
Andreas Harth, Institut AIFB - Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (accepted)
Koraljka Golub, UKOLN, University of Bath, United Kingdom (accepted)
Vivien Petras, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany (accepted)
Emma Tonkin, UKOLN, University of Bath, United Kingdom (accepted)
Matthias Kaun, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany (accepted)
Willem Robert van Hage, VU University Amsterdam (accepted)
Enrico Francesconi, Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques, Italian National
Research Council (ITTIG-CNR), Italy (accepted)
Chang Chun, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (accepted)
Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy (accepted)

Registration

» click here to register!

The registration desk will open on Monday 7th September between 6pm and 8pm (at the conference building) for pre-registration, and will be open for the entire duration of the conference.

Workshop-only fees include:

2 coffee breaks (for full-day workshops) or 1 coffee break for half-day workshops;
printed or electronic working notes.

Conference fee includes:

access to both workshop;
workshop coffee breaks plus 4 coffee breaks for the main conference;
conference dinner

	Early registration (until August 31st)	Late or on site registration
Workshop "AT4DL" ONLY (without conference)	€ 50	€ 70
Workshop "MLIA4DL" ONLY (without conference)	€ 50	€ 70
Main Conference	€ 250	€ 350

Social dinner (without conference)	€ 40

Travel and Accomodation Info

HOW TO REACH TRENTO

By car or coach

You can reach Trento by the following roads: Strada Statale dell'Abetone e del Brennero; Autostrada del Brennero - A22 motorway, phone (+39) 0461 980085; Superstrada della Valsugana for those coming from Venice; and Strada Statale 45 bis (Gardesana Occidentale) for those coming from Brescia.
By train

Two main lines reach Trento: the Brennero line (from Rome to Innsbruck) and the Valsugana line (from Venice to Trento). Timetable details from Ferrovie dello Stato

By plane

The closest airports to Trento are the following:

Verona Catullo Airport - 90 km
Venezia Marco Polo - 125 km
Milano Linate - 245 km
Milano Malpensa - 300km
Bolzano - 60 km
Bergamo Orio al Serio - 190 km

Various motorways allow fast travelling time to the airports.

Town travel

The town has an efficient urban travel system (yellow buses) run by Trentino Trasporti spa. Extra urban buses are run by the same company. If you visit the Trentino Trasporti office at the main railway station you can pick up a free timetable “Guida ai trasporti del Trentino”. Taxis can be caught anywhere in town or booked on the phone number (+39) 0461 930002

ACCOMMODATION

Special room rates for conference participants have been negotiated with the hotels of Trento (see attached file below). Prices are per night per room including full breakfast, taxes and reservation fee. In order to make your reservation, please DOWNLOAD the hotel form from the bottom of this page and send it via fax or email to the hotel. Note that only by filling this form you can benefit from the discounted room rates.

For more information please contact: convegni@unitn.it

Further Information

The Trentino Region has many interesting monuments scattered all around the territory: museums, castles and attractions. Visit http://www.trentino.to/
To find out more about the town of Trento visit http://www.comune.tn.it or http://www.apt.trento.it/a>

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Venue

The main conference, the workshop and the tutorial will be held at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Via Verdi 26, Trento, Italy (see map)

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