1) "Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries" Workshop.
For more information: http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl.
Program: http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl#PROG

2) "Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries
User Needs and Evaluation of multilingual resources use" Workshop.
For more information: http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/MLIA4DL09Workshop.php#CALL
Program: http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/MLIA4DL09Workshop.php#PROGRAMME

See corresponding sub-sections!

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.

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

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)

For Authors, Camera-ready Submission Procedures

Camera-ready papers for ICSD2009 should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length for full papers and 6 pages for posters. Papers must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors.

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)

Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image content, full musical score).  In an expanded view, DLs also support annotation, generation or editing of digital objects and provide tools for processing digital objects.  The semantic Web focuses on the formal representation of data for more precise retrieval and, more importantly, for reasoning so that many often disparate items of data can be combined to directly answer a user’s question or to devise a plan of action.  ICDLSW addresses two main questions:

   (1)    How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality?

   (2)    How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries?

Ultimately the goal is an environment in which all functionality is available to the user without the perception of different systems or system boundaries.

Contributions are sought that address one or both of the main questions or steps towards the ultimate
system.  Some example topics are listed below, but the purpose of this list is just to stimulate thinking. 

Specific topics that address one or both of the main questions

• Digital objects that provide formal representation of data ready for reasoning, possibly in addition to text, images, or sound.
• Knowledge acquisition: Editing tools that assist subject experts in the creation of formal representations of data.
• Digital objects that interact with the user or software agents.
• Standards and specifications for digital objects
• Organization and retrieval of software agents and Semantic Web services.
• Semantic search.  Use of ontologies and knowledge bases (such as topic maps) to improve search for digital objects.
• Question answering from text, from data/knowledge bases, or a combination.
• Next generation OPACs
• The structure and creation of ontologies to support these functions.
• Using the intellectual capital available in traditional KOS such as Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), UDC, or MeSH in the construction of ontologies that support truly semantic search and reasoning.
• Vocabulary and taxonomy development
• Multilingual issues in Digital Libraries.
• Semantics of bibliographical databases
• Metadata standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks
• Digital Library and Semantic Web Projects and Case Studies

We invite original papers in English on all relevant topics as mentioned above. Papers will be reviewed based on originality of work, quality and relevance to the main theme of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The papers should follow the submission instructions provided on the conference website.



The conference will explore the area of digital libraries and the semantic web through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations. The conference will also serve as a working platform for communities to discuss and agree on joint work. We also encourage the submission of workshop proposals for this purpose.

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