日本データベース学会の皆様，ACM SIGMOD日本支部の皆様 ECDL 2006 の〆切が延長されましたのでご連絡申し上げます． 筑波大 森嶋厚行 ======================================================= ECDL 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS -- deadline extension 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries "Towards the European Digital Library" September 17-22, Alicante, Spain http://www.ecdl2006.org ***** NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 11 ****** The 10th ECDL will be held in Alicante (Spain) in September 2006. The ECDL has become the major European Conference on Digital Libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues, gathering researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. Papers are invited on substantial, original and completed research, applications and development that have not previously been presented elsewhere and that make new contributions to all aspects of Digital Libraries, including, but not limited to: - Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content. - Collection building, management and integration. - System architectures, integration and interoperability. - Information organization, search and usage. - Multilingual Information Access and Multimedia Information handling. - User interfaces for Digital Libraries - User studies and system evaluation. - Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical and legal issues. - Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning, e-government, cultural heritage, etc. The special topic of this edition of the ECDL Conference is "Towards the European Digital Library", with the aim of emphasizing the contribution of the European Digital Library research community (and its liaisons with the international research community in general) to the current efforts of the European Commission in this direction. Papers focusing on this topic are particularly welcome. Papers should present completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee which will also take final decisions on the technical program. Submission information --------------------------- The full text of papers in English (maximum 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format) is required at the initial submission stage for review. In the spirit of digital libraries, all papers must be submitted electronically via the ECDL 2006 Conference Management System at https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/webchair/inicial.php?id=8 Submissions must follow the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for best results and easiest handling of your documents (now and in the future), but Springer also provides a template for Microsoft Windows. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their submission is printable on a standard Postscript printer. For the initial full text submission for review, authors are requested to submit the paper as a single pdf file. If this constitutes a hardship, or in case of problems submitting the paper via the web-based conference management review system, please contact the program chairs by email (pc_chairs@ecdl2006.org) to arrange alternative means of submission. When accepted, final camera-ready version of papers are to be submitted both in pdf and in source format (LaTeX, MS Word or rtf). Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. Note that accepted papers MUST be presented by one of the authors at the conference. Publication ------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in hard copy and electronic form. Important dates ------------------ Paper submission deadline (extended): March 11 Acceptance notification: May 15 camera-ready version due: June 2 ECDL Conference: September 17-22 For more information, visit the ECDL 2006 homepage at http://www.ecdl2006.org