Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

ECDL2000, the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 18 to 20 September 2000. This conference follows the previous very successful conferences in Pisa in 1997, Heraklion in 1998 and Paris in 1999.
One major goal of the ECDL series of conferences is to bring together researchers, industrial members, professionals, user communities and responsibles, promoting it as a reference forum for discussion of new emerging issues, requirements, proposals, politics and solutions.
 

Call for papers and panels

• Digital Library Requirements, Models, Systems and Frameworks (Metadata; Capturing; Indexing and Cataloging; User Interfaces; Knowledge Representation; Filtering and Dissemination; Preservation; etc.);

• Electronic Publishing and Economic Issues (New Publishing and Economic Models; Terms and Conditions for Access and Use; Intellectual Property and Rights Management; etc.);

• Networking and Distributing Issues (Interoperability; Scalability; Networked Resource Discovery; Collaborative and Distributes Authoring; Collaborative and Distributes Resources Management; etc.);

• Social Implications and Issues (User's Models; International Collaboration; Digital Libraries and Consortia; Multicultural and Multilingual Issues; New Emerging Issues; etc.).

Call for Demonstrations and Posters

Call for Workshops

• The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, both in printed and digital media (<http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html>), so please consider that the final camera ready papers will have to be prepared according the instructions at <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>. However, preferable formats for the submission of the proposals are PDF, Microsoft Word or Postscript, and always in just one file (so please do not send us HTML with inline images).
• Papers must be written in English and in no case should they exceed 10 printed pages. The first page must include the title, author name(s) and affiliation(s), an abstract and keywords.
• If your document is larger than 1 MByte, you may consider to compress it with Winzip before send it for submission.

Selected papers may be published later on also in the International Journal on Digital Libraries (<http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm>)izational or political issues, and promoted by specific communities, projects, organizations, etc.

Call for Tutorials

Submissions

• Proposals for papers or panels must be PREFERABLY, submited online using the service at <sub.html>, or sent by email to <ecdl2000@bn.pt> 
• Other proposals must be sent by email to <ecdl2000@bn.pt>.
• Proposals for demonstrations and posters may consist in a two to four pages descriptive document, referring also the technical requirements for its exposition.
• Proposals for panels, workshops or tutorials must consist in a descriptive document with relevant elements, such as the purpose of the event, the subject areas and communities to be involved, possible requirements for its organization, etc.
• Proposals for papers must take in attention that:
• Papers must have until 10 pages (including images and tables), using a normal font size.
• Preferable formats for the submission are PDF, Microsoft Word or Postscript, and always in just one file (so please do not submit in HTML with inline images - in that case you may compress it all with Winzip, for example). If your document is larger than 1 MByte, you may consider also compressing it with Winzip before send it for submission...
• However, please note that the proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, both in printed and digital media (please see <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html>), so please consider that the final camera ready papers will have to be prepared according the instructions available at <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>.
• Note: Some of the selected papers may be also invited for publishing in the International Journal on Digital Libraries at (<http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm>).