The International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICDS 2007) will be held in Bangalore (India) on 21-23 February 2007.
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The proliferation of digital resources poses an unprecedented challenge to information professionals in generating efficient information services. Most patrons approach the Internet for the digital content but have no clue how to retrieve pertinent information and this has led to a demand for organized information services and resulted in digital library and institutional repositories. Technology and tools have to be deployed for harnessing the content and for retrieval of information from the mass of unorganized resources.
  
Semantic Web Technologies is an area that has invoked much research interest and aims at efficient information representation and retrieval. The aim of semantic web is to build conceptual relations for machine interpretation that eventually will lead to efficient knowledge mapping and organization techniques. However, research in Semantic Web is being understood and experimented in different areas differently and one of the most pertinent applications would be in the area of Information Retrieval. Search and retrieval mechanism in Digital Libraries (DL) are moving slowly towards becoming semantic. Interoperability between digital libraries has to be based on Semantic Web principles, in order to achieve meaningful user-machine interaction.
   
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, has a long research interest in knowledge organization techniques including its seminal contribution in the form of Prof. S.R. Ranganathan’s faceted approach to classification. In recent times DRTC has applied the classical theory to practical modeling in the area of Information Retrieval. The team at DRTC has experimented with application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in IR and has demonstrated systems in automatic classification and indexing. With this experience and as part of the Indian Statistical Institute Platinum jubilee celebrations, DRTC/ISI announces International conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries. The objective is to bring together the best expertise in the areas of Semantic Web and Digital Libraries from leading initiatives worldwide.
  
  
Call for papers
  
Original papers in English are invited on a theme related to those mentioned above. An international review panel will review the papers based on originality of the 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 that will be furnished along with acceptance note and also on the conference website. 
  

Important deadlines
   
Submission of full papers: 31 October 2006
Notification of acceptance of paper with comments: 30 November 2006
Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments: 31 December 2006
   
 
Contact and Enquiries
  
Dr. A.R.D. Prasad
Conference Convenor
Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute
8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560 059 Karnataka, INDIA
Phone: 91-80-28483002/3/4 extn no. 496 or 490
Fax : 91-80-28484265
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