CFP Second Workshop on "Foundations of Digital Libraries - DEADLINE IS APPROACHING

CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Workshop on "Foundations of Digital Libraries"
Budapest, Hungary, September 20, 2007

In conjunction with 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced
Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), 16-21 September 2007,
Budapest, Hungary

Workshop Objectives
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By their very nature, Digital Libraries are served by a research community that has been historically heterogeneous and involves scientists from a large number of disciplines. Hence, it should come to no surprise that no agreement exists on the foundations characterizing and governing this broad field; instead, a plethora of models, systems, and methodologies have been developed that are difficult to combine and reuse. Currently the community is well aware of the problems created by such lack of universally accepted frameworks and of the urgency for reversing the situation so that progress may be accelerated.
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This is the second workshop in a series aiming at bringing together the international Digital Library community, especially researchers interested in Digital Library modeling and working on the foundations of the field, for intenstive brainstorming and idea exchanging. Discussions and deliberations will be on several different aspects of the problem and will be in the context of a unified reference model for Digital Libraries. In particular, as a focal point, the workshop will have the Reference Model for Digital Libraries (www.delos.info/ReferenceModel) launched by the EU DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (www.delos.info).
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The workshop also intends to serve as a vehicle for expanding the set of researchers involved in the formation of the Reference Model, starting from those participating in the meeting itself and continuing on afterwards through appropriate collaborative instruments initiated by DELOS. Increasing the circle of those contributing to this activity will help in consolidating the key concepts in the field and will lead to a comprehensive and universally accepted model, influencing future activities and development of Digital Library systems.

Topics
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The workshop will focus on the modeling of the main aspects that characterize the Digital Library universe: Content, User, Functionality, Policy, Quality and Architecture. For each one of these, the workshop participants will be asked to outline the specific modeling and research challenges and to identify some of the most promising candidate solutions to address those challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- (Semi-)Formal Models for Digital Libraries
- Theoretical Foundations of Digital Libraries
- Models for Digital Library Resources
- Models for Information Object, Metadata, Policy, User
- Digital Library Functionality and Architecture Models
- Reference Architectures for Digital Library Systems
- Digital Library and Digital Library System quality models
- Models of Digital Library Management Systems
- Evaluation of current approaches in modeling Digital Libraries
- Digital Library Interoperability Models
- Concrete exploitations and implementations of Digital Library models
- Models for Digital Libraries as Collaborative Tools

Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.
Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages, following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0&tease
rId=45515&CENTER_ID=73062).
Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Papers should be submitted electronically via email to DLFoundations2007@isti.cnr.it. Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the DELOS workshop proceedings, which will also be made available in the DELOS digital library. For every accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Depending upon the quantity and quality of the submissions, efforts to coordinate follow-on publications may be made, involving extended versions of some of the accepted papers.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: July 18, 2007 Acceptance notification: July 30, 2007 Camera ready: Spetember 3, 2007
Workshop: September 20, 2007

Program Committee
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Maristella Agosti, Univ. of Padua, Italy Leonardo Candela, ISTI-CNR, Italy Stavros Christodoulakis, Tech. Univ. of Crete, Hellas (Greece) Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Geneva Henry, Rice Univ., USA Georgia Koutrica, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, USA Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Seamus Ross, HATII, UK Heiko Schuldt, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland Dagobert Soergel, Univ. of Maryland - College Park, USA

Organisers
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Donatella Castelli
ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Yannis Ioannidis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Hellas (Greece)

For any inquiries, please contact the organizers at
DLFoundations2007@isti.cnr.it