Third European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
The Third European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries is taking place in Paris, France, on 22-24 September 1999. Its main objective is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to present their work on enabling technologies for digital libraries. The conference aims at promoting networking amongst researchers focussing on digital library development. It is the third conference of a series which is partially funded by the European Commission's Training and Mobility of Researchers Programme. The organisers invite papers, panels and tutorials on novel research on digital libraries on the following topics: - Digital library models, frameworks and systems, interoperability, scalability; - Multimedia information management, digitisation (image, graphic, video, sound); - Electronic authoring, publishing, multilinguality; - Metadata, knowledge representation, agent technologies; - Experiments in digital library system development, business models for digital libraries (pricing etc.); - User interfaces, evaluation of these interfaces by users. The conference is jointly organised by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique.
Countries
France