Research and advanced technology for digital libraries

The first European conference on "Research and advanced technology for digital libraries" will be held in Pisa, Italy, from 1 to 3 September 1997. The conference is sponsored by the European Community's specific programme in the field of Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR).

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, whose work relates to the development of digital libraries. This should assist in the formation of a European research community in the field, and stimulate discussion and review of research underway, both in Europe and in the USA and Japan.

The conference organizers are interested in receiving papers for presentation at the conference, in areas such as:

- Digital library models, frameworks and system requirements;
- Information retrieval, organization, navigation - tools and paradigms;
- Metadata;
- System integration and architecture issues;
- Role of knowledge representation systems in digital library interactions;
- Interoperability, scalability;
- Networked information discovery;
- Collecting, capturing, filtering, cataloguing, indexing, preserving;
- User interfaces;
- Multilinguality;
- Handling of graphics, GIS, multimedia information;
- Intellectual property rights;
- Authoring and electronic publishing;
- Economic and social implications and issues.
For further information, please contact:

IEI-CNR
Ms. Manuela Mennucci
Via S. Maria 46
I-56126 Pisa
Tel. +39-50-593430; Fax +39-50-593503
E-mail: mennucci@iei.pi.cnr.it

Further information may also be found on the World Wide Web, at:

http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/dl3.html(opens in new window)