The International Conference on
Digital Libraries (ICDL 2008) is the premier forum for the
presentation of technological advances and research results
in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied
Digital Libraries. ICDL 2008 will bring together leading
engineers and scientists in Digital Libraries from around
the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but
are not limited to:
Case studies
Collaboration in DLs
Collection building, management and integration
Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content
Data/text/Web mining
Digital archives and museums
Digital archiving and preservation: methodological,
technical and legal issues
Digital curation
Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning,
e-government, cultural heritage
Digital library infrastructure and architecture
Digital preservation
e-government
Future trends
Human-computer interaction
Information organization, search and usage
Information retrieval, filtering and extraction
Innovative applications
Intellectual property
Interoperability issues
Knowledge management
Metadata and cataloging
Mobile services
Multilingual information Access and Multimedia Information
Handling
Multilingual information processing
open source tools and frameworks for digital libraries
Pedagogical issues
Personal and personalized digital libraries
Security and privacy
Social media/Web 3.0 technologies
Social, institutional, and policy issues
System architectures, integration and interoperability
Taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web
Text summarization
Theoretical models for digital information management
Use and impact
User communities
User interfaces and visualization
User interfaces for Digital Libraries
User studies and system evaluation
Paper submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers
including results, figures and references. Paper will be
accepted only by electronic submission through the
conference web site. Prospective authors are expected to
present their paper at the conference.
Proposal for special session
ICDL 2008 will include a number of special sessions.
Proposal for special sessions must include a title,
rationale, session outline, contact information for the
session chairs, a list of authors who have agreed to present
paper in the session, and abstract of each paper. If any of
these requirements is missing in a proposal, it will not be
accepted. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted
to the conference secretariat before deadline.
