Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Keywords: Libraries, Research and development, Information technology,Electronic books, Conferences, Europe
The third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'99) will be held in Paris, France on 22-24 September 1999. The event is co-organised by Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The conference will take place at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
This will be the third of a series of European conferences, following Pisa in 1997 and Heraklion in 1998. Its main objective is to bring together researchers to present their work on enabling technologies for digital libraries. It will also provide an opportunity for scientists to develop a research community in Europe focusing on digital library development.
The main topics for the conference will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Digital library models, frameworks and architectures
System integration, interoperability and scalability issues
Information retrieval, navigation and indexing
Multimedia information management, digitisation (image, graphic, video,sound)
Electronic authoring, publishing multilinguality
Metadata, knowledge representation, agent technologies
Information economies and business models for digital libraries
Experiments in digital library system development
More information can be found at: English: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/EuroDL99
Source: Press release
