The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change

ICADL Call for Papers 2010:

"The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change"

strong>Paper submission deadline extended till midnight, Hawaii time, 1st February!

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Submission of short and full papers for ICADL 2010 is now closed.

All other submissions are are closed, except for Doctor Consortium submissions.

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Fifteen years of intensive research and development have resulted in numerous practical digital libraries and thousands of research publications. It is time to ask whither digital libraries?

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The advancing Web and related technologies have engendered new perspectives with regard to creation, discovery, access and use of information locally and globally. User expectations, behaviour and usage patterns with regard to digital information have changed drastically. Obvious threads in DL research are digital preservation or digital curation, social informatics, and digital libraries as a place for virtual social and intellectual interactions. Rapid socio-economic development in the Asia-Pacific region coupled with increasing globalization have also raised questions of what role digital libraries can play in Asia-Pacific, particularly in cultural heritage preservation, education and economic development.

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With these in view, the theme of the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) 2010 is "The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change".

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Since its inception in Hong Kong in 1998, the ICADL series has become a significant forum for digital libraries research, providing an opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experience and advance DL development. ICADL2010 to be held for the first time jointly with JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from 21-25 June 2010, welcomes submissions. Like the previous conferences in this series, presentations are expected from a variety of fields including computer science, library and information science, information and knowledge management, and humanities and social sciences. We would particularly welcome submissions associated with the theme of ICADL2010: "The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change".

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Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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Submissions may include research, system evaluation, infrastructure and architecture, case studies, social and institutional policy issues, and position papers. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

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• Collection development and management
• Content and knowledge management
• Data and information mining
• Digital library education
• Digital archiving and preservation
• Evaluation and impact of digital libraries
• Electronic publishing and ebooks
• Grid architectures
• Information retrieval and filtering
• Information seeking and use
• Intellectual property
• Interface and interaction design
• Interoperability issues
• Metadata and indexing
• Mobile services
• Multimedia and multilingual digital libraries
• Open Source tools and systems
• Security and privacy
• Social informatics, Web 2.0
• Sustainability in digital libraries
• User communities

Special Track
The following special tracks are introduced in ICADL2010:

1. Digital Curation
2. DL of Asia-Pacific Heritage Materials
3. DL Projects at National Libraries

Authors may submit full or short papers on any of these themes, or choose to showcase their activities during the poster session. When submitting papers to the special tracks, please specify in the topic list of the paper submission system "Special track: Digital Curation", "Special track: Heritage Materials", or "Special track: National Libraries" as appropriate.

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Submission instructions are available here.