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Tarina Ayazi (tarina@iei.pi.cnr.it)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:49:12 -0500 (CDT)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
for Digital Libraries

1-3 September 1997

Palazzo dei Congressi
Via Matteotti, 1
Pisa, Italy

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

This conference is the first of a series of European
conferences on research and technology for digital libraries
partially funded by the CEU TMR Programme. In particular its
objectives are: to bring together researchers from multiple
disciplines whose science relates to the development of
digital libraries; to provide an opportunity for these
scientists to form a research community in Europe specific
to digital library development and to enable them to discuss
issues and strategies specific to the European context; to
assist young researchers in establishing relationships with
senior scientists in their areas of interest; to enable
review and discussion of research under way in Europe, the
US, Japan and other countries on digital libraries; to
stimulate researchers, especially young scientists, to
explore new areas of interest in digital library
development; to establish a forum for discussion of issues
specific to Europe such as interoperability, multilinguality
and intellectual property policy and information commerce;
to provide an opportunity for researchers in the relevant
enabling technologies and information sciences to discuss
issues related to interoperability between world-wide
distributed digital libraries.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The Conference will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in
Pisa. The opening session will be at 9.00 a.m. on Monday,
1 September 1997 and the final session will be on the
afternoon of Wednesday, 3 September 1997. Full details on
the scientific programme of the Conference will published on
our Web site by 1 July 1997.

POSTERS AND DEMOS

There will be a special poster and demo session.
Posters will illustrate innovative concepts and prototype
systems now being developed by research projects in the DL
field.
Demos of on-going DL activities will be given by some of the
most important US, European Union and national initiatives. A list of the
demos will be posted on our Web site.

PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in
their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be
distributed at the Conference.

TUTORIALS

A tutorial day will be held immediately before the Conference
on Sunday, 31 August 1997. The aim is to give participants at
the Conference the chance to become better acquainted with
some of the most relevant areas in DL related research.
A series of tutorials have thus been organised by experts in
the various fields.

Full Day Tutorial:

Sunday: 9.30 - 12.30 and 14.30 - 17.30

T1 - Knowledge Management, Information Gathering
and Digital Libraries
by Uwe Borghoff, Laurent Julliard and Remo Pareschi
Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble Lab, France

Half Day Tutorials:

Sunday Morning: 9.00 - 13.00

T2 - Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in
searching digital libraries
by Dagobert Soergel - College of Library and Information
Services, University of Maryland, USA

Sunday Morning: 9.30 - 12.30

T3 - Multimedia Information Retrieval
by Carlo Meghini, Pasquale Savino and Fabrizio Sebastiani
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, CNR, Pisa

T4 - Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications
by Franca Garzotto - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Sunday Afternoon: 14.30 - 17.30

T5 - Metadata
by Carl Lagoze - Cornell University, USA, and
Stuart Weibel - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, USA

T6 - Speech Retrieval: Retrieving Information from
Large Audio Databases
by Gareth Jones - University of Exeter, UK, and
Peter Schauble - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

T7 - Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Usability
by Franca Garzotto - Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and
Paolo Paolini - University of Lecce, Italy

Tutorials will be guaranteed if a minimum of ten participants
are registered by 31 July 1997. If you want to register for a
Tutorial please contact Tarina Ayazi (see Contact Points
below).

More details on the tutorials can be found on the Conference
Web site:

http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/

FELLOWSHIPS

A limited number of fellowships for the Conference and also
for Tutorials are available for young researchers who are
citizens of European Union countries, and Liechtenstein,
Norway or Iceland. The fellowship offers free registration
for the participants and, in special cases where necessary
and appropriately justified, may pay for or reimburse travel
and lodging expenses. The fellowship does not include meals
and social events. In order to apply you must complete the
Application Form and send it together with:
1) a letter of motivation specifying why you require
financial assistance,
including such information as financial conditions, research
interests, work you are carrying out in the field, etc.
2) a letter of recommendation from the head of your
department or equivalent.

REGISTRATION FEES:
Prices quoted below are in Italian Lira

before July 31 After July 31

Conference 350,000 450,000

Tutorial 100,000 150,000
(half-day)

Tutorial 150,000 200,000
(full-day)

The Conference Registration fee includes coffee breaks and
the Proceedings.
On-site lunches will be available at the special price of
Lit. 15,000 (Lit. 10,000 if paid in advance).

PROGRAMME CHAIR:
Costantino Thanos
IEI-CNR
Via S. Maria, 46
56126 Pisa, Italy
e-mail: thanos@iei.pi.cnr.it

CONTACT POINTS:

Conference Secretariat:
Manuela Mennucci IEI-CNR
Tel: +39 50 5934300
Fax: +39 50 593503
E-mail:mennucci@iei.pi.cnr.it

Treasurer and Local Arrangements:
Ettore Ricciardi IEI-CNR
Tel: +39 50 593454
Fax: +39 50 554342
E-mail: ricciardi@iei.pi.cnr.it

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* FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATION FORMS CONTACT: *
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Tarina Ayazi IEI-CNR
Tel: +39 50 593401
Fax: +39 50 593503
E-mail:tarina@iei.pi.cnr.it

See also the Conference Web site, under: http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/

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| Tarina Ayazi | Phone: +39.(0)50.593408 |
| Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione | Fax: +39.(0)50.593503 |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | Telex: 590305 IEICNR I |
| Via S. Maria, 46 - 56126 Pisa (ITALY) | E-mail: tarina@iei.pi.cnr.it |
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