European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Towards the European Digital Library

ECDL2008, the 12th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences, will be held in Aarhus (Denmark) from September 14 to September 19, 2008.

ECDL has become the major European conference on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers, and users in the field.

ECDL2008 is jointly organised by the State and University Library and Aarhus University.

Conference focus

ECDL2008 will provide an opportunity to present and discuss new research and development in areas supporting an ambition of the Ubiquitous Digital Library, a vision where information can be easily accessed in the user environment and where new objects can be produced by analyzing, processing and combining existing information.

Topics of contributions include:

Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content
Collection building, management and integration
System architectures, integration and interoperability
Information organisation, search and usage
Multilingual information access and multimedia content management
User interfaces for digital libraries
User studies and system evaluation
Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical and legal issues
Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning, e-government, cultural heritage, etc.
Web 2.0 and associated technologies

Contributions consist of peer reviewed papers, posters and demos. In addition the conference will feature tutorials, workshops, panels & themes, as well as doctoral consortium.