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Dear friends and colleagues,
for the fourth year in a row we are organizing the workshop on Very Large
Digital Libraries (@TPDL in Berlin, September 2011). We ask you the favor to
circulate the CFP in attachment to whoever you believe could be interested
in submitting a paper, including yourself of course ;)
For more: http://www.delos.info/vldl2011
Ciao,
Paolo
Fourth Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Fourth Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries"
"...on the marriage between Very Large Digital Libraries and Very Large Data
Archives..."
Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2011
Web site: http://www.delos.info/vldl2011
E-mail: [email protected]
In conjunction with TPDL 2011 (http://www.tpdl2011.org)
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###### Workshop Objectives ######
Todays information society is confronted with the data deluge issue and is
requesting for Digital Libraries that are capable to effectively serve broader
and challenging scenarios. Information seekers are willing to have immediate
and effective access to human knowledge that differently from the past very
often is produced and disseminated through heterogeneous sources. Such
scenarios call for the development of Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs),
which are very large with respect to various aspects including the number and
type of information objects and collections to be made available, the number of
users to be served, the number of interoperability issues to be resolved, the
number of systems to be federated, the number of heterogeneities to be
reconciled. Although there is no consensus yet on what a VLDL is, there is a
bunch of research issues that comes in tandem with VLDLs and that are worth to
be discussed.
Scholarly communication itself has changed a lot during the last years and is
today driven by open access and enhanced publications having datasets
(e.g., images, videos, XML/RDF files, Linked Data, web sites, databases,
queries, benchmark files) as first class citizens among the research outcomes,
on par of papers. The fourth edition of the Workshop will focus on the problems
emerging from the marriage of very-large Digital Libraries and very-large
Data Archives, in an attempt to manage, combine and interlink datasets with
publications. Such problems include metadata definition, annotations, search,
preservation, provenance, metadata aggregation, etc.
###### Workshop topics ######
The fourth edition of the Workshop will focus on the problems emerging from the
marriage of very-large Digital Libraries and very-large Data Archives, in
an attempt to manage, combine and interlink datasets with publications. Such
problems include metadata definition, annotations, search, preservation,
provenance, metadata aggregation, etc. Further topics of this workshop are of
interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues.
Foundational topics
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Definitional models, for VLDL content, functionality, users, and policies (ref.
DELOS reference model):
* Architectural models for VLDL systems;
* Data models for VLDL content;
* Design methodologies for VLDLs.
System topics
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Ideas, experiments and practical experiences in VLDLs design and implementation:
* Constructing VLDLs as integration and federation of existing DLs;
* User management in VLDLs;
* Security issues in VLDLs;
* Sustainability issues in VLDLs;
* Scalability issues in VLDLs;
* Distribution issues for VLDLs;
* Interoperability issues for VLDLs: content and functionalities;
* Managing content in VLDLs: storage, indexing, integration, aggregation,
preservation, manipulation, and others.
###### Important Dates ######
Research paper submission: June 25th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 25th, 2011
Camera ready version: August 31st, 2011
###### Paper Submission ######
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers in the
field of Very Large Digital Libraries. Submitted manuscripts will have to be in
PDF, limited to 8 pages, written in english and following the guidelines for
the LNCS format provided by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submitted papers will have to explicitly motivate the relation between the
research results they present and the very large digital library issues they
intend to address.
Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process by Program
Committee members. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions
should be revised according to the reviews and at least one author is required
to register and present the paper at the workshop.
Proceedings, including abstracts from the invited speakers and the revised
papers, will become a publication (ISBN-ISSN, publisher to be chosen).
Research papers must be submitted via the workshop submission system, available
at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vldl2011
###### Workshop Organisers ######
- Leonardo Candela, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI),
National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
- Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Informatics, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece;
- Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI),
National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy;
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