Conference CFP: Advances in Digital Libraries '97

=========================== ADL'97 CFP ==================== ADL '97 Forum Call for Papers/Participation Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. SPONSORS: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; The National Library of Medicine; The IEEE Computer Society; and The Library of Congress. IN COOPERATION WITH: Columbia University, George Washington University, Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration & Connectivity, The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and The University of Texas at Austin. Digital Libraries is an emerging field that encompasses technologies for information acquisition, processing, distribution, and access, and harnesses these technologies for diverse areas of human needs including education, science, commerce, medicine, and the arts. Successful application of digital libraries will provide people with universal access to virtually all areas of human knowledge with a concomitant hope of improving their health, education, and economic well-being as well as their quality of life. The purpose of this forum is to highlight the important current issues in digital libraries through research papers, panels and invited talks by leading experts, and innovative prototypes and applications of digital library technologies in science and industry. ADL97 will feature novel applications and the associated issues in Arts and culture Environmental change Global marketplaces Health and medicine Socio-economic impacts A summary of the issues discussed will be made available to all forum participants. Papers describing technical advances are solicited in Human-computer interaction Knowledge integration Resource management Systems interoperability Searching and browsing Authoring and scripting systems Collaborative research Standards Intelligent agents User interfaces Telecommunications and networking Information representation Resource discovery Scalability Technical issues in intellectual property Computing environments for creating DL objects Billing mechanisms, accounting and payment systems Novel indexing techniques for multimedia objects Information to Authors: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts (not to exceed 10000 words) or panel proposals (not to exceed 1500 words) by October 31, 1996 in postscript format to adl@cs.columbia.edu . Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 1996. For more information about the technical program, contact the program chair: Professor Alfred Aho Department of Computer Science 500 West 120th Street, Room 450 Columbia University New York, NY 11025 aho@cs.columbia.edu 212-939-7004 Information to Exhibitors: Student Exhibition : Competitive Selection. Apply NOW. Please contact: Dr. Susan Hoban Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 susan.hoban@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-7980 - voice The homepage of ADL'97 Forum Call for Paper/Participation is http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl97/adlcall.html Any additional questions can be forwarded to Georgia Flanagan georgia@cesdis.usra.edu =========================== ADL'97 CFP (end) ===================