News

August 1, 2006

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Dear Colleagues,

The Program and Organizing Committees of the All-Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL'2006) invite you for participation and will be pleased to welcome you at the conference. The State Tourist Complex in the town of Suzdal considered to be one of the Russia unique cultural and historical centers The conference program is available at the RCDL' 2006 web-site. The schedule of the above event provides a transfer of the participants from any of the Moscow airports to the conference site in Suzdal and bringing them back to Moscow after the conference, their accommodation in the hotel, their catering as well as a social program. During the conference free Internet and WI FI facilities will be provided to all participants. We invite you to acquaint with the terms of the participation, and also to send the filled Registration Form to the address and by the deadline given in the Form.

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• SOCIAL PROGRAM

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

July 20, 2006

Preliminary program

Sessions schedule

June 01, 2006

Professor Ian Witten (University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand) will present the following tutorial and invited talk during the RCDL'2006:
Tutorial (2 hours)."Greenstone: Usage, interoperability, and the future"
This tutorial will summarize and demonstrate the current state of the Greenstone digital library software and outline the directions in which it is developing. It will include demonstrations of building digital library collections that include multimedia objects such as images and audio as well as text and metadata from external sources (such as MARC records). Special emphasis is placed on interoperability, including metadata crosswalks, ingesting external OAI-PMH repositories, and serving Greenstone collections over the OAI protocol. It will briefly describe the METS and MODS standards and explain how Greenstone deals with them. It will describe a bridge between DSpace and Greenstone that allows collections built on either system to be exported to the other, and briefly mention an experimental analogous hookup with Fedora. It will introduce some new Greenstone facilities such as the applet version of the Greenstone Librarian Interface that allows users to design, build and maintain collections on a remote computer, and a forthcoming web interface through which remote users can deposit new documents and their metadata, with optional review and checking by a central librarian, and incorporate them into an existing collection incrementally, without re-building it. It will briefly sketch the architecture of Greenstone3, a complete (and fully compatible) reimplementation of Greenstone, and discuss the transition from the old to the new version.
Invited talk (1 hour). "Finding documents and reading them: Semantic metadata extraction, topic browsing and realistic books" What would it take to provide a congenial and comfortable environment for finding and reading books in a digital library? To locate information we need algorithms that extract semantic metadata in forms such as keyphrases, with accuracy and consistency comparable to human indexers. To support this we need comprehensive, detailed thesauri, automatically created, that embody contemporary language and usage. To emulate and enjoy the serendipitous adventures found in real libraries and bookstores we need browsing environments that provide readers with multiple clues in parallel: keyphrases, text excerpts, and supplementary knowledge structures-as well as the documents themselves. For readers to cherish and enjoy individual works we need to transcend the bland reading environment provided by the web by recreating the subjective impact and pleasurable experience of interacting with real books. This paper describes research that aims to achieve these goals.

May 15, 2006

Professor Piero BAGLIONI (Department of Chemistry and CSGI, University of Florence) has accepted an invitation to give the following invited talk at the RCDL'2006: "Nanoscience for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and the Emergence of a Powerful Digital Image Collection". Short Bio of Professor Piero BAGLIONI.

April 24, 2006

Dr. Ching-chih Chen, Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA accepted the invitation to give a key-note talk at the RCDL'2006 with a tentative title "The Reality of Global Digital Library for Universal Access: The Case of Global Memory Net" addressing also topics listed in the RCDL'2006 CfP. Short but latest biographical information of Dr. Ching-chih Chen can be found at: pdf-format. Recently Dr. Ching-chih Chen was announced to be a winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2006

Key-note talk "The Reality of Global Digital Library for Universal Access: The Case of Global Memory Net": With the exciting convergence of content, technology, and global collaboration in this digital era, there are unprecedented potentials as well as challenges for developing digital libraries of all kinds. This talk will discuss how a world digital library and gateway, Global Memory Net (supported by the National Science Foundation's International Digital Library Program) has managed to use the Web as a platform to develop its application using the in-house developed i-M-C-S system (Integrated Multimedia Content Retrieval System) to integrate seamlessly all types of multimedia resources. In describing the potentials of this digital age, the speaker will elaborate on the concept of a global digital library which she advocated as early as in 1993, and will address the multiple challenges of such a world digital library, such as retrieval, multi-format and multi-type contents development, multilingual, service provision and not publishing, etc: The i-M-C-S system has been developed to include these capabilities to meet the challenges. Users of Global Memory Net can also create their own projects by using the images of Global Memory Net as well as contribute their own resources. She will also show that in addition to the rich digital image resources of Global Memory Net's own - over 30 collections consisting including many from its content collaborators, such as UNESCO, Library of Congress' Asian Division, etc., over 2400 world digital collections from over 80 countries are also available for instant access. Global Memory Net also provides access to information to national libraries of over 230 countries, many of which do not have web presence. Although the current focus of Global Memory Net is culture, history and heritage, but its system is subject insensitive, and can be instantly used to develop applications in any other fields. Collaboration with subject specialists is one the keys to the success of such type of development.

April 17, 2006

Submissions of extended abstracts RCDL'2006 are continued to May 3, 2006.
With best wishes for successful participations!

March 17, 2005

Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP'2006) will be collocated with the RCDL'2006. For more information please visit ROMIP web site

March 30, 2006

Online registration form for participating in the conference has started. You can submit your abstract for reviewing via this system. Preliminary registration is necessary. See, please, guidlines to contributors of extended abstracts.

March 28, 2006

First Call for papers (pdf-format) was sent.