EMERGING FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES PERSPECTIVES, EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY (2011 – 12) March 13 – 14, 2012 Organizers Department of Library and Information Science University of Kashmir Schedule Conference Date: March 13-14, 2012 Important Dates Paper Submission: February 15, 2012 Acceptance of Papers: February 28, 2012 Registration: January 01, 2012 to March 01, 2012 Main topics and subtopics (but not limited to) are: Digital Libraries: Knowledge Advocacy Ø Global Level Activities Ø Regional Level Activities Ø Digital Literacy Ø Digital Libraries: Social, Technical and Economic Perspectives Ø Digital Libraries: Educational programmes and Policies Ø Organizational and Psychological Issues Digital Libraries: Technologies & Standards Ø Digital Publishing Technologies Ø Digital publishing Standards Ø Metadata and Interoperability Ø Interoperability Standards Digital Libraries: Development & Engineering Perspectives Ø Information Architecture, Configuration. Ø Digital Content Creation Ø Digital Library Development: Tools and Infrastructures Ø Digital Library Models Ø Open Source Softwares for Digital Libraries Digital Libraries: Semantics Ø Web 2.0 and 3.0 Ø Semantics 2.0 and 3.0 Ø Artificial Intelligence Ø Ontologies Ø Content Indexing and Rating Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval Ø Information Retrieval Models Ø Vocabulary Control Ø Search Strategies and Techniques Digital Libraries: Social Networks Ø Resource Sharing and Social Networks Ø Impact of Social Networks on the Digital Library Services Digital Publishing, Libraries, Archives & Museums Ø Preserving Heritage and Culture Ø Encoded Archival Description Ø Digital publishing and information services Ø Digital publishing platforms for libraries, archives and museums Digital Libraries: Use & User Studies Ø Use and User Studies Ø Usage Metrics: Tools & Techniques Ø User Studies: Information Needs, pattern and Information Seeking Behaviour Digital Libraries, museums and Archives: Initiatives & Case studies Ø Audiovisual and Multimedia Libraries Ø Children libraries Ø Physically Challenged libraries Ø Public libraries Ø Museums and archives Digital Libraries: Rights Management Ø Legal Issues Ø Intellectual Property Rights Ø Access Management , Security and plagiarism Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, . -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.