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.