------ apologies for cross postings----- The deadline for paper submission to ICADL 2003 has been extended to July 20-please note- ---------------More details follows----- CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Paper Submission Deadline: 20 July 2003) ================================================================== The 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003) Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kuala Lumpur, 8-11 December 2003 http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/ICADL2003/ Digital libraries are a critical component of the emerging distributed knowledge environments that will provide people with global access to virtually all areas of knowledge. ICADL 2003 is the sixth in a series of annual Asian Digital Libraries conferences. This year's Conference, hosted by the National Library of Malaysia and the Librarians Association of Malaysia will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 8th-11th December 2003. Topics ------ The Conference welcomes paper submissions (both long and short) that are relevant to the following topics (but are not limited to): Information Retrieval Techniques Multimedia Digital Libraries Data Mining in Digital Libraries Human Computer Interfaces Digital Library Infrastructures Cryptography and Compression Data Storage and Retrieval Digital Library Services DL for Community Building Building & Using DLs Knowledge Management Standards and Conventions IP Rights & Copyright Privacy and Security Human Resource and Training IR in Asian Languages Special Purpose Digital Libraries Metadata Issues Development of Contents e-Learning and Mobile Learning Paper Submissions ----------------- The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Further details about paper formats and submission procedures can be found from the conference's website. Authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit their journal versions to the Journal of Digital Libraries (JDL), Springer Verlag after the conference. 20 July 2003 (new) Submission of Full Papers 20 August 2003 Notification of Acceptance of Papers 15 September 2003 Submission of Camera Ready Papers Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok, UKM, Malaysia. tmts@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my Halimah Badioze Zaman, UKM, Malaysia hbz@ftsm.ukm.my Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA hchen@eller.arizona.edu Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore aseplim@ntu.edu.sg Shalini R. Urs, University of Mysore, India. shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in Contacts -------- For enquiries about ICADL 2003, please contact the program chairs or: ICADL 2003 Secretariat National Library of Malaysia 232 Jalan Tun Razak, 50572 Kuala Lumpur Tel: 603-26871700 Fax: 603-26927899 Email: saonah@nlm.pnm.my Shalini ------------- Prof.Shalini R.Urs Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in