Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar Our apologies for cross postings ICDL 2004 New Delhi 24-27 February 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hon'ble President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has kindly accepted the invitation to be the Chief Guest at the inauguration of the conference on 24 February, 2004 at 1200 hrs at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Digital libraries and knowledge management are innovations, the implementation of which is still nascent in developing countries. However, they hold the promise of becoming key technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future. In February 2003, the Government of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts, aimed at preserving the valuable manuscripts in India. The mission is designed to undertake elaborate surveys, run awareness programmes, and impart training in conservation/preservation techniques. ICDL 2004 would contribute to the objectives of the mission by assembling a galaxy of experts, researchers, and academics from across the world to exchange ideas on digital libraries, and related technologies and issues. Objectives .Bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries .Initiate capacity building activities in digital libraries .Evolve a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries .Provide a forum for facilitating interaction amongst participants .Formulate recommendations on digitization technologies, Acts, and policies Who should participate? .Policy-makers .Library and information science professionals .IT professionals .Archivists and museologists .Content developers and knowledge managers .IT service providers .Information providers and vendors .Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities .All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business Patrons: Mr Jagmohan Hon'ble Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Government of India * Tutorials .Conference sessions .Panel discussions .Business sessions .Exhibition Day 1: 24 February 2004 (Tuesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration for Tutorials and Conference 9.00-10.30 a.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 1A TUTORIAL 1B TUTORIAL 1C Finding information Ontologies and Institutional through the Internet Thesauri repositories and the WWW Nicola Guarino T B Rajashekar Paul Nieuwenhuysen 10.30-11.00 a.m. Tea 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 2A TUTORIAL 2B TUTORIAL 1C Build digital library Knowledge Management Automatic classification of using open source and Systems: development of documents, or the software (GSDL)/ applications automatic generation of Ian Witten Hsinchun Chen metadata/ Fabrizio Sebatiani 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00-4.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 3A TUTORIAL 3B TUTORIAL 3C Dublin Core Metadata: XML/RDF Building DLs using Stuart Weibel Erich Neuhold DSpace, OAI-PMH Version 2, Handle System 12.00-1330 a.m. Conference Inauguration At Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi Inaugural Address By Hon'ble President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Day 2: 25 February 2004 (Wednesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 1 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 1 SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C ePublishing, Digital library Digital library initiatives multimedia, and technology: Digital library planning, development, evaluation and management 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 2 SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Digital library Country initiatives/ Digital library policy issues case studies architecture, network and technology 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSSINESS SESSION 1 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-5.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 3 SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Digital divide Multilingual Metadata issues metadata issues 7.30 p.m. Dinner Day 3: 26 February 2004 (Thursday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 2 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 4 SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Content Knowledge Semantics, thesauri, management management and ontologies 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Copyright issues e-Learning System scalability and digital and inter-operability rights management 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSINESS SESSION 2 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-6.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 6 SESSION 6A SESSION 6B SESSION 6C Archiving and Retrieval systems Human-machine sharing cultural interface, user heritage and interaction history globally Day 4: 27 February 2004 (Friday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 3 9.30-11.00 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 7 SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Manuscript: archiving Digital library Digital library and digitization consortium communities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Tea 11.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 8 SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Futuristics Digital library Digital library services security 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Digital library policy and strategic planning 4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Valedictory session For programme details please go to icdl site: www.teriin.org/events/icdl Advisory Committee Conference Co-chairs .Mr Dhanendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva . Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Members .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi .Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad .Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi .Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Prof. M Tawfik, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka .Dr R K Verma, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India International Programme Committee .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal .Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, University of Arizona, Management Information Systems, McClelland Hall, Tucson, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1, Scotland, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Archives f�d�rales suisses, Archivstrasse, Bern, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Monash University, Australia .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA .Prof. Gary Marchionini, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA .Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of conomics and Political Science, London, UK .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, OH, USA .Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Steering Committee Co-chairs .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator .Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convenor, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library Regional Coordinator South Asia, Goethe Institut, New Delhi .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi .Dr H K Kaul, Director, Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Office and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Center, New Delhi .Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi .Dr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore Eminent speakers .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Computer Science and Information Systems Co-ordinator, Centre for Software Development; Assistant Dean, Distance Learning Programmes Division, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani .Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, Portugal .Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc., VA, USA .Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai .Dr Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA .Prof. Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany .Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .Dr Nicola Guarino, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy .Prof. Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab, Data and Know-ledge Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library, Australia .Dr Ernie Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Professor, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, USA .Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)/UGC, India .Prof. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director and Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany .Dr Liddy Nevile, Adj. Associate Professor, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Australia .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Dr Peter Noerr, Chief Technology Officer, MuseGlobal, Salt Lake City, USA .Dr Douglas W Oard, Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, USA .Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, India .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK .Dr Darren Peacock, Director, Information and Communications Technology, National Museum of Australia, Australia .Dr Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Senior Scientist, Systems Analysis Department, Ris� National Laboratory, Denmark .Dr T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India .Dr Andreas Rauber, Research Fellow, Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .Dr Anshuman Razdan, Director, PRISM, Arizona State University, USA .Prof. Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Concurrent Computing Ltd, UK .Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad .Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University, Germany .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech; USA .Dr Fabrizio Sebastiani, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy .Prof. Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK .Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK .Prof. Ian H Witten, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand .Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan .Ms Xu Yinchi, Professor, Director of Chinese Science Digital Library, Beijing .Prof. Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, pre-conference proceedings, lunches, dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2500 Rs 5500 Rs 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 225 US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (full-time) can avail 50% discount. * 25% special discount for foreign delegates from developing countries. Registration A registration form is sent along with this announcement brochure. The form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form, along with the registration fee should be sent to the ICDL 2004 Secretariat. Payment can also be made through any of the following modes: local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi; credit card; and bank transfer. Registration confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation and substitution policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate, by 15 February 2004, the name and other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant. Conference venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India For conference details,contact Mr Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place (India Habitat Centre) Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Telephone: 2465 1629, 2468 2100, or 2468 2111 (extn. 2724) Fax : 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 E-mail : ICDL2004@teri.res.in Web : www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 * Delhi (0)11