Update:

  • The conference proceedings are now available online from the LNCS web site.
  • The list of ICADL 2002 participants is now available.
  • Conference report in January 2003 D-Lib Magazine (January 2003)
  • ICADL 2002 final report (PDF)

Introduction

When Vannevar Bush envisioned his hypertext "memex" in 1945, he dreamed of a personal microfiche-based system that would help him tackle the problem of information overload at that time. In recent years, the information on the Web, the overwhelming example of a shared world-wide collection of information, has been converted into many digital libraries by individuals or groups that select, organise, and catalogue large numbers of documents. We are in the process of creating a global infrastructure that will interconnect many computer networks and various forms of information technologies around the world, digital libraries being one of them.

ICADL 2002 is the fifth in a series of annual Asian Digital Libraries conferences, and focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. The theme of ICADL 2002 is Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge & Technology. The conference is held in conjunction with The 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2002).

Participation from diverse backgrounds is encouraged. Previous conferences have included practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, library and information sciences, archival and museum studies, knowledge management, and many areas in the social sciences and humanities.

Submissions on all areas are welcome and may include research, system, evaluation, policy and position papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

  • social, institutional, and policy issues
  • pedagogical issues
  • document genres and electronic publishing
  • collection development and management
  • intellectual property
  • provision of services
  • user Communities
  • web cataloging
  • metadata and content
  • digital preservation
  • digital archives and museums
  • knowledge management
  • content management
  • digital library infrastructure and architecture
  • human-computer interaction
  • information retrieval
  • information mining
  • ontology-based services
  • semantic web
  • semistructured data management
  • text categorization
  • web information gathering
  • information filtering
  • information extraction
  • hypertext and multimedia
  • security and privacy

and associated theoretical and practical topics.

 

ICADL 2002 Organisers

ICADL 2002 is organized by the Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in collaboration with


National Library Board of Singapore 		 
Nanyang Technological University Library
 
 

National University of Singapore Libraries 		 
Library Association of Singapore
 
 

Library Information Technology Association of Singapore 		 
 
 
 

About ICADL

The International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual Asian event of international participation focusing on Digital Libraries, related technologies, and issues.

The inauguration conference was held in Hong Kong as the First Asia Digital Library Workshop in 1998. Subsequently, it was brought to Taiwan in 1999, Korea in 2000 and India in 2001.

  • ICADL1998 - Hong Kong
    Conference Theme: East Meets West

  • ICADL1999 - Taipei, Taiwan

  • ICADL2000 - Seoul, South Korea

  • ICADL2001 - Bangalore, India
    Conference Theme: Digital Libraries: Dynamic Landscape for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Management.

The scope of ICADL encompasses the full range of digital library research and practice including but not limited to information systems of all levels of digital content and granularity, means and techniques of selecting, collecting, organizing and distributing digital content; all manner of document genres and electronic publishing; searching and finding information; diverse techniques of system design, development, and implementation, interface design, hypertext/hypermedia, metadata, resource discovery and federated search.