7th   INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF
ASIAN
DIGITAL
LIBRARIES

 

Dec. 13－17.2004 Shanghai P.R.China
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Topics

Service and Management
New forms and models of DL services;
Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation;
User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern;
Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability;
Knowledge management and its application in DL;
New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century.
Live reference service
Personalization service

Collaboration and Localization
Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region;
Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture;
Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing.
Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia.
Technology
Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL;
Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage;
Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and 　 searching, machine translation and machine learning;
Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps;
Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization;
Technical standards、protocol in DL area and implication strategies;
Grid technologies and digital libraries
E-publication
Tutorials

1. Prof. Hsinchun Chen: (Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona, USA)
opic: Knowledge Management Systems: Development and Applications
2. Prof. Edward Fox: (Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Topic: Digital Library: Overview and Framework
3. Prof. Zhang Xiaolin: (Library of Chineses Academy of Scinece, China)
Topic: Metadata in Digital Libraries
4. Prof. Erich Neuhold: (Integrated Publication and Information System Institute, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Topic: Personalization/Collaboration in Digital Libraries 
5.Prof. Su-Shing Chen (Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Genetics Institute, and Brain Institute,University of Florida, Director, Lab for IT Enterprises,USA)
 Topic: Digital Enterprises and E-Commerce Systems
6. Prof. Ian Witten: (Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Topic: Building digital libraries using open source software