CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

(Extended Early Registration Deadline: 31 October 2005)

The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2005)
Theme: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences

http://icadl.org/2005/

12 - 15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand
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ICADL2005 is the 8th in a well-established series of annual conferences on Asian Digital Libraries, and focuses on the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries. It provides an international forum for sharing experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, library and information science, archival and museum studies, and knowledge management - as well as many areas in the social sciences and humanities.

The highlights of ICADL2005 include:

Keynotes
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1. Ching-chih Chen (Simmons College, USA)
Topic: Thai's Invaluable Memory Celebrated Via Global Memory Net
2. Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona, USA)
Topic: Digital Library Development in the Asia Pacific

Invited Talks
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1. Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG), Germany)
Topic: A Common Grammar for Diverse Vocabularies: the Abstract Model for the Dublin Core
2. Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
Topic: From the WWW and Minimal Digital Libraries, to Powerful Digital Libraries: Why and How
3. Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Topic: Metadata Models toward Community-oriented Metadata Schemas

Paper Presentation Sessions
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14 paper presentation sessions covering a wide spectrum of digital library topics.

Tutorials
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1. Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona, USA)
Title: Knowledge Management Systems: Development and Applications

2. Ching-chih Chen (Simmons College, USA)
Title: Developing Your Own Institutional Visual Memory for Universal Access

3. Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
Title: Learning/Teaching Digital Libraries: An Overview

4. Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Title : New Search and Browsing Technologies for Ambient Multimedia Content

5. Yin-Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Title : Evaluation of Digital Libraries

6. Peter Jacso (University of Hawaii, USA)
Title : Open Access Scholarly Databases on the Web

Panel Discussion (Tentative)
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Title: Library and Information Science Education in
Networked Information Environment

Panelists:
Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
Christopher Khoo (Nangyang Technological University, Singapore)
Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalonkorn Univeristy, Thailand)
Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

City Tours (Free)
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Library and Cultural Tours

Registration (Early Registration Deadline: 31 Oct 2005)
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Please refer to http://icadl.org/2005/registration.htm

Conference Organizers
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- Thai Library Association, Thailand
(http://tla.tiac.or.th)
- Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
(http://www.chula.ac.th)
- Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
(http://www.ait.ac.th)

Organizing Committee Chair
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- Khunying Maenmas Chavalit (Thai Library Association (TLA),
Thailand)

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
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- Vatcharaporn Esichaikul (Asian Institute of Techology, Thailand)
- Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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- Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
- Erich Neuhold (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
- Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)

Local Organizing Committee Chair
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- Jaffee Yee (InfoMedia Asia, Ltd., Thailand)

Steering Committee Chair
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Khunying Maenmas Chavalit, Professor and President,
the Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand.

Steering Committee
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- Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College, USA.
- Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA.
- Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Program Committee
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America
- Robert Allen (Drexel, USA)
- Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA)
- Hsinchun Chen (the University of Arizona, USA)
- Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA)
- James French (Univ. of Virginia, USA)
- Jonathan Furner (UCLA, USA)
- Richard K. Furuta (Texas A&M, USA)
- Peter Jacso (University of Hawaii, USA)
- Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
- Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA)
- Yan Quan Liu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
- Gary Marchionini (Univ. of North Carolina, USA)
- Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
- Edie Rasmussen (U. of British Columbia, Canada)
- Michael Seadle (Michigan State University Libraries, USA)
- Howard Wactlar (CMU, USA)
- James Z. Wang (Penn State University, USA)
- Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA)
- Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, USA)

Asia-Pacific
- Jun Adachi (NII, Japan)
- Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra University, Thailand)
- N.Balakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore, India)
- Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore)
- Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
- Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan)
- Steve Ching (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
- Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
- Schubert Foo (NTU, Singapore)
- Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Maruf Hasan (Shinawatra University, Thailand)
- Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan)
- Ching-chun Hsieh (NDAP, Taiwan)
- San-Yih Hwang (NSYSU, Taiwan)
- Soon J. Hyun (Information Communication University, Korea)
- Hiroshi Itsumura (Nagoya University, Japan)
- Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
- Noriko Kando (NII, Japan)
- Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea)
- Wai Lam (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR)
- Man-Ho Lee (Chungnam National Univ., Korea)
- Jianzhong Li (Harbin Inst. of Technology, China)
- Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
- Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore)
- Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea)
- Takashi Nagatsuka (Tsurumi University, Japan)
- Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (Sirindhorn Intl Inst of Tech, Thailand)
- Liddy Nevile (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
- Somporn Puttapithakporn (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open Univ, Thailand)
- T.B. Rajashekar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
- S. Sadagopan (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)
- Tetsuo Sakaguchi (Tsukaba University, Japan)
- Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
- Praditta Siripan (National Sc & Tech Development Agency, Thailand)
- Ohm Sornil (National Inst of Development Admin, Thailand)
- Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan)
- Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore)
- Shalini Urs (University of Mysore, India)
- Ian Witten (Waikato University, New Zealand)
- Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR)
- Jerome Yen (Chinese University of HK, China)
- Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
- Li-zhu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)

Europe
- Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG), Germany)
- Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal, Portugal)
- Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR),Italy)
- Gobinda Chowdhury (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany)
- Cliff McKnight (Loughborough University, UK)
- Marc Nanard (LIRMM, France)
- Claudia Niederee (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany)
- Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Carol Peters (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy)
- Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Ingeborg Solvberg (Norwegian Univ of Sc and Tech, Norway)
- Harold Thimbleby (University College of London, UK)