ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Libraries '94
Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
An unprecedented opportunity exists for forming a community of scholars to study the theory and practice of digital libraries. The catalyst has been the Digital Library Initiative, jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation, ARPA, and NASA. In preparing responses to the call for proposals, hundreds of researchers have spent uncounted thousands of hours evaluating and re-evaluating the characteristics of a digital library. Innovative, exciting alliances have been formed, bringing together distributed teams drawn from independent research laboratories, client organizations, and industrial entities. In the past few months we have seen what is certainly the greatest collective application of thought to date on issues of digital libraries.
Because of their competitive nature, proposals are often developed in private, and the insights that are gained are shared only within the small group of participants. Now that the deadline has passed, we propose that it is time to turn our attention towards dissemination of these insights. By doing so, we can significantly increase the level of sophistication of our collective understanding of the problem area, and begin to take the steps towards building a wide-ranging, open, research community that reflects the diversity of knowledge needed to address the problems of digital libraries.
CALL FOR PAPERS We welcome your participation in Digital Libraries '94, which we expect will inaugurate a new conference series. Because attendance may be limited by the size of our facilities, prospective attendees are asked to submit either a full paper or a short position statement. Full papers, 10 pages or less, will be considered for presentation at the symposium. Papers accepted for presentation will be printed in a proceedings that will be distributed at the symposium. Essentially all topics relating to the design, implementation, and use of a digital library are welcome as the subject of full papers.
Short position statements should be one or two pages in length. Position statements accepted for participation in the symposium will be available at the symposium for attendees' perusal.
Full papers and position statements may be submitted by a team, but we ask that in this case you let us know how many team members wish to attend the symposium to aid in our space budgeting decisions. Prospective attendees are asked to contact us now to be added to our mailing list for symposium announcements.
Key Dates and Contact Information
April 1, 1994 Full papers and position statements due April 20, 1994 Acceptance notification May 15, 1994 Final version of papers and statements due June 19-21, 1994 Symposium (College Station, TX)
Full papers and position statements should be sent in electronic form in PostScript (preferred) or ASCII format. We prefer incoming FTP; please contact us for additional instructions.
Digital Libraries '94
Hypermedia Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3112
Electronic mail: DL94[_at_]bush.cs.tamu.edu
Telephone: (409)-845-0298
FAX: (409)-847-8578
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairs: Richard Furuta and John Leggett, Texas A&M University
Robert Akscyn (Knowledge Systems), Steve Feiner (Columbia University), Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech), Gary Marchionini (University of Maryland), Catherine Marshall (Xerox PARC), John Schnase (Washington University School of Medicine), David Stotts (University of North Carolina). Other members will be named.
Sponsored by Texas A&M University, Hypermedia Research Laboratory Washington University School of Medicine Library In Cooperation With ACM SIGLINK and SIGIR (pending) The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation The Center For Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University (others pending and welcome)
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