ACM DL'96 Call for Participation

Call for Participation

ACM DL'96 --- Digital
Libraries '96

First ACM International Conference on
Digital Libraries

Bethesda, MD
March 20-23, 1996

ACM Digital Libraries '96 is an international conference devoted to advancing the state-of-the-art in digital libraries. The ACM DL series continues the sequence of Texas conferences: DL'94 in College Station and DL'95 in Austin. The leaders of those events are helping with DL'96 organization and program efforts. The meeting will be colocated  with Hypertext '96 in 1996 and with ACM SIGIR '97 the following year. DL '96 will immediately follow Hypertext '96 at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Maryland. The site is located near the Washington D.C. Metro and provides easy access to the many attractions in the Baltimore-Washington area.

The DL series is sponsored by ACM, through SIGIR and SIGLINK. Other ACM SIGs have joined in cooperation, including: SIGAda, SIGART, SIGBIO, SIGCAPH, SIGCOMM, SIGCUE, SIGDA, SIGMIS (formerly SIGBIT), and SIGOIS.

In-cooperation sponsors include:

ASIS (American Society for Information Science), CNI (Coalition for Networked Information), IEEE CS (IEEE Computer Society)
KSI (Knowledge Systems Inc.),
LITA (Library and Information Technology Association),

LoC (Library of Congress),
NAL (National Agricultural Library),
NLM (National Library of Medicine),
SLA (Special Libraries Association).

The Conference will include approximately 20 research papers, several panels, two keynote addresses, posters, and three sessions devoted to the working groups of the Digital Library Forum. Short tutorials will be offered on Wednesday March 20 and post-conference workshops will be held on Saturday March 23. Conference attendees will receive the Conference Proceedings published by ACM Press.

Topics include:
* architectures, reference models, standards

• authoring and electronic publishing
• cataloging, indexing, preserving
• collaborative environments
• collecting, capturing, filtering
• distributed data, knowledge and information representation and systems
• economic and social implications and issues
• education, learning and related applications
• evaluation methods and user testing
• handling of graphics, GIS, multimedia information
• hypertext and hypermedia systems (especially including WWW) and support
• information storage and retrieval
• intellectual property rights
• modeling and simulation
• networked information discovery
• networking systems, protocols, security
• publisher plans and concerns
• user interfaces
• visualization, browsing, searching

Registration Information

				Advance		Late
                                (by 2/5)        (after 2/5)
Full Registration
	Member			$240		$280
        Non-Member              $280            $320
	Full-time Student	$100		$100
One day only			$175		$175
Tutorials
	Member			$150		$200
	Non-Member		$180		$230
Workshops
	Member			$ 50		$ 50
	Non-Member		$ 50		$ 50

Members of ASIS, IEEE CS, LITA, and SLA may register at the ACM member rate. The Hyatt Regency has reserved a block of rooms at the conference rate of $113/night for the conference. Bethesda, MD is served by three airports (Baltimore-  International, Dulles International, and National) and the Washington Metrorail has a station at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Complete registration and accommodations information will be posted when the program is finalized in mid December.

Further information is available at:
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/

Important Dates:

February 5, 1996 --- Advanced registration ends March 20, 1996 --- DL `96 Tutorials
March 21-22, 1996 --- DL `96 Technical Program March 23, 1996 --- DL `96 Workshops Received on Sun Oct 29 1995 - 23:03:16 GMT