*Apologies for cross-postings* ECDL2003-Trondheim, Norway: 17-22 August 2003 http://www.ecdl2003.org/ Submissions are now being accepted for ECDL 2003, the 7th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences. Paper, workshop, panel and tutorial submissions are open until 10 March 2003. Demonstration and poster submissions accepted until 19 May 2003. ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. We welcome contributions and participation from scholars, researchers, developers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines as well as educators, policy makers and users. Contents of this mailing: 1. Submission forms and deadlines 2. Conference topics 3. Program Committee and Conference Chairs See the conference Web site at http://www.ecdl2003.org for comprehensive detail. 1. Submission forms and deadlines -- The **paper submission form** for ECDL2003 is now available at: http://www.ecdl2003.org/PaperReview/ecdl2003/ Deadline for receipt of full and short papers (full text required) is **10 March 2003** The same deadline applies to proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels. The deadline for submission of proposals for **posters and demonstrations** has been extended to **19 May 2003**. For detailed Guidelines on submission for all contributions, browse the Web site or go directly to: http://www.ecdl2003.org/guidelines.htm 2. Conference topics -- The conference will include presentations and discussions about core technical issues as well as applications in fields such as Education; Libraries; Museums; Archives; Government; Health Care and Medicine; Digital Earth/Geospatial; Law; Art and Music; Humanities; Culture; Social Sciences; News and Current Affairs; Information Industry; Environmental Monitoring; Natural Sciences; E-commerce. Contribution topics include but are not limited to: * General concepts, methods, standards, economics and strategies * Collection building, management and integration * Knowledge organization, discovery and retrieval * Architectures and interoperability * Mediation, user interaction and collaboration These broad themes cover many more detailed issues. See the Web site for full information on conference topics. 3. Program Committee and Conference Chairs -- Program Chair: Traugott Koch, NetLab, Lund University, Sweden Program Committee Members: Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy Daniel E. Atkins, University of Michigan, USA Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA Alejandro Bia, University of Alicante, Spain Katy Boerner, Indiana University, USA Jose Borbinha, National Library of Portugal Christine Borgman, University of California Los Angeles, USA Svein Arne Brygfjeld, National Library of Norway Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea Gregory Crane, Tufts University, USA Ron Daniel Jr., Taxonomy Strategies, USA Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC, USA Martin Doerr, ICS FORTH, Greece Matthew Dovey, Oxford University, UK Jacques Ducloy, CNRS INIST, France Dieter Fellner, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Michael Freeston, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Norbert Fuhr, Duisburg University, Germany Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, USA Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK Stefan Gradmann, Hamburg University, Germany Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library, Finland Sigrun Klara Hannesdottir, National Library of Iceland Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia Ole Husby, BIBSYS, Norway Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece Poul Henrik Joergensen, Portia System, Denmark Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences Stephen Katz, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland Juergen Krause, IZ Bonn and University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, USA Ray Larson, University of California Berkeley, USA David Levy, University of Washington, USA Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, USA Michael Mabe, Elsevier Science, UK Elena Maceviciute, Vilnius University, Lithuania and Swedish School of Library and Information Science Kingo Mchombu, University of Namibia Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft-IPSI, Germany Achim Osswald, University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Germany Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Chris Rusbridge, University of Glasgow, UK Hans Joerg Schek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rudi Schmiede, TU Darmstadt, Germany Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Stuart Sutton, University of Washington, USA Costantino Thanos, National Research Council, Italy Elaine G. Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada Doug Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Titia van der Werf, Leiden University, Netherlands Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC, USA Stuart Weibel, OCLC, USA Ian Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Irene Wormell, Swedish School of Library and Information Science Conference Chairs: General Chair Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology Program Chair Traugott Koch NetLab, Lund University, Sweden Organization Chairs Trond Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology Roger Midtstraum Norwegian University of Science and Technology Demonstration Chairs José Luis Borbinha National Library of Portugal Stuart Sutton University of Washington, USA Poster Chairs Ragnar Nordlie Oslo College, Norway Linda Hill University of California Santa Barbara, USA Panel Chairs Anders Ardö Lund University, Sweden Carol Peters IEI-CNR, Italy Workshop Chairs Liz Lyon University of Bath, UK Christine Borgman University of California Los Angeles, USA Tutorial Chairs Andreas Rauber Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ronald Larsen University of Pittsburg, USA Publicity Chair Lesly Huxley ILRT, University of Bristol, UK ---------------------- Dr L Huxley FCIPD : [log in to unmask] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~relh/ Research Director/Acting Institute Director ECDL2003 Publicity Chair Institute for Learning and Research Technology 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH, UK Tel: +44 117 928 7196 Fax: +44 117 928 7112