MCDL Deadline Extension

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* Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries *
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Deadline extension: May 1, 2003!!!

Distributed Digital Libraries throughout the world are beginning to organize, 
store, and manage large amounts of human knowledge for universal remote access 
any where any time. While traditional libraries were normally built to house 
collections of print-based information resources (such as books and journals), 
digital libraries can store information resources in many other forms, 
including images, sound, video, graphics, programs, etc. Thus, with the 
development of appropriately sophisticated user interfaces and the deployment 
of advanced technologies and techniques, users of digital libraries can clearly 
obtain more complete and more comprehensive information than traditional 
libraries provide.

How to acquire, organize, store, manage, and use these multimedia contents 
effectively and efficiently are central questions for subject specialists, 
end-users, library and information scientists and computer scientists.  For 
example, how can subject specialists harness IT to help all levels of users 
gain meaningful access to content in poor physical shape, in surrogate formats, 
and to enhance their abilities to understand and learn the subjects under 
study?   How can library and information scientists develop effective ways to 
create metadata, integrate annotations in these contents for indexing to 
facilitate better access and retrieval, and to promote the easy use of these 
resources?   How can computer scientists help structure these contents into 
semantic units (objects) which will be indexed and interconnected with other 
objects in a variety of ways allowing flexible access, browsing, semantic 
integration, presentation, and personalization according to the application fu!
 
 nctionality and the user preferences and goals.

Application areas of digital libraries with multimedia contents cover all 
subject fields, ranging from art and culture, archaeology, and history, to 
sciences, medicine, and engineering.  In addition to traditional texts, they 
come in a great variety of formats.  For example, in the cultural and heritage 
areas, the types of contents consists of art objects, sculptures, paintings, 
manuscripts, to handmade scripts on vellum, wood, stone, clay, etc. Users of 
digital libraries include the general public, students of all levels, subject 
experts, and knowledge managers. The use of these digital libraries may 
therefore vary from simple curiosity and casual learning to high-level research 
and development. The ways of interaction may be highly personalized and may 
depend on the mode and location of access. Users may often access and 
synthesize multimedia contents from heterogeneous distributed digital 
libraries. The contents of digital libraries will naturally evolve and new 
approache!
 
 s may be able to adapt to other user communities with new preferences and 
requirements.

Topics
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Research papers up to 5 pages are solicited in all the research issues of 
multimedia contents in digital libraries including:

*       advanced user interfaces to contents of digital libraries,
*       integration of low-level semantic objects (shape, color, texture) with 
high-level semantic meanings of the contents
*       content generation, transformation, security and preservation,
*       content structuring and adaptation for efficient access and browsing,
*       automatic and manual encoding for enhanced content addressability and 
browsing,
*       use and extensions of standards for encoding contents, and domain 
specific  ontologies for indexing, summarizing, and otherwise specifically 
encoding contents,
*       intelligent search and retrieval agent,
*       standard compatibility and mappings for contents,
*       personalization of querying, reformulation, browsing, and interaction 
with contents,
*       collaborative access to contents of digital libraries,
*       profiles, stereotypes, profile matching, profile adaptation, profile 
extraction,
*       information access, dissemination, delivery, interaction using diverse 
devices
*       communities of users and digital libraries, and
*       support for learning the content of digital libraries.


Location
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The Workshop will be held in Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2 and 3, 2003.


Workshop Organization
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The workshop is organized in the context of the EU Excellence Network on 
Digital Libraries DELOS, and it is sponsored by DELOS,  the National Science 
Foundation (NSF) of United States, and the Technical University of Crete.


Workshop General Chair: 
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Prof. Stavros Christodoulakis, Department of Electronic and Computer 
Engineering,  Technical University of Crete, Greece.


Workshop Program Committee Co-chairs:
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Prof. Ching-chih Chen, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 
Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA.
Prof  Stavros Christodoulakis, Department of Electronic and Computer 
Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece



Workshop Program Committee:
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To be announced at a later date.


Paper Submission Guidelines
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Original research papers up to 5 pages long should be submitted by May 1, 2003 
in both Microsoft WORD and Acrobat PDF formats via email to either one of the 
Program Co-Chairs' email addresses:

Prof. Ching-chih Chen:               
chen-Z4c9/L5oVSSVc3sceRu5cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Prof. Stavros Christodoulakis:    
stavros-taE2apzES20Cep0kKqy/Kg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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