CFP: ICDAT 2004 (Deadline extended to Dec. 29, 2003)

** New Submission Deadline : Dec. 29, 2003.

Call for Papers

2004 International Conference on 
Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2004)
 
18-19 March 2004
The Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei, Taiwan
URL: http://3w.howard-hotels.com
Sponsored by 
Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica 
National Science Council, Taiwan
Technology R/D Division, National Digital Archives Program Office, Taiwan 
URL: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT04 
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About the Conference 
Digital archives/libraries are widely recognized as a crucial component of a 
global information infrastructure for the new century.  Research and 
development projects in many parts of the world are concerned about using 
advanced information technologies for managing and manipulating digital 
information, ranging from data storage, preservation, indexing, searching, 
presentation, and dissemination capabilities to organizing and sharing of 
information over networks.  ICDAT 2004 is the second in a series of 
International Conferences on Digital Archive Technologies organized by the 
National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan.  The purpose of this conference is 
to provide unique opportunities for participants to share their research 
results and best practice experiences in the utilization of advanced 
technologies for and the approaches to the development of digital 
archives/libraries.  To furthe
 r facilitate experience interchange between the digital archive specialists 
and delegates!
  of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) member economies, ICDAT 2004 will 
be held in conjunction with the 2004 APEC Workshop on Resource Sharing in 
Digital Libraries (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/APEC04).  The meeting is a 
forum for participants to share their experience in the digital library 
development and explore ways on cooperation and collaboration of digital 
libraries in the Asia-Pacific area.

 
 
Topics 
The intended community for ICDAT 2004 includes those interested in technologies 
and tools for advanced digital archive systems, new knowledge about archival 
storage and preservation, best practices of technology development in digital 
archives, and applications of digital archive technologies.  Participants are 
welcome from a variety of disciplines including computer sciences, library 
information sciences, archival sciences, museum studies and other related 
areas.  ICDAT 2004 invites research submissions on all topics related to 
digital archives/libraries, but topics contributed to technology development 
are strongly encouraged.  The technical issues to be addressed include, but are 
not limited to: 
1.  Digital archive technologies for enhancing security, content preservation, 
multimedia delivery and presentation, system collaboration, information 
retrieval, data exchange, multi-cultural and multi-lingual information sharing, 
and intellectual property protection 
2.  Case studies exemplifying the technology development in libraries, museums, 
archival organizations, digitized governments, medicine and education 
3.  Usability evaluation of digital archive systems
 
 
Important Dates 
Submission Deadline:   December 29, 2003 (extended)

Notification Date:           January 31, 2004

Final Version Due:          February 15, 2004

 
 
Submission Instructions 
Papers should be submitted in English and up to approximately 5000 words.  
There are no formatting requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes 
smaller than 10 points.  The final version of the paper will have to fit within 
15 single-column pages, including all figures and bibliography, so plan 
accordingly.  All submission instructions can be found on the conference web 
site: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT04/c-submission.html.

 
 
Conference Venue and Date 
The conference will be held in the Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei on March 18-19, 
2004.

 
 
Conference Chairman 
Dr. Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan


 
 
Program Chair 
Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 
 
Program Co-Chair 
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 
 
Program Committee 
Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Chao-Chen Chen, National Normal University, Taiwan

Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA

Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 

Hsueh-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 

Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Mun-Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Sung Hyun Myaeng, Information & Communications University, Korea

Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Yen-Jen Oyang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Von-Wen Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

William E. Underwood, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA

Ian Witten, Waikato University, New Zealand 

Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Christopher C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 

 
 
Contact Person 
Ms. Andrea Chen 
Institute of Information Science 
Academia Sinica, Nankang, 
Taipei, TAIWAN 
Tel: 886-2-27883799 ext. 2204 
Fax: 886-2-27824814 
E-mail: achen-3pA+98l8zA9MZQ+1UWixwQIxwlB7+PcL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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