Submit Your Work on Digital Libraries! (Update 8/6/97)

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Special Section of CACM, April 1998 (DEADLINE PAST)

CACM will assign up to 20K words (1-5 full-length papers, possibly mixed with a number of smaller pieces), as explained at http://www.acm.org/cacm/Authors.html. The theme is Progress toward an International Digital Library.

Special Issue of Information Processing and Management in 1998

IP&M will devote a special issue, with full-length papers up to 4000 words, and brief communications up to 1200 words, on the theme of Digital Libraries and Information Discovery / Retrieval / Browsing.

Courseware Repository for Teaching about Digital Libraries by 1998

To help with teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on digital libraries, materials will be collected for a courseware repository. This will extend the CS collection now available as partial result of NSF support at http://ei.cs.vt.edu. Primary materials are preferred, but URNs (not URLs - we want the relative permanence of PURLs or handles) also will be accepted. Any materials that can be freely released on WWW are requested: proceedings, articles, reports, running demonstrations, screen dumps, lecture notes, exercises, quizzes, etc.

Deadlines and Submission Details

CACM Deadline Aug. 1 - CLOSED

IP&M and Courseware Submissions deadline extended to 11/15/97

For more information see http://fox.cs.vt.edu/SubDL/ or contact fox@vt.edu

Send mail or courier deliveries to Professor Edward A. Fox, Dept. of Computer Science, 660 McBryde Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, phone 540/231-5113

Additional Information

Editorial Issues

• Ed Fox and Gary Marchionini will be the guest editors for both the CACM and IP&M special issues. Ed Fox will coordinate the Courseware Repository effort.
• The two special issues have different themes and different audiences in mind. Authors should indicate with each submission which of the two special issues they are targeting. The editors will only consider another target after discusion with the author(s) following submission of letter/message of intent. Both special issues will be reviewed. Date of publication for each is planned for sometime in 1998, but the date of each may vary.
• CACM policies are summarized in their guidelines which should be carefully studied. They fit in well with the special section theme, which encourages submissions on but not limited to:
  • how efforts around the world will lead to a seamless and interoperable virtual digital library;
  • national, regional and other efforts crossing barriers of geography, language, and culture; and
  • marrying all the related technologies with reals needs, such as in education and research.
• The IP&M special issue will focus on technology relating to making text and multimedia information available, through classification, categorization, indexing, searching, retrieving, visualizing, linking, browsing and manipulating information. Real systems that have been implemented and tested, controlled studies reporting significant findings, methods that have been validated, and other high quality research should be reported.

Courseware Repository

The Courseware Repository project is funded as part of a supplement to the NSF-supported project on Interactive Learning with a Digital Library in Computer Science. It will have works or pointers to:

• online syllabi, course material;
• online demos, illustrations, screen dumps, simulations, testbeds ready to use;
• reports, bibliographies; and
• posters, short articles, long articles.

We hope to be comprehensive, and to complement the D-Lib repository since our focus is to support education and training. All efforts from any region of the world, in any language, are welcome, as long as copyright rules are followed.

A special attempt will be made to collect materials related to the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative, through individual visits during summer 1997.

Virginia Tech courses on digital libraries, CS3004 (an honors course at the junior level) and CS6604 (an advanced graduate course) will have all materials available for others to use, and will draw on the rest of the repository.