Digital Libraries '99 The Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB University of California, Berkeley August 11-14, 1999 Call For Participation http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99 Introduction The Fourth ACM Digital Libraries Conference (DL '99) will be held in Berkeley, California, USA on August 11-14, 1999. The conference hotel will be the Radisson Hotel, Berkeley Marina. Conference sessions will be on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley and at the conference hotel. ACM SIGIR '99 follows immediately after at the same location, to facilitate interchange between the DL and Information Retrieval communities. ACM DL is the major international forum on digital libraries, with an expanded program for the presentation of new research results, the discussion of policy issues, and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques. Computer scientists, librarians, information scientists, archivists and others in academia, government, and industry - from around the globe - who are leaders in the digital library area will present and attend. The conference attracts a broad range of professionals including theoreticians, collection developers, publishers, researchers, educators, policy makers, practicioners, developers, and designers of systems, interfaces, and related applications. Topics DL '99 seeks original contributions in the broad field of digital libraries. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Algorithms: categorization, clustering, filtering, learning, protocols * Applications: data mining, education, visualization * Architecture: agents, bus, distributed, federated * Art, humanities, museums: collection, conversion, markup * Economic, legal and social: authentication, authorization, intellectual property rights, publishing * HCI: design, devices, interfaces, logs, usability * Hypertext/multimedia: authoring, linking, presenting * Information science: information seeking, services * Interoperability: multilingual/multicultural, standards, WWW * Metadata: adaptations, supporting software/systems * Policy: equity, funding, identifiers, international collaboration * Sustainability: archiving, organizational issues, preservation * Theory: formalisms, metrics, models, security Submission Requirements Submissions to DL'99 may be research papers, policy papers, system reports, or may be proposals for posters, demonstrations, panels, tutorials, or workshops. All paper, poster and demonstration submissions should be formatted documents, including appropriate bibliographies. All submissions will be reviewed and must be in English. Details specific to each type of submission are given below. Papers Papers must be submitted electronically as explained in online Submission Instructions (http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/submit.htm). They must be original contributions (that is, not previously published, and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere). Full papers of at most 5,000 words should be submitted with an abstract of not more than 150 words on the first page. Use Times Roman, 11 point, 2 column format just like that required for all three previous proceedings. There will be three categories of full papers: * Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results on all aspects of digital libraries. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative or validation component. * Policy papers: Submissions are invited for discussions of significant policy issues related to the design, implementation, operation, economics, use, and other issues regarding digital libraries. * System papers: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation, and evaluation of operational and prototype digital library systems. The emphasis in such submissions will be on reporting the experience of implementation of the systems and of their use. Posters Poster proposals should be submitted to the Program Chair. Submisssions are invited that fit into any of the paper categories. Posters are especially well suited to graphic and interactive presentation, or to report on work still in progress after the deadline for regular papers. Demonstrations Demonstration proposals should be submitted to the Program Chair. Submissions are invited for formal demonstrations of digital library systems and components. Demonstrations may be live or on video, but must include a written description of the system and its unique characteristics and contributions. At the review stage, video submissions can be either high quality MPEG files or NTSC VHS tapes. Panels Panel proposals should be submitted to the Program Chair. Submissions are invited for panel presentations dealing with significant, controversial and timely issues. Panel sessions will either be 60 or 90 minutes in length, and must be chaired by an experienced moderator Contact information about the moderator, names and affiliations of panelists, a prose justification, and a detailed topical outline must be supplied. Tutorials Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the Program Chair. A biographical sketch for the presenter(s), including details on relevant prior experience, as well as a description of the target audience and suitable learning objectives, must accompany a detailed topical outline. Both 1/2 and full-day tutorials, covering basic, intermediate, and advanced topics, will be offered. Workshops Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Program Chair. The aim is to bring together a small group of people involved in a specific problem area of digital libraries, to advance the state-of-the-art and to encourage collaboration in that area. Submissions must include contact and biographical information on the organizers including prior experience, expected audience, planned format, objectives, and a detailed topical outline. Reviewing Process At least 3 members of the Program Committee will be asked to review each paper submission. Chairs for Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Tutorials, and Workshops will coordinate review of those submissions. There will be one Program Committee meeting in Virginia to make final selections. Important Dates and Deadlines (all dates 1999) February 8 Paper submissions due February 15 Tutorial, demonstration, panel, and workshop proposals due April 9 Notification of acceptance of papers April 23 Poster submissions due May 8 Final copy due for all contributions August 11-14 DL Conference Contact Information General Chair: Neil Rowe rowe@cs.nps.navy.mil Department of Computer Science Spanagel 514, Code CS/Rp Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943 USA +1-831-656-2462 +1-831-656-2814 FAX Program Chair: Edward A. Fox fox@vt.edu Department of Computer Science 660 McBryde Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106 USA +1-540-231-5113 +1-540-231-6075 FAX Program Committee Robert M. Akscyn Knowledge Systems Robert B. Allen U. Maryland William Arms CNRI Helen Atkins Inst. for Scientific Info. Nick Belkin Rutgers U. Ann Bishop U. Illinois Urbana Champaign Jose Borbinha Nat. Lib. Portugal (PT) Christine Borgman UCLA Mary Case Association of Research Libraries Tim Finin U. Maryland Baltimore Co. Edward A. Fox (chair) Virginia Tech James French U. Virginia Richard Furuta Texas A&M U. Henry Gladney IBM Almaden Research Center Gene Golovchinsky FX Palo Alto Lab. Jean-Claude Guédon Université de Montréal (CA) Peter Jaszi American U. Rob Kling Indiana U. Carl Lagoze Cornell U. John J. Leggett Texas A&M U. Barry Leiner CNRI David M. Levy Xerox PARC Ee-Peng Lim Nanyang Technological U. (SG) Gary Marchionini U. North Carolina Catherine C. Marshall Xerox PARC Alexa McCray National Library of Medicine Cliff McKnight Loughborough U. (UK) Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam National U. (KR) Desai Narasimhalu Kent Ridge Digital Lab. (SG) Edie Rasmussen U. Pittsburgh Bruce R. Schatz U. Illinois Urbana Champaign Peter Schauble ETH Zurich (CH) Terence Smith U. Ca. Santa Barbara Scott M. Stevens Carnegie-Mellon U. Shigeo Sugimoto U. of LIS (JP) James Thomas Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab. Roger Thompson OCLC Jennifer Trant Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Stu Weibel OCLC Terry Winograd Stanford U. Ian H. Witten U. Waikato (NZ)