[Irtalk] ICDK 2011 : Call for Papers and Registration

Thu Jun 24 13:58:40 SAST 2010

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Dear Members,
Please find the following conference details to be held in India during Feb 14-16, 2011.
With best Regards,

Dr Shamprasad Pujar
Deputy Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai-400 065, India

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Subject: ICDK 2011 : Call for Papers and Registration

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers  & registration of the forthcoming International Conference  on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011) to be jointly organized by Management Development Institute (MDI) and  Indian Association for Special Libraries & Information Centres (IASLIC)  during 14-16 February 2011.

Background & Objectives
The advancement of Digital Library technologies provide an effective medium for Library  & Information professionals to reach out to the users as never before.   Same time, the rapid proliferation of the digital resources poses an  unprecedented challenge to information professionals in generating efficient  information services.   

Libraries and information centres have long been involved in systematically organizing knowledge using techniques such as indexing and classification.  These traditional knowledge organization tools lay the foundation for modern knowledge organization languages in the digital era.  Knowledge  organization systems can improve the organization of digital libraries and facilitate  better access to their content. In a technology driven world, libraries play a  crucial role in the fostering of knowledge for development.
 The goal of the conference is to bring together librarians,  information engineers, educators as well as experts and professionals in other  related fields, from both India and aboard, to exchange ideas and share research findings about digital libraries and knowledge organization. The  conference will generate valuable ideas for advancing services for knowledge  creation through research.

The conference will focus on the theoretical and methodological issues involved in the  qualitative, longitudinal study of the developers, users, policy makers, etc.,  involved in the development of digital libraries.  It will provide a forum where  these theoretical and methodological interests and insights may be advanced, exchanged, and debated, and where experiences with differing  technologies, contexts, and methodologies may be compared and contrasted.

The specific objectives of the conference are:
·         To provide a forum for scholars from different fields and backgrounds to  share their views and perspectives on how to advance research in the area of  digital libraries and knowledge organization tools and techniques. 
·         Identifying best practices in all the spheres of digital library development and  knowledge organization. 
·         To provide strategic directions for the development of digital libraries 
·         To prepare a sustainable knowledge organization framework for digital  library development 
Themes (but not limited to)

Digital      Libraries Development 

Tools and      Techniques for Managing Digital Repositories 

Digital Resource      Management Strategies 

Evaluation of      Digital Libraries 

Content      Development: Tools and Techniques 

Cultural Issues      of Online Services 

Technology      Issues in Online Services 

Standards and      Specifications for Digital Objects 

Metadata      Standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks 

Case Studies of Digital      Libraries and Institutional Repositories 

Multilingual      Digital Libraries 

Digital      Preservation Strategies 

Web Retrieval      Tools and Strategies 

Information      Retrieval in Indian Languages 

User Interface      and Patron Interactions Tools 

Open Source Software      Tools for Digital Library Development 

Open Access      Initiatives, Open Access Repositories 

Open Access for      Scholarly Contents 

Information      Management Using Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies 

Social      Networking Tools for Information Services 

Knowledge      Organization Techniques 

Knowledge      Representation Models 

Emergent      Techniques for Search Algorithms and Context Sensitive Indexing 

Semantic Web      Technologies for Knowledge Representation and Management 

Ontologies and      Approaches to Building Ontologies 

Important Dates:
Submission of full paper                                                   : September 30, 2010
Workshop/tutorial proposal                                              : August 10, 2010
Notification of acceptance with reviewers? comments    : October 30, 2010
Submission of the final paper                                           : November 30, 2010

For further  information about the conference, please visit the conference site at <http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html>http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html

Dr Antony Jose
Convener ICDK-2011
Management Development Institute (MDI)
Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali
Gurgaon - 122 007-2  INDIA
Phone  : +91<http://xisbn.worldcat.org/liblook/resolve.htm?res_id=http://libcat.dartmouth.edu&amp;rft.isbn=1244560324&amp;url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book>-124-4560324
Email   :  <http://../../servlet/Compose?To=icdk@mdi.ac.in>icdk at mdi.ac.in
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