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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"> ** Sorry for Cross Postings, if any **<br ></SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">Dear Members,</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">Please find the following conference details to be held in India during Feb 14-16, 2011.</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">With best Regards,</SPAN><strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"><br ></SPAN></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Shamprasad Pujar</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deputy Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai-400 065, India<br ></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">Subject:</SPAN></strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"> ICDK 2011 : Call for Papers and Registration</SPAN></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are pleased to announce the call for papers & registration of the forthcoming <strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13pt;">International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011)</SPAN></strong> to be jointly organized by Management Development Institute (MDI) and Indian Association for Special Libraries & Information Centres (IASLIC) during 14-16 February 2011.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Background & Objectives</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">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. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">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.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><br > </strong>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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The specific objectives of the conference are:</p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><SPAN>·<SPAN STYLE="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><font size="1"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial;">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. </SPAN></font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Arial;"><font size="1"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN>·<SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Identifying best practices in all the spheres of digital library development and knowledge organization. </SPAN></font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Arial;"><font size="1"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN>·<SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">To provide strategic directions for the development of digital libraries </SPAN></font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Arial;"><font size="1"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN>·<SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">To prepare a sustainable knowledge organization framework for digital library development </SPAN></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%;"><strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Themes </SPAN></strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">(but not limited to)</SPAN></p>
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<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Digital Libraries Development </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Tools and Techniques for Managing Digital Repositories </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Digital Resource Management Strategies </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Evaluation of Digital Libraries </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Content Development: Tools and Techniques </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Cultural Issues of Online Services </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Technology Issues in Online Services </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Standards and Specifications for Digital Objects </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Metadata Standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Case Studies of Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Multilingual Digital Libraries </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Digital Preservation Strategies </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Web Retrieval Tools and Strategies </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Information Retrieval in Indian Languages </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">User Interface and Patron Interactions Tools </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Open Source Software Tools for Digital Library Development </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Open Access Initiatives, Open Access Repositories </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Open Access for Scholarly Contents </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Information Management Using Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Social Networking Tools for Information Services </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Knowledge Organization Techniques </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Knowledge Representation Models </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Emergent Techniques for Search Algorithms and Context Sensitive Indexing </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Representation and Management </SPAN></LI>
<LI STYLE="line-height: 130%;" CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 130%;">Ontologies and Approaches to Building Ontologies </SPAN></LI>
</UL>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Important Dates:</SPAN></strong></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Submission of full paper : September 30, 2010</SPAN></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Workshop/tutorial proposal : August 10, 2010</SPAN></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Notification of acceptance with reviewers? comments : October 30, 2010</SPAN></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;">Submission of the final paper : November 30, 2010</SPAN></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </SPAN></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><SPAN>For further information about the conference, please visit the conference site at <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html">http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html</A></SPAN></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Dr Antony Jose</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Convener ICDK-2011</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Management Development Institute (MDI)</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Gurgaon - 122 007-2 INDIA</SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Phone : +91<A STYLE="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://xisbn.worldcat.org/liblook/resolve.htm?res_id=http://libcat.dartmouth.edu&rft.isbn=1244560324&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book" CLASS="libx-autolink" TITLE="libx-autolink">-124-4560324</A></SPAN></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 7.5pt;">Email : <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://../../servlet/Compose?To=icdk@mdi.ac.in">icdk@mdi.ac.in</A></SPAN></SPAN></p>
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