For immediate release:
July 16, 2008
For more information, contact:
Joan Lippincott
Coalition for Networked Information
joan@cni.org
202-296-5098
Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) along with DEFF and DELOS are co-sponsoring the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), which will take place September 14–19, 2008, in Aarhus, Denmark. The deadline for early registration with a reduced registration fee is July 31, 2008.
The program will feature three invited talks, 38 paper presentations, a panel discussion, and two poster/demo sessions. The conference is preceded by a day of tutorials and followed by two days of workshops. The conference will therefore provide ample opportunities for discussing hot issues in digital library research.
The invited talks are:
Brewster Kahle, “Universal Access to All Knowledge”
Carole Gobles, “Curating Services and Workflows: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly”
Daniel Teruggi, “Users—Usability—User Requirements—User Friendly…Are These Concepts the Center of Every Project?”
For more information and to register, please visit the conference Web site http://www.ecdl2008.org/.
The conference Organising Committee General Chair and Programme Chairs—Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Bolette Ammitzbøll Jurik, Donatella Castelli, and Joan Lippincott—hope to see you in Aarhus.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is a coalition of some 200 institutions dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. The Coalition, which is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, is headquartered in Washington DC. CNI is on the Web at http://www.cni.org/.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.