Paper Submission

Conference Topics

Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Strategies with regards to
  • economic issues
  • legal issues
  • organizational issues
  • pedagogical issues
  • policy issues
  • social issues


• Implementation experiences regading
  • collection development
  • international collaboration
  • quality of service
  • system evaluation
  • user communities
  • user studies


• Systems
  • architecture
  • concepts and models
  • integration
  • interoperability


• Techniques
  • Asian information processing
  • cross-language information access
  • human-computer interaction
  • information integration
  • information mining
  • information retrieval
  • localization
  • metadata
  • multimedia
  • ontologies
  • personalization
  • semantic web
  • semi-structured data management
  • Web cataloging
  • Web-page analysis


• Management
  • access control
  • content management
  • intellectual property
  • security and privacy
  • service models


• Application areas and concerns
  • digital archives and museums
  • digital preservation
  • knowledge management
  • education
  • e-science
  • Grid
  • scholarly publishing

Paper Submission

Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer. Each paper must not exceed 10 pages. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the Web site, , for papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages).

Conference Proceedings

The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer as well as the previous ICADL's. Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference.