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*** THIS MESSAGE IS CROSS POSTED TO SEVERAL LISTS. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY
DUPLICATION ***
Call for Papers – ELPUB 2003
ICCC/IFIP 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, to be held
in Guimarães, Portugal, 25 – 28 June 2003
ELPUB 2003 – From Information to Knowledge
http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003
This 7th conference will be hosted by the Department of Information Systems
at the University of Minho, in Guimarães, (Northern Portugal), a beautiful
XII century city that recently became part of world’s cultural heritage.
The 7th ELPUB attempts to keep the tradition of the six previous
international (annual) conferences on electronic publishing, held in the
United Kingdom (1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia
(2000), and the Czech Republic (2002) which is to bring together
researchers, lecturers, developers, industrials, businessmen,
entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding
electronic publishing in the most different contexts. These include human,
cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and any other
relevant aspect that such an exciting theme encompasses.
Elpub 2003 offers a variety of new activities, such as workshops,
tutorials, panel debates etc. So, the conference will bring about
opportunities for attendants to participate in a number of activities,
including:
- The communication of papers specially prepared and selected (peer
reviewed) for the conference;
- Three prominent invited speakers who will be presenting their keynotes on
the three first days of the conference programme;
- Several workshops and tutorials that aim to provide opportunity for
attendants to update themselves in topics of high interest within this
community of experts;
- Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas presented and
discussed during the presentation of the conference papers;
- Panel debates on selected topics
- And at last but not least, the presentation of posters. The conference
welcomes authors on the following topics:
GENERAL TRACK:
New publishing models
New services for the Web
Services and products for academics, executives, governors, media
communicators, etc.
The Semantic Web
Multimedia and multimodal Web
Web for the TV
New services for disabled people
Metadata use and interoperability
The communication cycle of electronic scholarly publications: production,
distribution, acquisition and use
Infocracy / infoexclusion
Copyright on the web
Security, privacy and other issues regarding information availability on
the web
Digital preservation, reliability, quality, etc.
Digital libraries for different communities of users
Distance learning; Education and training
Global collaboration through the information infrastructure internationally
available
TECHNICAL TRACK
The use of XML and its related technologies
Development and use of XML applications
Development and use of codification mechanisms, technologies and tools for
the metadata encoding process :MHP, RDF, etc.
Content search, analysis and retrieval on the Web;
Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications
Electronic publishing for mobile devices
Development and use of technologies for security, preservation and quality
assurance of information sources and information access channels
Technologies for the global information infrastructure
Technologies for the integration of recommendations, standards, and
standards proposals.
Technologies for the publication process in different contexts
PLEASE, NOTE THAT THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE.
THEREFORE, SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME
WILL BE CONSIDERED.
***AUTHOR GUIDELINES:
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15thth, 2003
Abstracts submission include:
Title of the paper;
Authors’ names;
Authors’ affiliation;
Authors’ full address (including phones, fax and email);
Extended abstract in English - sent by email, using: text only format; no
formatting; double space between paragraphs; Font type/size Arial 12 or
similar; 1.200-1.500 words length.
Keywords in English
Abstracts should be sent to: programmelpub@unb.br
The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted
papers by February 28th, 2003.
The deadline for Full Papers will be April, 30th, 2003. Speakers will be
given 20 minutes for their presentation, plus 10 minutes at most for
discussion. All Full Papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Posters are due to be brought by their authors at the conference time and
only their abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Host: University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
General Chair: João Álvaro de Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
jac@dsi.uminho.pt
Programme Chair: Sely M. S. Costa, University of Brasilia, Brazil
selmar@unb.br
Programme Committee:
Amaral, Luís, University of Minho, Portugal
Berto, Rosa M. V. S. – Technology Research Institute, Brazil
Bonn, Maria – University of Michigan, USA
Bräscher, Marisa – Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology
Information, Brazil
Carvalho, Ana Amélia A. – University of Minho, Portugal
Cetto, Ana Maria – National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Chan, Leslie – University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada
Costa, Sely M. S. – University of Brasilia, Brazil
Delgado, Jaime – University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Diocaretz, Myriam – International Institute of Infonomics, Netherlands
Engelen, Jan – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Fox, Edward – Virginia Tech, USA
Guimarães, Nuno M. – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Henriques, Pedro Rangel – University of Minho, Portugal
Iyengar, Arun – IBM Research, USA
Jezek, Karel – University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic
Juhola, Helene – VTT Information Technology, Finland
Linde, Peter – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Moreira, Ana Cristina – University of Brasilia, Brazil
Okerson, Ann – Yale University, USA
Russell, Jane – National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Schwänzel, Roland – University of Osnabrück, Germany
Smith, John W. T. – University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Targino, Maria das Graças – University of Piauí, Brazil
For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee:
programmelpub@unb.br
