9th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2013)
Rome, January 31 - February 1
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~ircdl13

IRCDL is a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. This year the focus of IRCDL 2013 is on emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of the research on digital libraries which not only goes from humanities to computer science but also crosses among areas in the same field ranging, for example, from archival to librarian sciences or from information systems to human-computer interaction. This is a continued challenge for the DL field and there is the need to effectively bridge the gap existing between communities that share common objectives. The aim is therefore to provide the opportunity to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, developed both in the humanities and computer science fields, and to exchange experiences from on-going projects.

Topics

Relevant topics for IRCDL 2013 are related to the different aspects needed to support information access and interoperability. Topics include but are not limited to:
* Formal and methodological foundations of digital libraries
* DL Architectures and infrastructures
* System interoperability and data integration
* Ontologies and linked data for digital libraries
* Metadata creation, management, and curation
* User interfaces and visualization
* Information Access, Usability, and Personalization
* Long-term preservation
* Collaborative environments
* Social networking and networked information
* Quality and evaluation of digital libraries
* Digital libraries for education and learning
* Digital libraries for the evaluation of research quality and scholarly impact (bibliometric indicators, citation analysis, ...)
* Exploitation of cultural heritage material

Submissions

Research papers, describing original ideas on the fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, demos, and projects are also welcome. Research papers presenting original works should not exceed 12 pages whereas short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ircdl2013

Submissions must be formatted according to Authors Instructions (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings. Accepted papers in PDF will be published in on-line proceedings (max 12 pages) at the time of the conference and presented at the conference. After the conference some selected authors will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper for a possible inclusion in the post-proceedings volume. The revised version of each paper must take into account the suggestions and the comments received during the discussion at the conference; the revised versions are going to be reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Important dates:

* Submission Deadline: December 7, 2012
* Acceptance Notification: January 11, 2013
* Final version submission: January 18, 2013
* Conference: January 31- February 1, 2013
* Revised Version Submission: March 15, 2013
* Post-proceedings Publication: by July, 2013

Organization

General chair: Tiziana Catarci (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale "Antonio Ruberti" - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)

Program chairs:
* Nicola Ferro (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Universit? degli Studi di Padova)
* Antonella Poggi (Dipartimento di Scienze Documentarie, Linguistico-filologiche e Geografiche - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)

Program committee:
* Michelangelo Ceci (Dipartimento di Informatica - Universit? degli Studi di Bari)
* Gianfranco Crupi (Dipartimento di Studi Greco-latini, Italiani, Scenico Musicali - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)
* Stefano Ferilli (Dipartimento di Informatica - Universit? degli Studi di Bari)
* Costantino Grana (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universit? degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
* Maria Guercio (Dipartimento di Storia dell'Arte e dello Spettacolo - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)
* Simone Marinai (Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze)
* Carlo Meghini (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
* Fausto Rabitti (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
* Marco Shaerf (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale "Antonio Ruberti" - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)
* Gianmaria Silvello (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Universit? degli Studi di Padova)
* Giovanni Solimine (Dipartimento di Scienze Documentarie, Linguistico-filologiche e Geografiche - Sapienza Universit? di Roma)
* Carlo Tasso (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universit? degli Studi di Udine)
* Erilde Terenzoni (Soprintendenza Archivistica per il Veneto)
* Francesca Tomasi (Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica - Universit? di Bologna)
* Paul G. Weston (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Geografiche "Carlo M. Cipolla" - Universit? degli Studi di Pavia)

Local chair:
* Carola Aiello (Sapienza Universit? di Roma)

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Antonella Poggi, Assistant professor
Sapienza Universita' di Roma
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti"
Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 - 06 - 77274067
Fax: +39 - 06 - 77274033
E-mail: poggi@dis.uniroma1.it
Home page: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~poggi