Relevant topics

• Models and standards for information and metainformation representation (including thesauri and ontologies) in DL.
• Methods and tools for data discovery, extraction analysis and retrieval in DL (including audio-visual and mixed data).
• Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, and metainformation integration.
• DL architectures. Mobile computing and agents related to digital libraries.
• Human aspects of DL (interaction with and collaboration in DL, personalization, data visualization (rendering) and analysis of data, intellectual property, user communities).
• DL and changes in the information consumption processes.
• Multilingual data access and multilingual data service.
• DL, DL prototypes and digital collections for science, education, culture, health care and management. Deployment and promotion of digital libraries.
• Digital collections in traditional libraries, museums, archives, information centers.
• Advanced technologies of digital collection building, storage and system maintenance.
• Evaluation: metrics, testbeds, results.
• Digital collection cataloging, indexing, annotating, recommendation, maintenance of integrity and consistency.
• DL security and information protection.
• Grid technologies and digital libraries, data grid.