European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Towards the European Digital Library

ECDL2008, the 12th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences, was held in Aarhus (Denmark) from September 14 to September 19, 2008.

ECDL has become the major European conference on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers, and users in the field.

ECDL2008 was jointly organised by the State and University Library and Aarhus University.

Next year's European Conference of Digital Libraries will be held at the Greek island Corfu, please visit the website for further information.

Conference focus

The content of ECDL2008 focused on research and development supporting information access and exploration from a technology perspective as well as in different application domains such as science, e-government, cultural heritage, etc.

Topics of contributions included:

Concepts of Digital Libraries and digital content
Collection building, management and integration
System architectures, integration and interoperability
Information organisation, search and usage
Multilingual information access and multimedia content management
User interfaces for digital libraries
User studies and system evaluation
Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical and legal issues
Digital Library applications in e-science, e-learning, e-government, cultural heritage, etc.
Web 2.0 and associated technologies

Contributions consisted of peer reviewed papers, posters, tutorials, and workshops: