Full Papers

A detailed programme and time schedule for all papers is shown in the .

Review complete

The review of papers for ECDL2008 is now complete and accepted papers and short papers respectively are listed below.

Accepted full papers
Accepted short papers

Accepted full papers for ECDL2008

Authors Title
David Archer, Lois Delcambre, Susan Price, David Maier, Sudarshan Murthy, Portland State University; Fabio Corubolo, University of Liverpool; Lillian Cassel, Villanova University; Uma Murthy and Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA; Superimposed Information Architecture for Digital Libraries
Massimiliano Assante, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Luca Frosini, Lucio Lelii, Paolo Manghi, Andrea Manzi, Pasquale Pagano, and Manuele Simi, ISTI-CNR An Extensible Virtual Digital Libraries Generator
Simon Attfield, Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford, and Stephen De Gabrielle, UCL; James Kalbach and Mark Edwards, LexisNexis Prioritisation, resources and search terms: A study of decision-making at the virtual reference desk
Christoph Becker, Michael Kraxner, and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology; Miguel Ferreira, Ana Baptista, and Jose Ramalho, University of Minho Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions
Ceri Binding and Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan; Keith May, English Heritage; Semantic Interoperability in Archaeological Datasets: Data Mapping and Extraction via the CIDOC CRM
George Buchanan and Jennifer Pearson, Swansea University Improving Placeholders in Digital Documents
Marcos R. S. Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jose Canós and Manuel Llavador, Technical University Valencia; Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragoza A Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Early Citation Management
Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Andrea Ernst-Gerlach, University Duisberg-Essen Identifying quotations in reference works and primary materialsIdentifying quotations from reference works in primary materials
Zeki Mustafa Dogan and Alfred Scharsky, Leipzig University Library Virtual unification of the earliest Christian Bible: Digitizing, transcription, translation and physical description of the Codex Sinaiticus
Nicola Ferro and Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua A Methodology for Sharing Archival Descriptive Metadata in a Distributed Environment
Dimitris Gavrilis, Athena Research Centre; Constantia Kakali, Panteion University; Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University Enhancing Library Services with Web 2.0 functionalities
Qianyi Gu, University of Colorado Personalizing the Selection of Digital Library Resources to Support Intentional Learning
Robert Ikeda and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University; Kai Zhao, NEC Labs China; Matching Hierarchies Using Shared Objects
Ying Jiang, Wuhan University of China Towards Ontology-based Chinese E-Government Digital Archives Knowledge Management
Arash Joorabchi and Abdulhussain Mahdi , University of Limerick Development of a National Syllabus Repository for Higher Education in Ireland
Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Norvag, NTNU Improving Temporal Language Models For Determining Time of Non-Timestamped Documents
Martin Klein and Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University Revisiting Lexical Signatures to (Re-)Discover Web Pages
Frank Kurth, FGAN-FKIE; David Damm, Christian Fremerey, and Michael Clausen, University of Bonn; Meinard Mueller, Max-Planck-Institut Saarbruecken A Framework for Managing Multimodal Digitized Music Collections
Jyishane Liu, National Chengchi University A Participative Digital Archiving Approach to University History and Memory
Quang Minh Nguyen, Thi Nhu Quynh Kim, Dion Goh, Yin-Leng Theng, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Chew Hung Chang, and Kalyani Chatterjea, Nanyang Technological University TagNSearch: Searching and Navigating Geo-referenced Collections of Photographs
Moira Norrie, Beat Signer, and Nadir Weibel, ETH Zurich Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries
Paraskevi Raftopoulou and Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete; Christos Tryfonopoulos and Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics Information Retrieval and Filtering over Self-Organising Digital Libraries
Khasfariyati Razikin, Alton Chua, Chei Sian Lee, and Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University Can Social Tags Help You Find What You Want?
Michalis Sfakakis and Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University Semantic Based Substitution of Unsupported Access Points in the Library Meta-Search Environments
Joan Smith and Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University A Quantitative Evaluation of Dissemination-Time Preservation Metadata
David Tarrant, Les Carr, and Terry Payne, University of Southampton Releasing the Power of Digital Metadata: Examining Large Networks of Co-Related Publications
Manfred Thaller, Volker Heydegger, Jan Schnasse, Sebastian Beyl, and Elona Chudobkaite, University at Cologne Significant Characteristics to Abstract Content: Long Term Preservation of Content
Yukio Uematsu, Takafumi Inoue, Kengo Fujioka, and Ryoji Kataoka, NTT Corporation; Hayato Ohwada, Tokyo University of Science Proximity Scoring using Sentence-based Inverted Index for Practical Full-text Search
Marcin Werla, Cezary Mazurek, and Agnieszka Lewandowska, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center Enrichment of European Digital Resources by Federating Regional Digital Libraries in Poland
Kai-Hsiang Yang, Academia Sinica Author Name Disambiguation for Citations Using Topic and Web Correlation

Accepted short papers for ECDL2008

Authors Title
Maristella Agosti and Nicola Ferro, University of Padua Annotations: a Way to Interoperability in DL
Te Taka Keegan and Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato What a Difference a Default Setting Makes
Sebastian Kruk and Ewelina Kruk, DERI NUI Galway; Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Gdansk University of Technology Evaluation of Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries
Gemma Madle, Patty Kostkova, and Abdul Roudsari, City University Impact-ED - A New Model of Digital Library Impact Evaluation
Paolo Manghi, Marko Mikulicic, Michele Artini, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano, and Leonardo Candela, ISTI-CNR Sustainable Digital Library Systems over the DRIVER Repository Infrastructure
Amy Stafford, Ali Shiri, Stan Ruecker, Matt Bouchard, Paras Mehta, Karl Anvik, and Ximena Rossello, University of Alberta Searchling: User-Centred Evaluation of a Visual Thesaurus-Enhanced Interface for Bilingual Digital Libraries
Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova Access modalities to an imagistic library for medical e-learning
Eld Zierau and Anders Johansen, Royal Library Denmark Archive Design based on Planets inspired Logical Object Model

The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), in hard copy and electronic form.

Important Dates

  • ECDL2008: 14-19 September 2008
  • ECDL conference: 15-17 September 2008

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