Workshops at ECDL2008
For further info on workshops and their individual deadlines, please follow the links in the text below to each workshop's website
Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
17-19 September 2008
The workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is an annual event in which the participants in the CLEF evaluation campaigns discuss their research in the field of multilingual information access and present their experiments aimed at testing various aspects of multilingual and multimedia system performance. The work of the groups participating in the CLEF 2008 campaign will be presented in plenary and parallel paper and poster sessions. There will also be break-out sessions for more in-depth discussion of the results of individual tracks and intentions for the future. The final sessions will include discussions on ideas for new tracks in future campaigns. Overall, the workshop will provide an ample panorama of the current state-of-the-art and the latest research directions in the multilingual information retrieval area with particular focus on the needs of digital library systems. For more information on the CLEF activities, see www.clef-campaign.org. The workshop is on invitation only. If you are interested in participating, please contact Carol Peters ().
International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW)
18-19 September 2008
The 8th International Web Archiving Workshop will provide a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, with a particular focus on web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives. For more information on IWAW, see http://iwaw.net/08/index.html
Foundations of Digital Libraries (DLFoundations 2008)
18 September 2008
The third edition of the Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries will continue its outstanding activity in serving as a vehicle for consolidating and expanding the DELOS Reference Model as well for exploring other fundamental aspects of Digital Libraries. Its ultimate goal is to stimulate a process that can lead to a comprehensive and universally accepted model influencing future activities and development of Digital Library systems. To achieve its goals, the workshop will focus on modeling the main concepts characterizing the Digital Library universe: Content, User, Functionality, Policy, Quality and Architecture. For more information see www.delos.info/DLFoundations2008
Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL2)
18 September 2008
Digital libraries and digital repositories are - in many ways - two sides of the same coin. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from both fields, and aims to transfer knowledge and connect. The target groups are primarily repository researchers, developers, and managers. The workshop addresses both experiences and novel concepts with a technological and/or organisational stance. The workshop aims to cover a variety of practical digital library development issues and how their resolution can (or cannot) be carried out in the context of the digital object repository at hand. For more information see
Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH 2008)
18 September 2008
This workshop will bring together academics carrying out research in the area of information access and practitioners working in the cultural heritage field. The goal of the workshop is promoting exchange of ideas concerning creation, curation, storage, retrieval and use of cultural heritage information. In particular, the workshop will focus on the question of how the keepers of cultural heritage resources can improve information access by applying information technology and principles currently being developed in the area of information access. Following current trends, users are actively engaging with cultural heritage on the web, prompting heritage institutions to stimulate communities to grow around them. The workshop places an additional emphasis on active user participation in cultural heritage, which creates new modes of access and contextualisation. For more information, please see:
Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services (NKOS)
19 September 2008
The 7th NKOS workshop at ECDL explores the potential of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS), such as classification systems, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and lexical databases. These tools attempt to model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for purposes of information retrieval, knowledge discovery, language engineering, and the semantic web. The workshop provides an opportunity to report and discuss projects, research, and development related to Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services in next-generation digital libraries.
The workshop is planned to consist of an introduction, technical presentations, a poster session, and a concluding directed discussion. We welcome submissions of extended abstracts, for details see cfp at the workshop website:
Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL 2008)
19 September 2008
The first edition of the Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries embraces the enthusiasms of recent advances in the realization of Digital Library systems capable of integrating arbitrarily large quantities of potentially heterogeneous and distributed content resources and service resources. New approaches and technologies have been devised to appropriately tackle the various matters arising in designing, developing and maintaining large-scale Digital Library systems. The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers, practitioners and application developers with a forum fostering a constructive exchange among all of such key actors. For more information visit www.delos.info/vldl2008 or contact .
Important Dates
- ECDL2008: 14-19 September 2008
- Workshops: 17-19 September 2008
Contact address: requests for information should be sent to .