Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Digital Libraries and Mobility


• Digital Library Architectures


• Digital Library Infrastructure


• Digital Preservation and Curation


• Information Mining in Digital Libraries


• Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries


• Interoperability of Digitial Library Systems and Services


• Knowledge Organisation Systems


• Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems


• Multilinguality in Digital Libraries


• Multimedia Digital Libraries


• Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries


• Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings


• Policies for Digital Library systems


• Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital Libraries


• User Interfaces for Digital Libraries


• User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications


• Visualisation in Digital Libraries

All papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Research papers must be up to 12 pages of length, and must be submitted via the conference submission system. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance can be as long paper, short paper or poster.

The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The authors of the best research papers will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for publication in a Special Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer).

Here are the important dates:

Abstract submission: February 26, 2010
Full paper submission: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2010
Submission of final version: May 24, 2010