DELOS is an EU FP6 Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries ( DELOS Web site ) which is coordinating a joint program of activities of the major European teams working in digital library related areas. DELOS envisions a Digital Library (DL) at the centre of intellectual activity having no logical, conceptual, physical, temporal, or personal borders or barriers on information. In recent years, the concept of a DL has moved from a content-centric system that simply organizes and provides access to particular collections of data and information, to a person-centric system that aims to provide interesting, novel, personalized services to users.

IRCDL is becoming a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on DL related topics. The aim of this 3rd Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems is to bring together researchers interested in the different methods and techniques that allow to design and build digital library systems, with a particular focus on service oriented Digital Libraries. Main and relevant research directions need to be identified and pointed out.

Abstract Submission
Submissions in form of extended abstracts, not exceeding 4 pages, should be sent electronically in PDF before November 20, 2006 to the email address: ircdl at dei dot unipd dot it. Accepted extended abstracts in PDF will be published as DELOS on-line proceedings (max 12 pages) at the time of the conference. Full versions of accepted papers (max 12 pages) will be published as DELOS proceedings after the conference. For the submissions the authors have to refer to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Guidelines.

Topics include (but not limited to)
Architectures of Digital Library Management Systems
Information Access and Personalization
Handling of Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Objects
User Interfaces and Visualization
Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Interoperability
Preservation
Evaluation of Digital Libraries
Metadata Creation and Management
Multilinguality
Digital Repositories

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 20, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: December 18, 2006
Submission of Accepted Abstracts: January 18, 2007
Conference: January 29-30, 2007

Venue: Aula Magna,University of Padova, Department of Information Engineering, Via Gradenigo 6/a, I-35131 Padova, Italy