Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers & registration of the
forthcoming International Conference on Digital Libraries and
Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011) to be jointly organized by
Management Development Institute (MDI) and Indian Association for
Special Libraries & Information Centres (IASLIC) during 14-16 February
2011.

Background & Objectives
The advancement of Digital Library technologies provide an effective
medium for Library & Information professionals to reach out to the
users as never before. Same time, the rapid proliferation of the
digital resources poses an unprecedented challenge to information
professionals in generating efficient information services.

Libraries and information centres have long been involved in
systematically organizing knowledge using techniques such as indexing
and classification. These traditional knowledge organization tools
lay the foundation for modern knowledge organization languages in the
digital era. Knowledge organization systems can improve the
organization of digital libraries and facilitate better access to
their content. In a technology driven world, libraries play a crucial
role in the fostering of knowledge for development.

The goal of the conference is to bring together librarians,
information engineers, educators as well as experts and professionals
in other related fields, from both India and aboard, to exchange ideas
and share research findings about digital libraries and knowledge
organization. The conference will generate valuable ideas for
advancing services for knowledge creation through research.

The conference will focus on the theoretical and methodological issues
involved in the qualitative, longitudinal study of the developers,
users, policy makers, etc., involved in the development of digital
libraries. It will provide a forum where these theoretical and
methodological interests and insights may be advanced, exchanged, and
debated, and where experiences with differing technologies, contexts,
and methodologies may be compared and contrasted.

The specific objectives of the conference are:
• To provide a forum for scholars from different fields and
backgrounds to share their views and perspectives on how to advance
research in the area of digital libraries and knowledge organization
tools and techniques.
• Identifying best practices in all the spheres of digital
library development and knowledge organization.
• To provide strategic directions for the development of
digital libraries
• To prepare a sustainable knowledge organization framework
for digital library development

Themes (but not limited to)
• Digital Libraries Development
• Tools and Techniques for Managing Digital Repositories
• Digital Resource Management Strategies
• Evaluation of Digital Libraries
• Content Development: Tools and Techniques
• Cultural Issues of Online Services
• Technology Issues in Online Services
• Standards and Specifications for Digital Objects
• Metadata Standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks
• Case Studies of Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories
• Multilingual Digital Libraries
• Digital Preservation Strategies
• Web Retrieval Tools and Strategies
• Information Retrieval in Indian Languages
• User Interface and Patron Interactions Tools
• Open Source Software Tools for Digital Library Development
• Open Access Initiatives, Open Access Repositories
• Open Access for Scholarly Contents
• Information Management Using Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies
• Social Networking Tools for Information Services
• Knowledge Organization Techniques
• Knowledge Representation Models
• Emergent Techniques for Search Algorithms and Context Sensitive
Indexing
• Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Representation and
Management
• Ontologies and Approaches to Building Ontologies

Important Dates:
Submission of full paper : September 30, 2010
Workshop/tutorial proposal : August 10, 2010
Notification of acceptance with reviewers’ comments : October 30,
2010
Submission of the final paper : November 30, 2010

For further information about the conference, please visit the
conference site at http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html

Regards!

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Dr Antony Jose
Convener ICDK-2011
Management Development Institute (MDI)
Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali
Gurgaon - 122 007-2 INDIA
Phone : +91-124-4560324
Email : icdk@mdi.ac.in

Bharat Kumar
Assistant Librarian
Management Development Institute
Gurgaon – 122007, Haryana, India
Phone No: +91 - 124 – 4560390
+91 – 99684 56404
E-mail - bharatkumar@mdi.ac.in
Bharat.Kumar@hotmail.com
Web - http://www.mdi.ac.in