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Call for Papers =96 ELPUB 2003

ICCC/IFIP 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, to be held=
 in Guimar=E3es,
Portugal, 25 =96 28 June 2003

ELPUB 2003 =96 From Information to Knowledge

http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003

This 7th conference will be hosted by the Department of Information Systems=
 at the University of
Minho, in Guimar=E3es, (Northern Portugal), a beautiful XII century city th=
at recently became part
of world=92s cultural heritage.

The 7th ELPUB attempts to keep the tradition of the six previous internatio=
nal (annual)
conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (1997 and =
2001), Hungary (1998),
Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), and the Czech Republic (2002) which is to bri=
ng together
researchers, lecturers, developers, industrials, businessmen, entrepreneurs=
, managers, users and
all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in the most =
different contexts.
These include human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, comm=
ercial and any other
relevant aspect that such an exciting theme encompasses.

Elpub 2003 offers a variety of new activities, such as workshops, tutorials=
, panel debates etc.
So, the conference will bring about opportunities for attendants to partici=
pate in a number of
activities, including:

- The communication of papers specially prepared and selected (peer reviewe=
d) for the conference;

- Three prominent invited speakers who will be presenting their keynotes on=
 the three first days
of the conference programme;

- Several workshops and tutorials that aim to provide opportunity for atten=
dants to update
themselves in topics of high interest within this community of experts;

- Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas presented and discu=
ssed during the
presentation of the conference papers;

- Panel debates on selected topics

- And at last but not least, the presentation of posters. The conference we=
lcomes authors on the
following topics:

GENERAL TRACK:

New publishing models

New services for the Web

Services and products for academics, executives, governors, media communica=
tors, etc.

The Semantic Web

Multimedia and multimodal Web

Web for the TV

New services for disabled people

Metadata use and interoperability

The communication cycle of electronic scholarly publications: production, d=
istribution,
acquisition and use

Infocracy / infoexclusion

Copyright on the web

Security, privacy and other issues regarding information availability on th=
e web

Digital preservation, reliability, quality, etc.

Digital libraries for different communities of users

Distance learning; Education and training

Global collaboration through the information infrastructure internationally=
 available

TECHNICAL TRACK

The use of XML and its related technologies

Development and use of XML applications

Development and use of codification mechanisms, technologies and tools for =
the metadata encoding
process :MHP, RDF, etc.

Content search, analysis and retrieval on the Web;

Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications

Electronic publishing for mobile devices

Development and use of technologies for security, preservation and quality =
assurance of
information sources and information access channels

Technologies for the global information infrastructure

Technologies for the integration of recommendations, standards, and standar=
ds proposals.

Technologies for the publication process in different contexts

PLEASE, NOTE THAT THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE. THEREFO=
RE, SUBMISSIONS ON ANY
TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED.

***AUTHOR GUIDELINES:

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15thth, 2003

Abstracts submission include:

Title of the paper;

Authors=92 names;

Authors=92 affiliation;

Authors=92 full address (including phones, fax and email);

Extended abstract in English - sent by email, using: text only format; no f=
ormatting; double space
between paragraphs; Font type/size Arial 12 or similar; 1.200-1.500 words l=
ength.

Keywords in English

Abstracts should be sent to: programmelpub@unb.br

The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted p=
apers by February 28th,
2003.

The deadline for Full Papers will be April, 30th, 2003. Speakers will be gi=
ven 20 minutes for
their presentation, plus 10 minutes at most for discussion. All Full Papers=
 will be published in
the conference proceedings.

Posters are due to be brought by their authors at the conference time and o=
nly their abstracts
will be published in the conference proceedings.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Host: University of Minho, Guimar=E3es, Portugal.

General Chair: Jo=E3o =C1lvaro de Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal j=
ac@dsi.uminho.pt

Programme Chair: Sely M. S. Costa, University of Brasilia, Brazil selmar@un=
b.br

Programme Committee:

Amaral, Lu=EDs, University of Minho, Portugal

Berto, Rosa M. V. S. =96 Technology Research Institute, Brazil

Bonn, Maria =96 University of Michigan, USA

Br=E4scher, Marisa =96 Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology Inform=
ation, Brazil

Carvalho, Ana Am=E9lia A. =96 University of Minho, Portugal

Cetto, Ana Maria =96 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Chan, Leslie =96 University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada

Costa, Sely M. S. =96 University of Brasilia, Brazil

Delgado, Jaime =96 University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Diocaretz, Myriam =96 International Institute of Infonomics, Netherlands

Engelen, Jan =96 Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Fox, Edward =96 Virginia Tech, USA

Guimar=E3es, Nuno M. =96 University of Lisbon, Portugal

Henriques, Pedro Rangel =96 University of Minho, Portugal

Iyengar, Arun =96 IBM Research, USA

Jezek, Karel =96 University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

Juhola, Helene =96 VTT Information Technology, Finland

Linde, Peter =96 Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Moreira, Ana Cristina =96 University of Brasilia, Brazil

Okerson, Ann =96 Yale University, USA

Russell, Jane =96 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Schw=E4nzel, Roland =96 University of Osnabr=FCck, Germany

Smith, John W. T. =96 University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Targino, Maria das Gra=E7as =96 University of Piau=ED, Brazil

For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: program=
melpub@unb.br

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