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INDEX

CALL FOR PAPERS

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council

"Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society"

20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea

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Call for Papers

Audio-Visual and Multimedia Section, with Information Technology Section, in association with National Libraries Section

Theme:

New Access Technologies:
Part 1 - Exploring the Heritage
Part 2 - Tomorrow's Retrieval

The overall theme of the 2006 World Library and Information Congress is "Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society" and our programme is focused on a range of new and exciting technical developments that Libraries can exploit to improve access to audiovisual and multimedia resources, which increasingly constitute the Knowledge and Memory of modern nations, and yet are currently little recognized and greatly under-used.

The high state of technological awareness in Korea coupled with its rich and distinctive heritage would make Seoul the ideal location for a session of this kind.

Exploring the Heritage (Part 1)

Proposals are invited for papers describing emerging technologies in this field that deserve wider exposure and discussion by librarians, including:

• Content-based image searching on non-linguistic criteria
• Automatic indexing of time-based media through voice recognition
• Open captioning of film for the visually impaired
• Retrieval of 3D objects

Please send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s), by 15 December 2005, via email to:

Gregory Miura
E-mail: gregory.miura@bnf.fr

The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Standing Committees of the two Sections. Successful proposals will be identified by 31 January 2006.

Full papers will be due by 15 April 2006 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations; each full paper must be an original submission not published elsewhere, and no more than 20 double spaced A4 pages in length. The paper should be in one of the IFLA languages (English, French, German, Spanish or Russian).

At least one of the paper's Authors must undertake to be present to present a summary of the paper (some 20 minutes) during the Section's programme in Seoul. PLEASE NOTE that the expenses of attending the Seoul conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.

Tomorrow's Retrieval (Part 2)

Proposals are invited for papers describing emerging technologies in this field that deserve wider exposure and discussion by librarians, including:

• XML search engines
• natural language processing
• faceted searching

Please send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s), by 1st March 2006 to:
Hanna de Vries
deVries@ubib.eur.nl

The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Standing Committees of the two Sections. Successful proposals will be identified by 15th March 2006.

Full papers will be due by 15 April 2006 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations; each full paper must be an original submission not published elsewhere, and no more than 20 double spaced A4 pages in length. The paper should be in one of the IFLA languages (English, French, German, Spanish or Russian).

At least one of the paper's Authors must undertake to be present to present a summary of the paper (some 20 minutes) during the Section's programme in Seoul. PLEASE NOTE that the expenses of attending the Seoul conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.

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