First Announcement and Call for Papers:

               The 1st International Workshop on New
               Developments in Digital Libraries
               (NDDL-2001)



July 6-7, 2001 -- Setúbal, Portugal

Attached to the Third International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems (ICEIS2001) 7-10 July 2001 (http://www.iceis.org/)

Chair:

Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal (pisaias@univ-ab.pt)

Workshop Background and Goals

The Digital Library field is an evolving one. New developments appear
every day in the area and within related areas. This workshop intends
to focus in application areas following the ICEIS interest to join
university level research to company implementations.

This workshop will serve as a forum to gather researchers,
practitioners, students and anyone that works or studies the
field. The workshop will expose new developments, and hopefully
provide exchange of ideas and discussion on specific areas.

The workshop won?t be finished when it ends - a web site will be
created to continue gathering people, conveying information and
discussing ideas on Digital Libraries topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to


     Software Agents 

     Metadata Issues 

     Digital Library Prototypes 

     Systems Interoperability 

     Evaluation Issues

     Searching and Browsing 

     Multimedia Libraries 

     Digital Library Development Frameworks 

     Studies of Digital Library Usage 

     Practical Results from R&D Projects



Format of the Workshop

The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in
the form of a book.

Submission of Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation
in any of the areas listed above.  Only full papers in English will be
accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000
words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex
format) are available at the ICEIS web site (see
below). Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be sent
electronically to the workshop secretariat (see e-mail below).

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission: 10th January 2001 Author Notification: 15th
March 2001 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 5th April
2001

Workshop Programme Committee

Steve Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
António de Sousa da Câmara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California San Diego, USA
Joaquim Filipe, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
Hanne Albrechtsen, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
Jens-Erik Mai, University of Washington, USA
Nuno Guimarães, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Gert Fieguth, Fachhochschule Kehl, Germany
Wendy P. Lougee, University of Michigan, USA

Conference Location

The workshop will be held at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the
Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal.  Setúbal is located at the south
bank of Tagus river, about 50 km from Lisbon.

Secretariat

ICEIS Secretariat - The First International Workshop on New
Developments in Digital Libraries

Rua Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha,
2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal
Fax: +351 265 721 869
Tel: +351 265 790 000

E-mail: w2-secretariat@iceis.org
Web site: www.iceis.org