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The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries&#160;constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that&#160;brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in&#160;the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on&#160;Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the&#160;University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September&#160;22-26, 2013.ArgumentValuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or&#160;transformed into digital form by all fields of science, education,&#160;culture, business and government. For this purpose the digital libraries&#160;community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas,&#160;providing significant results such as conceptual models, added value&#160;infrastructures, software tools, standards and services.The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information&#160;with rich semantics is on the centre of the discussions of the community.&#160;Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data&#160;and offer new services outlooking to the &#160;development of a web of data and&#160;addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.TopicsGeneral areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following&#160;topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization&#160;that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross:&#160;FoundationsInformation modelsDigital Library conceptual models and formal issuesDigital Library 2.0Digital library education curriculaEconomic and legal (e.g. rights management), landscape for digital librariesTheoretical models of information interaction and organizationInformation policiesStudies of human factors in networked informationScholarly primitivesNovel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanitiesUser behavior analysis and modelingSocial-technical perspectives of digital informationInfrastructuresDigital Library architecturesCloud and grid deploymentsFederation of repositoriesCollaborative and participatory information environmentsData storage and indexingBig data managemente-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructuresSemi Structured dataSemantic web issues in digital librariesOntologies and knowledge organization systemsLinked data and their applicationsContentMetadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats)Interoperability and Information integrationDigital Curation and related workflowsPreservation, authenticity and provenanceWeb archivingSocial media, and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.)Crowdsourcing3D models indexing and retrievalAuthority management issuesServicesInformation Retrieval and browsingMultilingual and Multimedia Information RetrievalPersonalization in digital librariesContext awareness in information accessSemantic aware servicesTechnologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g., mobile devicesVisualization of large-scale information environmentsEvaluation of online information environmentsQuality metricsInterfaces to digital librariesData mining/extraction of structure from networked informationSocial networks analysis and virtual organizationsTraditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communicationMashups of resourcesSubmission guidelinesTPDL 2013 under the general theme "sharing meaningful information",&#160;invites submissions describing original, unpublished research and not (and&#160;will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere,&#160;for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following&#160;categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations,&#160;Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions&#160;will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and&#160;clarity in a triple peer review process.The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the&#160;Lecture Notes in Computer Science series&#160;(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs).&#160;Therefore all submissions&#160;should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For&#160;Authors" webpage&#160;(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).According to the Registration&#160;Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is&#160;conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper.The authors of the best research papers presented to TPDL2013 will be&#160;invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for&#160;publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital&#160;Libraries&#160;(http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799).Doctoral Consortium papers will be published by the Bulletin of the IEEE&#160;Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL Bulletin,&#160;http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/index.html).&#160;For&#160;Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10&#160;pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted&#160;according to Springer LNCS guidelines.Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and&#160;demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in&#160;PDF format.In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you&#160;set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file.All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted&#160;in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission&#160;page (TBA).ScheduleFull and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: March 4, 2013Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 22, 2013Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013OrganizationGeneral ChairsMilena Dobreva, University of Malta, MaltaGiannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, GreeceProgram ChairsTrond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayChristos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, GreeceOrganizing ChairCharles J. Farrugia, National Archives, MaltaWorkshop ChairsMounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, SpainLaszlo Kovacs, MTA Sztaki, HungaryPoster &#38; Demo ChairsJose Borbinha, Instituto Superior T&#233;cnico, PortugalClaus-Peter Klas, FernUniversit&#228;t in Hagen, GermanyTutorial ChairsJaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsHussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South AfricaPublicity ChairWilliam Zammit, University of Malta, MaltaPanel ChairIngo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UKDoctoral Consortium ChairsMarcos Andre Goncalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BrazilStefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universit&#228;t zu Berlin, GermanySenior Program CommitteeSenior Program CommitteeMaristella Agosti, University of Padua, ItalyJose Borbinha, IST - INESC-ID, PortugalGeorge Buchanan, City University London, UKDonatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, ItalyPanos Constantopoulos, Athens University of Economics &#38; Business, GreeceSchubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeEdward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &#38; State University, USARichard Furuta, Texas A&#38;M University, USAMarcos Andre Goncalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BrazilStefan Gradman, Humboldt University, GermanyYannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, GreeceSarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, GreeceLaszlo Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, HungaryGary Marchionini, UNC-Chapel Hill, USACarlo Meghini, CNR ISTI, ItalyMichael Nelson, Old Dominion University, USAErich Neuhold, University of Vienna, AustriaAndreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, AustriaHeiko Schuldt, University of Basel, SwizerlandTimos Sellis, RMIT University (Australia) / NTUA (Greece)Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science &#38; Technology, NorwayNicolas Spyratos, University of Paris South, FranceCostantino Thanos, Italian National Research Council, ItalyElaine Toms, University of Sheffield, UKPertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, FinlandHerbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USAProgram CommitteeEneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, SpainThomas Baker, DCMI Ltd., USAChristoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, AustriaMaria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, SlovakiaP&#225;vel Calado, IST - INESC-ID, PortugalJos&#233; H. Can&#243;s, Universitat Polit&#232;cnica de Val&#232;ncia, SpainVittore Casarosa, ISTI-CNR, ItalyLillian Cassel, Villanova University, USAKey-Sun Choi, KAIST, Republic of KoreaTimothy Cole, University of Illinois, USAGregory Crane, Tufts University, USAFabio Crestani, University of Lugano, SwizerlandM&#225;rio J. Gaspar Da Silva, IST - INESC-ID, PortugalS&#225;ndor Dar&#225;nyi, G&#246;teborg University, SwedenTheodore Dalamagas, IMIS - "Athena" Research Center, GreeceMakx Dekkers, IndependentGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, ItalyBoris Dobrov M.V., Lomonosov Moscow State University, RussiaMartin Doerr, ICS-FORTH, GreeceErik Duval, K.U.Leuven, BelgiumFloriana Esposito, Universit&#224; di Bari, ItalyNicola Ferro, University of Padua, ItalyPierluigi Feliciati, Universit&#224; degli Studi di Macerata, ItalyIngo Frommholz University of Bedfordshire, UKManolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, GreeceDavid Giaretta, STFC, UKC. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USAJane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USAAnnika Hinze, University of Waikato, New ZealandJen Shin Hong, National ChiNan University, TaiwanJane Hunter, University of Queensland, AustraliaAntoine Isaac, Europeana / VU UNiversity Amsterdam, NetherlandsJaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsMichael Khoo, Drexel University, USARoss King, Austrian Institute of Technology, AustriaClaus-Peter Klas, FernUniversit&#228;t in Hagen, GermanyAlberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BrazilCarl Lagoze, University of Michigan, USAMounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona, SpainBirger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, DenmarkRonald Larsen, University of Pittsburgh, USARay Larson, University of California, Berkeley, USAPatrick Leboeuf, Biblioth&#232;que Nationale de France, FranceEe-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, SingaporeMaria Teresa Linaza, Visual Communication Technologies VICOMTech, SpainClifford Lynch, CNI, USAZinaida Manžuch, Vilnius University, LithuaniaBruno Martins, Instituto Superior Tecnico, PortugalAndras Micsik, MTA SZTAKI, HungaryNatasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Ltd, UKReagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USAWolfgang Nejdl, L3S / University of Hannover, GermanyKjetil N&#248;rv&#229;g, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayMaggy Pezeril, University of Montpellier, FranceNils Pharo, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, NorwayDimitris Plexousakis, FORTH-ICS, GreeceEdie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, CanadaCristina Ribeiro, FEUP / INESC Porto, PortugalThomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GermanyLaurent Romary, INRIA / HUB-ISDL, FranceSeamus Ross, University of Toronto, CanadaIan Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, ScotlandRaivo Ruusalepp, Tallinn University, EstoniaJ. Alfredo S&#225;nchez, UDLAP, MexicoRobert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USAMichalis Sfakakis, Ionian University, GreeceMaria Śliwińska, Nicholas Copernicus University, PolandFrank Shipman, Texas A&#38;M University, USAUlrike Steffens, OFFIS, GermanyCassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University Bloomington, USAShigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, JapanHussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South AfricaAtsuhiro Takasu, National Institute of Informatics, JapanManfred Thaller, Universit&#228;t zu K&#246;ln, GermanyYin Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeAnastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University of London, UKSascha Tonnies, Technische Universit&#228;t Braunschweig, GermanyChrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, GreeceDouglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, IrelandYannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete / FORTH-ICS, GreeceTom D. Wilson, University of Bor&#229;s, SwedenIris Xie, Universty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USATitia van der Werf, OCLC Research, USAMaja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia