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[Apologies for cross postings. Please, re-distribute]****************************     CALL FOR PAPERS     ****************************ECDL European Conference on Digital Libraries( http://www.ecdl2005.org )September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria*************Introduction:ECDL 2005 is the 9th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences. ECDL has become the major European conference on digital libraries, and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2005 is jointly organized by the Vienna University of Technology (VUT), the Austrian National Library (ÖNB), and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). The conference will take place in the Vienna Technical University.****************Important dates:Workshop Proposal Deadline:               January 28Workshop Acceptance Notification:         February 27Paper/Tutorial/Panel submission Deadline: March 1Acceptance Notifications:                 May 15Final version of Papers:                  June 3Conference:                               September 18-23*******Topics:Topics of contributions include (but are not limited to):- Concepts of Digital Libraries and Digital Documents- System Architectures, Integration and Interoperability- Information Organization, Search and Usage- User Studies and System Evaluation- Digital Preservation- Digital Library Applications************Submissions:Submissions are invited for full or short papers, posters, demonstrations, panels, tutorials and workshops. All contributions will be reviewed by members of the programm comitee. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in hard copy and electronic form.The full text of papers is required at initial submission stage. Papers must be submitted electronically via the submission web page. It is expected that accepted papers are presented by an/the author at the conference. Details of the submission guidelines will be published on the conference website at http://www.ecdl2005.org.*********************Organization Commitee:General chair:A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, AustriaProgram Chairs:Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology , AustriaStavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete , GreecePoster &#38; Demo Chairs:Giuseppe Amato, Istituto di scienza e technologie dell'informazione "A.Faedo" , ItalyPavel Zezula, Masaryk University Brno , CzechWorkshop Chairs:Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde , United KingdomDieter Merkl, University of Western Sydney , AustraliaPanel Chairs:László Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , HungaryEd Fox, Virginia Tech University , United States of AmericaTutorial Chairs:Nozha Boujemaa, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) , FranceShin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics , JapanBest Paper Award Chair:Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer - IPSI, GermanyPublicity Chairs:Julien Masanes, Bibliothèque nationale de France , FranceMichael Bauer, Technische Universität München , GermanyLocal Organizing Chairs:Eugen Muehlvenzl, Austrian Computer Society , AustriaMax Kaiser, Austrian National Library , AustriaAlexander Schatten, Vienna University of Technology , AustriaCarl Rauch, Vienna University of Technology , Austria