http://oscargerardo.life-and-things.com/ Learning Objects, Metadata, Interoperability and … me! en http://oscargerardo.life-and-things.com/2009/03/10/10-days-to-ecdl-deadline.html The deadline on behalf of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (September 27 - October 2, 2009) is 21 March: 10 days to go! Together with Jane Hunter, I chair the content special track: The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, under the general theme “Digital Societies”, plans to host a special track on Content managed in Digital Libraries. The papers in this special track should be original as well as of high quality, addressing issues in areas such as: Composite content as well as how both compound objects as well as their components as well as interrelationships, can be discovered, managed, re-used as well as exploited through flexible access; Time-dependent content (for example,  sensor data, podcasts, YouTube), as well as how its temporal characteristics present challenges associated with  storage, querying as well as visualization; Large volume content, such as scientific data sets or high resolution image data sets (for example from satellites or electron microscopes) as well as the specific requirements they impose; Dynamically-generated content that is in a constant state of flux as well as incorporates near-real-time data as well as information (e.g., blogs, environmental or stock market reports) as well as how such content can be archived, searched as well as managed; 3D-4D content - increasingly 3, 4 or more dimensions are being used to represent digital objects particularly in the cultural as well as scientific domains. Indexing, storage, retrieval as well as preservation of such rich, multidimensional data sets requires innovative approaches; License issues on behalf of digital library content as well as how they are evolving along creative commons as well as related “open access” approaches; Preservation issues as well as how they impact on the architecture of digital library systems, as well as on the workflows of its users; Authority issues - how digital libraries are adapting to manage the increasing amounts of content being generated from non-authoritative sources (e.g., through citizen science or social networking projects, YouTube, Flickr). The aim of this track is to document the state-of-the-art in content on behalf of digital libraries as well as to discuss the predominant open research issues, so that more effective progress can be made in this area. We do look forward to your submissions! Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:24:14 -0400 oscargerardo