The goal of this conference is to share and disseminate information about important current issues concerning digital library research and technology. This goal will be achieved by means of research papers, invited talks, workshops, and panels involving leading experts, as well as through demonstrations of innovative technologies and prototypes. The conference has the additional goal of indicating the importance of applications of digital library technologies in the public and private sectors of the economy by reporting on and demonstrating available systems.

SUBMISSIONS: Papers are solicited describing technical advances in ALL areas of digital library technology, including, but not limited to the areas of:

• Agent Technology
• Authoring and Scripting
• Collaborative Research
• Datamining
• Digital Library Testbed Systems
• Document Models
• Economic Issues and Billing Mechanisms
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Intellectual Property, Protection, Security and Privacy
• Knowledge Representation including Domain and User Models
• Knowledge Integration
• Meta-information
• Publishing
• Searching, Browsing, Filtering and Personalization
• Semantic and Systems Interoperability
• Resource Discovery and Management
• Standards and Protocols
• Telecommunications and Networking
• Multimedia Libraries
• Sensor Data Stores and Libraries
• User Workspaces

• Digital Earth
• Digital Sky
• Digital Law
• Digital Art
• Digital Music
• Integrating Digital Technology into Traditional Libraries
• Socio-Economic Impacts
• Geospatial Information
• Medical Applications
• Social and Natural Sciences