The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, a scientific forum on digital libraries that has been held annually over the past 14 years, will take place on September 26-29, 2011 in Berlin. The conference has now been renamed 'International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries'.
Many academic libraries are actively involved in building institutional repositories of books, papers, theses and other works. Many of these repositories are being made available to the general public with few restrictions, in accordance with the goals of open access. This is in contrast to the publication of research in commercial journals, where the publishers often limit access rights. At the same time, the process of acquiring, creating, processing, retrieving, disseminating and using knowledge, information, data and metadata has undergone significant changes over the past few years. This includes an evolution in the amount and diversity of resources that are available, a social shift in the paradigm of how to experience information, and the rise of globally collaborative and personalised approaches.
The conference is organised by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science). It will seek to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries.
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