World Library and Information Congress:
75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
"Libraries create futures: Building on
cultural heritage"
23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Call for Papers
Statistics and Evaluation Section
Information Technology Section
Preservation and Conservation Section
Theme: "Statistics for the Cultural
Heritage"
This is the first call for papers on the use of statistics for
building the future of our cultural heritage and IT-based services to
create or present the field.
Topics for submission might include:
- the development of statistical measures and
methods to show the impact of cultural heritage services
- metrics for uptake of cultural objects of
different types
- the use of statistics to show the growing need
for preservation, digitization or other It-based activities like
multimedia retrieval, semantic search
- the evaluation of cultural heritage
services
Submissions
The language of the session is English. Presentations should be no
more than 20 minutes in duration. Proposals for papers should include
an abstract of no longer than 250 words. A short biography of the
presenter and contact information (name, full address, phone, fax,
email, etc) should be included with each submission. Full papers must
be between 3000 and 6000 words in length.
Proposals should be submitted by 16 February 2009
to:
Email: mfarrell@imls.gov or
pollr@uni-muenster.de
All materials will be reviewed by the Review Committee and
successful applicants will be notified by 9 March
2009. Accepted papers are due to IFLA on 15 April
2009 and must be an original submission not published
elsewhere.
Please note: All expenses incurred for attending
the Milan conference are the responsibility of the authors whose papers
are accepted. Authors/presenters are expected to attend the World
Library and Information Congress and present their papers in person.