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Conference Overview - ELPUB History - ELPUB Proceedings - 2009 Programme Committee

Conference Overview - Electronic publishing via the Internet is continuously changing its shapes and models, challenging traditional players to adapt to new contexts. Innovative technologies enable individuals, scholars, communities and networks to establish contacts, exchange data, produce information, share knowledge. Open access sources and commercial players make contents available for a heterogeneous audience in diversity of environments, from business to private life, from educational and cultural activities to leisure time, and in a large variety of devices, from personal computers to mobile media.

New opportunities and new needs challenge us to rethink electronic publishing, to innovate communication paradigms and technologies, to make information not just a flat equivalent of a paper but a truly digital format, to allow machine processing and new services, to face the future of mobile life. The ELPUB 2009 conference will focus on key issues in e-communications, exploring dissemination channels, business models, technologies, methods and concepts.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications and electronic publishing; combination of general and technical issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent work. ELPUB 2009 will offer a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates, poster presentations and demonstrations. Social events and sight-seeing tours will also be available to participants.

Conference Location: Milan, Italy. Milan is the largest metropolitan area in Italy, one of the largest in Europe: 7,4 million population. It is the Italian capital of industry and business and well renowned as one of the world capitals of fashion and design. Milan is one of the oldest artistic centres in Northern Italy and its surroundings include the beautiful Alps and the famous Garda, Maggiore and Como lakes. All this makes Milan a perfect place for sight-seeing, cultural visits and exciting shopping, not to mention enjoying Italian food and wines.

Conference Host: The State University of Milan is the third largest university in Italy after Rome and Naples. The venue is the main building, in the centre of Milan, 3 minutes on foot from the Cathedral. It was made in 1450 under Duke Francesco Sforza, who also built the famous Castle. ELPUB 2009 is organized by CILEA, a consortium of Italian Universities founded in 1974 to promote the use of advanced ICT in academic and research environments, to support technological transfer and to manage ICT services, facilities and infrastructures. Within CILEA, the AePIC team deals with innovative e-publishing technologies and models, promoting Open Access to knowledge through sustainable online publishing initiatives.

About ELPUB: The ELPUB 2009 conference will keep the tradition of the previous international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil (2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006), Austria (2007) and Canada (2008), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses.

ELPUB History - Previous Conferences:

 

ELPUB Proceedings - ELPUB proceedings are indexed in ISI Thomson - INSPEC - ACM - EmeraldInsight Computer Abstracts - DBLP Computer Science Bibliography - LISA. ELPUB papers are available (Open Access) at elpub.scix.net

2009 Programme Committee

  • Baptista, Ana Alice   University of Minho (Portugal)
  • Borbinha, José   INESC-ID / IST – Lisbon Technical University (Portugal)
  • Chan, Leslie University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada)
  • Costa, Sely M.S.   University of Brasilia (Brazil)
  • Delgado, Jaime   Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
  • Dobreva, Milena   University of Strathclyde (Scotland) & IMI-BAS (Bulgaria)
  • Engelen, Jan   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
  • Galimberti, Paola University of Milan (Italy)
  • Gargiulo, Paola   CASPUR (Italy)
  • Gradmann, Stefan   University of Hamburg (Germany)
  • Güntner, Georg   Salzburg Research (Austria)
  • Hedlund, Turid   Swedish School of Economics and BA, Helsinki (Finland)
  • Horstmann, Wolfram   University of Bielefeld (Germany)
  • Ikonomov, Nikola   Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgaria)
  • Iyengar, Arun   IBM Research (USA)
  • Jezek, Karel   University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech Republic)
  • Knoll, Adolf   Czech National Library (Czech Republic)
  • Krottmaier, Harald   Graz University of Technology (Austria)
  • Linde, Peter   Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
  • Lioma,Christina Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
  • Martens, Bob   Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
  • Mendéz, Eva Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Spain)
  • Moens, Marie-Francine   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
  • Mornati, Susanna   CILEA (Italy)
  • Morrison, Heather British Columbia Electronic Library Network (Canada)
  • Nisheva-Pavlova, Maria    Sofia University (Bulgaria)
  • Opas-Hänninen, Lisa Lena University of Oulu (Finland)
  • Paepen, Bert   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
  • Savenije, Bas   Utrecht University Library (The Netherlands)
  • Schranz, Markus   Pressetext Austria (Austria)
  • Smith, John   University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
  • Tonta, Yasar   Hacettepe University (Turkey)


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