The Russian-British Workshop on Digital Libraries will take place on June 16-17, 1999 in Moscow, Russia. The theme is UK e-Lib Programme and Russian Digital Libraries Programme.

ORGANISED BY

		Institute of the Information Society - Russia
		The British Council Russia
		Institute of High Performance Computing and Data Bases of the Russian Ministry of Science and Technologies
		Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences

SPONSORED BY

		Russian Ministry of Science and Technologies
		Russian Foundation for Basic Research
		Russian Foundation for Technological Development
		The British Council Russia

TELECOMMUNICATION SUPPORT BY

Academic and Research Network FREEnet

INFORMATION SUPPORT BY

		Journal of the Information Society
		Compulog Journal

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts submission deadline: April 25, 1999

Notice of acceptance: May 10, 1999

Papers submission deadline: May 20, 1999

Workshop dates: June 16-17, 1999

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairpersons:

Dr. Yuri Hohlov (Institute of the Information Society - Russia)
Antony Andrews (The British Council Russia)

Members:

Prof. Alexander Antopolsky (Scientific and Technical Centre "Informregister")
Prof. Alexander Bogdanov (Institute of High Performance Computing and Data Bases)
Ms. Tatiana Ershova (Institute of the Information Society - Russia)
Prof. Andrei Fonotov (Russian Foundation for Technological Development)
Dr. Vladimir Nechiporenko (Russian Ministry of Science and Technologies)
Dr. Andrei Mendkovich (Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences)
Dr. Irina Romanova (The British Council, Moscow)
Dr. Ivan Senchenya (Centre for Preparation and Implementation of International Projects on Technical Assistance)
Prof. Oleg Syuntyurenko (Russian Foundation for Basic Research)

WORKSHOP

The workshop will take place in the conference hall of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninskij pr. 47).

The workshop will be broadcasted as a Mbone videoconference to active sites in St.Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Novgorod and Ekaterinburg. Organisations wishing to join the videoconference are welcome to apply to sid@free.net.

The Workshop programme presupposes both plenary talks and short presentations. All accepted talks and presentations will be published as a special issue of the electronic journal "Russian Digital Libraries" (http://www.iis.ru/el-bib).

OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

The workshop will be aimed at presenting new research results, discussing policy issues, including Russian-British co-operation, at demonstrating new digital libraries and related technologies. Computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, museum workers, archivists and others in academia, government, and industry will attend.

Topics of particular interest will include but are not limited to:

• Digital library models and systems
• Information retrieval, navigation, indexing, catalogues
• User interfaces
• Interoperability, metadata, multilinguality
• Multimedia information management and digitisation
• Building up and exploiting DL collections
• DL and collaborative work
• Electronic publishing
• Economic, legal and social issues
• International DL co-operation

REGISTRATION

Participants are requested to get registered by the e-mail:

rbdlw99@iis.ru

by sending a message with the following information: surname, first name, position, organization, address, postcode, town, country, phone, fax, e-mail.

Submission of abstracts finished on 25 April 1999.

COSTS

No registration fee will be requested for participation at the Workshop. Coffee breaks and lunches will be provided by the Organising Committee. Participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs except invited speakers.

INTERPRETATION

Working languages will be Russian and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided during the workshop sessions.