Digital Library
Digital Library 2019
Call for Papers
"Digital Horizons"
Innovation in memory and research institutions
March 1, 2019 in Graz, University of Graz, ReSoWi Center
The event series "Digital Library" serves the exchange of experience, coordination and cooperation between cultural and scientific institutions in the field of digital libraries.
With lectures, colloquia, tutorials, as well as a poster and company exhibition, the conference offers a discussion forum for the specific challenges that institutions face in the design of modern online knowledge repositories, research and knowledge transfer.
The 2019 Digital Horizons conference will take a look at new methods and emerging technologies for managing cultural data and research results in the age of open innovation and open science.
The topics of the "Digital Horizons" conference are:
Open Innovation: new frameworks and concepts
- Open Science: accessible science and research for all
- Creating knowledge together with Open Collaboration
- Access to scientific results via Open Access
Methods and technologies
- Use of artificial intelligence (AI) - artificial intelligence
- Linking real and virtual information: augmented reality
- 3D modelling, 3D printing, visualization, simulation and 4D representation
Management of cultural and research data
- Long-term availability, long-term archiving - new approaches?
- Legal and ethical aspects (big data management and data mining, data security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, open science...)
- Metadata and vocabularies, extended possibilities in data collection using deep learning and other new technologies
We welcome submissions (presentation, poster, workshop) that address the theoretical foundations or practical solutions for these topics from the perspective of cultural and scientific institutions.
All contributions submitted by the deadline will be reviewed by the program committee. Submissions and their content will be treated confidentially; accepted submissions will be treated confidentially until the author is notified of acceptance.
Important dates
Deadline for submissions (abstracts only, max. 800 words, short CV of the presenter(s)):
October 20, 2018
Attention: Call extended until November 4!
When submitting your contribution, please indicate whether you would like to present it as a lecture (20 min) or poster (3-5 min presentation in plenary + exhibition).
You can also submit a workshop/tutorial proposal (120 min) (please include a short description, schedule, short CV of the presenter(s)).
Notification of authors about acceptance/rejection of submitted contributions:
November 20, 2018
Conference language is German. However, contributions are also possible in English.
Please send your abstracts to:
Ms. Gerda Koch(kochg(at)europeana-local.at).
To the website of the conference series "Digital Library"
The Digital Library took place from March 2-3, 2017 at the University of Graz, and this time posed the question of the "Future of digital heritage?". How should data archiving, infrastructures, services and partnership models be sustainably designed to meet future requirements in a highly digitized world?
To the conference website with program and presentations
Call for Papers
"The future of digital heritage?"
Sustainable solutions for cultural and scientific institutions
We welcome contributions that address the theoretical foundations or practical solutions for the following topics from the perspective of cultural and scientific institutions:
- Services, products and solutions
- Innovative services for new generations of users
- Requirements for product design (e.g. user orientation, design thinking, prosumer integration)
- Connectivity, APIs, apps, multi-device support, semantic web
- Infrastructures, business models and partnerships
- Sustainable concepts of long-term archiving, metadata management
- Exemplary cooperations (e.g. private-public cooperation, crowdsourcing)
- Innovative partnership models, open (research) data
- Data analysis, data security, legal aspects, information architectures
- Knowledge transfer, modern usage behavior and open access
- Reuse of digital storage in teaching and science
- Open access, open science, access to cultural research data
- Museums, libraries and archives as mediators of cultural heritage for future generations
- Guiding principles, visions and framework conditions
- Future scenarios and visions for the digital world of tomorrow
- Political guidelines and approaches, policies at universities and research institutions for collections, collection decision-making processes
- Sustainable digitization of cultural and scientific heritage for future generations as a political mission
Detailed information on the call can be found on this website.
The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2016.
Please send your submissions to Ms. Gerda Koch
Networked worlds: Digital cultural heritage as a public good
The 6th conference in the "Digital Library" series took place from 26-26.2.2016 under the theme "Networked Worlds: Digital cultural heritage as a public good".
For further information on the event and the collected presentation documents
Our digital memory: long-term archiving of cultural and scientific heritage
The "Digital Library" was held as a pre-conference and in cooperation with the 2nd annual conference of the DHd (Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries) "From data to knowledge: the digital humanities as mediators between information and interpretation" and took place from 23-24 February 2015 at the University of Graz.
To the program and the collected contributions of the pre-conference
The fourth conference in the "Digital Library" series was held under the motto "Cultural Heritagein the Cloud".
Participants from Austria and abroad organized an interesting conference that addressed the latest trends in the field of "Digital Cultural Heritage".
On Thursday, three workshops were offered - from 1) Austrian Books Online of the Austrian National Library, 2) Textgrid and 3) Europeanan Cloud.
On Friday, there were presentations not only from German-speaking countries on the topics of 1) New forms of IT services for cultural institutions, 2) Business models and usage scenarios and 3) Services, technologies and methods.
A poster session and a company exhibition rounded off the conference.