THE CONFERENCE TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Models and standards for information and metainformation representation (including thesauri and ontologies) in DLM
  

• Methods and tools for data search, discovery, retrieval and analysis in DLM
  

• Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, metainformation
  

• Open architectures for digital information environments
  

• Human aspects of DL (user inters, user behavior, personalization, data visualization (rendering) and analysis, intellectual property, user communities)
  

• Analysis and processing of the natural languages, images, video-, audio- and other data
  

• Multilingual data access and multilingual data service
  

• DL, DL prototype and digital collections for science, education, culture, health care and management
  

• Digital collections in traditional libraries, museums, archives, information centers
  

• Advanced technologies of digital collection generation, storage and system maintenance
  

• Digital collection cataloging, indexing, referencing, maintenance of integrity and consistency
  

• DL security and information protection
  

• GRID technologies and DL (DL applications, cross-DLs links, GRID and DLs interoperability)