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This issue of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Bulletin brings us the papers of the Doctoral Consortium (DC) held at the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), in Vienna, Austria.
The DC ran during the ECDL, on multiple sessions, from 19 to 21 September 2005, with 15 students representing institutions from 10 different countries. Each student presented his/her work to the other colleagues and the members of the DC Committee. After their presentation, each student received comprehensive comments from at least one of the 14 members of the DC Committee. This was followed by open and very interesting group discussions.
The bigger share of cases focus on search and retrieval (Kirstin Lyon, Georgina Ramírez, Amélie Imafouou, Giorgio Di Nunzio. Michael Springmann, Sascha Kriewel, Ingo Frommholz, Stefania Ghita). These students presented a wide variety of complementary approaches, creating the conditions for interesting discussions. Other, no less interesting, cases that resulted in engaging discussions were also presented in the areas of indexing and classification (Koraljka Golub, Arne Jacobs); information filtering (Claudia Hess); digital library architectures (Francisco Martínez); digital preservation (Alexander Egger, Miguel Ferreira); and learning objects (Jehad Najjar and Erik Duvall).
After the presentations and discussion in the DC sessions, the students were invited to produce more detailed and revised versions of their original papers, taking into consideration the feedback received from the members of the DC Committee. All the students accepted the challenge, making it possible for us to publish them now proudly here, under the auspices of the IEEE TCDL.
This issue of the IEEE TCDL Bulletin is, therefore, the result of a chain of successful efforts that started with the students and their advisers, was followed by the impressive commitment of the members of the DC Committee and of the local support of the ECDL staff in Vienna, and was finally concluded by the IEEE TCDL. This was the first time that the DC was organized within the scope of the ECDL series of conferences, but the success of the 2006 DC has already made mandatory the continuation of the doctoral consortiums in future conferences. Therefore, the next DC is already planned, and it will be held at the 10th ECDL, in September 17, 2006, in Alicante, Spain. We also anticipate that the DC will continue receiving the support of the IEEE TCDL.
The original papers, the composition of the Consortium Committee and other information about the 2006 DC can be found on-line at:
<http://www.dei.ist.utl.pt/~jlb/ECDL2005-DC/index.html>.
Copyright ©
José Borbinha
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