“Asian Digital libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers”

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is the leading event in Asia in digital libraries research. Through a series of nine annual conferences, with focus on the development, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, the ICADL has gained its reputation as an important and well-known international event in the field of computer science and library and information science. It provides an effective forum for IT and information professionals to share and discuss latest development of digital libraries. The Conference has shown a significant impact not only in Asian countries in particular, but also in the whole world in general. Following nine Asian cities of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Bangalore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Kyoto, it is a great pleasure for Ha Noi to be the next host of the 10th ICADL 2007.
The 10th ICADL 2007 will take place from 10th to 13th December 2007 at Ha Noi, Viet Nam.

Conference theme

Into its tenth year, the theme of ICADL 2007 will be “Asian Digital libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers”. In line with this theme, we are soliciting papers that examine the history and development of digital libraries, especially projects in the Asian region, as well as papers that discuss future developments and cutting-edge technologies in digital libraries.

The Conference is a precious chance for participants from all over the world to meet and share knowledge on all aspects of digital libraries development. Participants are from diverse background, including practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers from various disciplines such as computer science, information technology, library and information science, archives, knowledge management, etc.. ICADL 2007 Ha Noi will be more honourable with the presence of leading professors from famous universities and research institution such as Columbia University, MIT, Virginia Institute of Technology, Library of Congress, Asian Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technical University, National Institute of Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Melbourne University, etc.

ICADL 2007 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and is jointly hosted by the National Center for Scientific & Technological Information (NACESTI), the National Library of Vietnam (NLV), General Science Library of Hochiminh City (GSL), the Library & Information Center of the Vietnam National University Hanoi (LIC/VNUH), Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), Vietnam Association on Scientific and Technological Information & Documentation (VASTID), Vietnam Library Association (VLA), Vietnam Association for Information Processing (VAIP), and other organizations.

ICADL 2007 is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI), Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) of Vietnam.