Doctoral Consortium

Continuing a tradition, the ECDL 2010 Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as a forum for PhD students to share ideas about the development and use of Digital Libraries, compare approaches, discuss future research problems and receive feedback from the international Digital Library community. The Doctoral Consortium aims to:

  • provide PhD students with a friendly and lively atmosphere for presenting their research ideas, exchange experiences with peers, and receive constructive feedback on their work from the international research community;
  • help students and doctoral candidates formulate research questions and organise their research;
  • help forge new relationships and collaborations within the International Digital Library community, promoting collaborative research; and
  • support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths.

The ECDL 2010 DC invites PhD students whose doctoral research is related to digital libraries and at a stage of progress where feedback from the international community might be of value, to submit extended abstracts of up to 10 pages describing their work. It is expected that students who submit extended abstracts, will have finished the first part of their research (one-two years of their studies) and be still in the middle of their research work.

A panel of prominent researchers participating in the ECDL Programme Committee will conduct the workshop. They will review all the submissions and comment on the content of the work as well as on the presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes are reserved for discussion and feedback from the panel of reviewers. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on a single full day. Up to 12 students will have the opportunity to participate.

Submissions should be related to one or more of the conference themes as stated in the Call for Papers. Moreover, they should be presented in a way that demonstrates the link to the chosen conferences theme(s), and they should contain:

  1. a clear formulation of the research topic and research hypotheses;
  2. an outline of the significant problems in the field and their current solutions;
  3. a description of the proposed approach and its expected contributions;
  4. a discussion of preliminary results; and
  5. an evaluation (-plan) of the research.

All papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please send your submission directly by email to both doctoral consortium chairs.

Publications
Abstracts of the papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

Paper submission: April 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2010
Submission of final abstract: May 24, 2010

Doctoral Consortium: September 6, 2010

Doctoral Consortium Organisers
Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Doctoral Consortium Panel
To be announced