Objective and Topics

Digital Libraries (DL) is a field of research and development aimed at promotion of the theory and practice of processing, distribution, storage, retrieval and analysis of digital objects of different nature. These contemporary repositories of knowledge appear as complex information systems, development and use of which require the solution of many scientific, technological, methodological, economic, legal and other issues. Alongside with textual and multimedia digital objects, usual for traditional libraries, such systems have to deal with structured data, with a great variety of digital objects of a various nature as well as with describing them metadata. Challenges associated with the management of so diverse information resources and the increasing variety of user needs invoke multitude of advanced information system technologies. In recent years, the new web technologies are more and more widely applied here, first of all the technologies and standards of the Semantic Web.

Development of Digital Libraries technologies is becoming more and more essential to meet higher standards of science, economics, education, culture, health as well as of the quality of life in general. Scientific Digital Libraries play an important role in actively promoted initiatives of the scientific community in providing of the open access to research results and in the formation of the open science. Intensive activity in different countries on the digital preservation of information accumulated by the mankind on the Earth, the Universe, Science, Literature, Art, Environment and Man, contributes to formation of global knowledge and data repositories.

The series of the All-Russian scientific conferences RCDL is presented on the site rcdl.ru. They aimed at the formation of the Russian corps of the global DL community of scientists. The conferences held in the cities of St. Petersburg, Protvino, Petrozavodsk, Dubna, Pushchino, Yaroslavl, Suzdal, Pereslavl, Petrozavodsk, Kazan and Voronezh and attended by more than a thousand scientists from leading Russian and foreign research centers in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, USA, Ukraine and other countries.

RCDL-2012 conference topics include but are not limited to the following

1. Advanced projects for digital libraries and their implementation experience.
2. Organization of DL information resources.
3. DL architectures and infrastructures.
4. Infrastructures and applications for extra large amounts of data («Big data», Grid).
5. Semantic integration of information resources from a set of heterogeneous sources.
6. Metadata, ontologies, methods and tools for knowledge representation.
7. Semantic Web and Linked Data.
8. Web of Data.
9. Digital libraries of data;
10. Data Mining.
11. Extracting information from texts.
12. Methods and technologies for processing and retrieval of textual, multimedia and semistructured information.
13. Methods and tools for spatial data management.
14. Digital preservation of scientific and cultural heritage.
15. Information security.
16. Virtual environments for research.
17. Scientometrics in digital libraries.
18. Social networks.
19. User behavior modeling.
20. User interfaces, personalization of interfaces.
21. Models and tools for assessment and monitoring of digital resource quality.
22. Tools for development of digital libraries and digital collections.
23. Digital Libraries in science, education, culture, medicine, economics, museums, e-governments.