Information and Knowledge Management in a Connected World: A Challenge for the Developing Countries
Sub-Themes
Digital Libraries and Library Automation
Digital library architectures, models, integrated access interface,
Digital archiving, preservation and sustainability: methodological, technical and legal issues.
Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections including multilingual information access and multimedia information access and multimedia information handling
Digital library security and information protection
Digital library applications: trends and future
Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation
Information and Knowledge Management
KM architecture, system design, applications and practices
Knowledge assets, barriers to knowledge
Knowledge audits, benchmarks, maturity measures
Knowledge discovery: databases and portals
Knowledge generation and transfer
Knowledge-based IT infrastructures and its role
Challenges and opportunities in KM
Innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery
Indexing and information retrieval
Security techniques
Storage models and architecture
Web technology and evolving search engines
Standards and protocols
Towards Virtual Libraries
The roles of e-journals, e-books, and open access publishing in libraries
E-publishing, open source movement, open access initiatives
Institutional repositories and electronic resources sharing
Digital divide, digital library network and information sharing
