The purpose of the RCDL conference series is to stimulate evolution of the Russian digital libraries community and encourage research in this field. RCDL provides an open forum for exchange of experience, ideas and results as well as stimulates communication and cooperation between experts in the field.


A major Russian event in the digital libraries field, RCDL is attracting increased attention from foreign participants and helps to improve international collaboration. English is the second official language of the conference and most of Russian participants are able to speak English, providing a foundation for efficient communication.

Over 8 years of RCDL history several hundreds russian and foreign participants attended RCDL events including researchers, developers, practitioners, students, postgraduates, policy makers and DL users.

RCDL closely cooperates with related world conferences including ECDL and JCDL stimulating international collaboration in the digital library field. Conference is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter.

Building and deployment of digital libraries require contribution from numerous scientific disciplines. Programmes of past RCDL conferences (St.Petersburg, 2000 - Protvino, 2001 - Petrozavodsk, 2002 - Dubna, 2003 - St.Petersburg, 2004 - Pushchino, 2005 - Yaroslavl, 2006 - Suzdal, 2007 - Pereslavl, 2008 - Dubna and 2009 - Petrozavodsk) covered variety of related topics.

Special attention is paid to the progress of digital libraries research and application projects funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and other programs.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Methods and models for information representation.
2. Metadata, ontologies and instruments for knowledge representation.
3. Perspective infrastructures of digital libraries, digital libraries in grid-environment.
4. Virtual research environments.
5. Social nets and digital libraries.
6. Tools for digital libraries and digital collections creation.
7. Methods and technologies of working with text, multimedia and semistructured information.
8. Information preservation methods and digital archives.
9. Interoperability and integration of information.
10. Scientometrics in digital libraries.
11. Information security.
12. User interfaces, human factors.
13. Digital libraries in science, education, culture, medicine and economics.
14. Technology standards of digital libraries.

Collocated workshops on related topics enrich the conference program even further. In particular, since 2003 Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP) attracts leading Russian IR researchers.

RCDL Steering Committie:

• Chair: Leonid Kalinichenko (Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Antopolsky (Moscow, Russia)
• Arkady Avramenko (Pushchino, Russia)
• Pavel Braslavsky (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
• Mikhail Kogalovsky (Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Marchuk (Novosibirsk, Russia)
• Igor Nekrestyanov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Vladislav Shirikov (Dubna, Russia)
• Yuriy Smetanin (Moscow, Russia)
• Vladimir Smirnov (Yaroslavl, Russia)
• Vladimir Vdovitsyn (Petrozavodsk, Russia)
• Victor Zakharov (Moscow, Russia)