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 12 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, 2009 - Petrozavodsk, 2010 - Kazan and 2011 - Voronezh) 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 and interaction.
   
2. Metadata, ontologies and instruments
for information representation.
3. Perspective infrastructures of digital libraries, digital libraries in grid-sphere and cloud computing.
4. Virtual mediums for scientific investigations.
5. Social nets and digital libraries.
6. Instrumental methods of digital libraries and digital collections creation.
7. Methods and technologies of working with text, multimedia and semistructured information.
8. Digital archiving, preservation and curation.
9. Personalization in digital library systems.
10. Interoperability and fusion of information.
11. Scientometric measuring in digital libraries.
12. Information security.
13. User interface, human element.
14. Digital libraries in science, education, culture, medicine, economics and cultural heritage.
15. 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.

Since 2009 within the scope of conferences RCDL, the workshop "Doctoral Research on Information Technologies Related with Digital Libraries" is holded, on which authors of the works are given the possibility to present current results of the researches, and also to discuss their strengths and weaknesses with more experienced colleagues. The best talks of the workshop are recommended for publishing in journals certified by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles (VAK).

RCDL Steering Committie:

• Chair: Leonid Kalinichenko (Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Antopolsky (Moscow, Russia)
• Arkady Avramenko (Pushchino, Russia)
• Pavel Braslavsky (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
• Alexander Elizarov (Kazan)
• Mikhail Kogalovsky (Moscow, Russia)
• Sergey Kuznetsov (Moscow)
• 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)