ECDL 2003 is the 7th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences. ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues.

The conference will include presentations and discussions about core technical issues as well as applications in fields such as Education; Libraries; Museums; Archives; Government; Health Care and Medicine; Digital Earth/Geospatial; Law; Art and Music; Humanities; Culture; Social Sciences; News and Current Affairs; Information Industry; Environmental Monitoring; Natural Sciences; E-commerce.

Contribution topics include but are not limited to:

o General concepts, methods, standards, economics and strategies
o Collection building, management and integration
o Knowledge organization, discovery and retrieval
o Architectures and interoperability
o Mediation, user interaction and collaboration