*** Apologies for cross-postings ***

It is a pleasure to invite you to ELPUB 2006, the 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing "Digital spectrum:Integrating Technology and Culture", which will be held in Bansko, Bulgaria, on 14-16 June 2006.

As the ElPub 2006 conference is growing closer, abstracts of all papers and posters to be presented are already available on http://www.elpub.net.

*** Invited Speakers ***

--Herbert van de Sompel, Team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory The Brave New World of Scholarly Repositories

--Dan Matei, Director of the Romanian Institute for Cultural Memory Worldwide "Communitarian" Online Publishing: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking

*** Workshops ***

-- The Text Encoding Initiative anno 2005 (Burnard, L., Driscoll, M.) -- Independent Journals: Solutions for Low-cost, Open Access Journal Publishing (Prosser, D.)

*** General and technical paper tracks, poster and demonstration sessions ***

*** A Special Session, offering views for the future of Electronic Publishing dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the ELPUB conferences ***

*** The conference is part of the events by which the National Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria for UNESCO celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bulgaria's admission to the Organisation. ***

and last but not least, it will be held in the Europe's most fastly developing sky resort (unfortunately, not in the sky season :) - Bansko!

With kind regards,

Milena Dobreva (General Chair) & Bob Martens (Program Chair)