1. CLEF 2008 Final Session CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008

2. CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008 CLEF 2008 Proceedings  To be published in Springer LNCS (hopefully!)  Deadline for Submission of Papers: 21 November Guidelines – see Springer LNCS Instructions for authors Papers must be track specific: for each group (not Institution): main paper 8 p. max any additional papers – max 4 p. Remember LNCS papers are scientific papers – distinct from Working Notes reports Submission procedure as last year – information will be circulated by mid-October by Managing Editor: Danilo Giampiccolo

3. Come to CLEF – and see Europe! CLEF 2002 Rome CLEF 2006 Alicante CLEF 2005 Vienna CLEF 2004 Bath CLEF 2003 Trondheim CLEF 2008 Aarhus CLEF 2001 Darmstadt CLEF 2007 Budapest CLEF 2009 Corfu CLEF 2000 Lisbon

4. CLEF 2009: See you in Corfu! CLEF 2009 Corfu

5. CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008 CLEF 2009 Workshop Tentative time and place  ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, 28 September – 2 October 2009  CLEF Workshop: 30 September – 2 October 2009 24 September – 26 September 2009

6. CLEF & ECDL  More Integration with ECDL  Multilinguality IS important for Digital libraries  What are we/they doing wrong? Importance of the Digital Library task  Multilingual Session in ECDL (we hope) It really depends on you CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008

7. CLEF in the Future  CLEF 2010 ???  It really depends on you  It depends on the success of CLEF BUT also on its ability to evolve and move towards the “real world”  Research should not be an end in itself – must be targeted towards real needs CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008

8. CLEF 2009 Tracks Main Tracks  Ad Hoc  iCLEF  Question Answering including QAST  ImageCLEF  VideoCLEF  Intellectual Property (CLEF-IP)  Log File Analysis (LogCLEF)  INFILE CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008

9. CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark 17-19 September 2008 CLEF 2008-2009 Preliminary Schedule 2008  mid-October: Final information on submission of Proceedings paper  early November: Release of Preliminary Call for Participation for CLEF 2009  21 November: Deadline submission Proc.Paper 2009  mid-January: Registration opens  mid-February: Data release begins  mid-April: Detailed track guidelines released (hopefully)  mid-July: Results released  mid-August: Submission of Working Notes  End September – Beginning October: Workshop