Day 1 (5 December 2006): Tutorials
Day 2, 3, and 4 (6–8 December 2006): Conference sessions
Day 4 (8 December 2006): Panel discussion and valedictory session

The conference programme will include plenary sessions, invited and contributed papers, poster sessions, product presentations, panel discussions, and exhibits. The conference will comprise a series of parallel sessions.

Tutorials : 5 December 2006
The tutorials will aim to familiarize participants with the basic principles of the field, impart technical training, and make them aware of the potential of DL (digital libraries) and e-learning in the current scenario. There will be 6–8 tutorial sessions of about 2–4 hours each.
Some of them are

Web Archiving and Digital Preservation

Web technologies and persistent information and knowledge repositories (XML, RDF, …..)

Practical Digital Library Interoperability Standards or Building Digital Library Collections with Greenstone

Search and retrieval

Thesauri and ontologies in digital libraries (Part 1: Structure and use in knowledge-based assistance to users and Part 2: Design, evaluation, and development

Knowledge Management

Dublin Core- Metadata

Keynote speakers
Three keynote addresses consist of 30 minutes each.

Conference sessions : 6–8 December 2006
The conference programme will include plenary sessions, invited and contributed papers, poster sessions, and panel discussions. The sessions will comprise a series of parallel sessions to engage the delegates with a wide range of presentations of their interests from leading national and international experts. Each session (one and a half hours) will consist of invited talks (20 minutes), contributed papers (10/12 minutes) and discussion (30 minutes).
Some of the proposed sessions are

Multi-media digital libraries

Tools and techniques

Digital library models and architectures

E-learning: content development and policy issues

Dublin Core and Metadata standards

System scalability and interoperability

Semantics, thesauri, and ontology

Users interactions / human-machine interactions

Digital preservation

Knowledge organization and management

Multi-lingual retrieval system and unicode

DRM and copyright issues

Information Storage and Retrieval

Standards in DL design and development

Digital divide

Network and information sharing

Economic issues of DL and E-learning

DL and E-learning case studies

Planning, development, and management of DL and e-learning

e-publishing

Open archives initiatives

User studies and system evaluation

Digital library services

DL infrastructure

DL consortium

Others

Workshops
We also intend to organize 1-2 parallel workshops during the conference, such as

Access management (how it is happening in different countries)
John Paschoud, UK (accepted)

ETDL (Electronic Thesis Digital Library) initiatives

OAI (Open Archive Initiatives)

Business sessions
Business sessions will comprise product presentations by leading business organizations in digital library technologies, products, and solutions. This will help create awareness amongst participants regarding various products and solutions available for digital library projects.

Valedictory session : 8 December 2006
The curtain to ICDL 2006 will come down on the fourth day with the closing events in the late afternoon.