DOCENG

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2013) which is being held September 10-13, 2013 in Florence, Italy. This symposium series remains the premier international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. This year continues the focus on the digital humanities from last year's symposium and introduces a new focus: eBooks, their impact and supporting technologies. A highlight will be three keynote speeches in these areas by Floriana Esposito (Università degli Studi "Aldo Moro" Bari), Alastair Dunning (The European Library) and Steve Pettifer (University of Manchester).

We are also proud of three new events in this year's symposium. We have introduced a Doctoral Consortium to provide expert advice to students undertaking a PhD in the field of document engineering, "Birds of a Feather (BoF)" discussion groups as well as a DocEng Best Student Paper Award that complements the existing ACM SIGWEB DocEng Best Paper Award.

As in previous years, the first day of the conference is devoted to workshops. We received 6 workshop and tutorial proposals from which 3 exciting workshops were selected: Document Changes: modeling, detection, storing and visualization (DChanges); Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments (DH-CASE); and Reimagining Digital Publishing for Technical Documents.

This year's symposium attracted a large number of submissions from all around the world: North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. We received 50 full paper submissions of which 16 were accepted (32%) and a further 64 short paper, application note and poster submissions of which 31 were accepted (48%), with a further 6 accepted as posters. These covered a wide variety of topics: Digital Humanities, Layout and Presentation Generation, Version Control, Search and Sense Making, Architecture and Processes, Document Recognition and Analysis, Multimedia, and Metadata and Annotation.