Topics relevant to the symposium include (but are not limited to):

Modeling and Representation:
* Document representation and standards including interchange standards, markup languages, style sheets, type representation, multimedia (incl. HTML-5, MPEG, SMIL, SVG)
* Metadata creation and standards, use of semantic web technologies
* Hypertext/hypermedia, distributed documents, blogs, wikis
* Linking techniques and standards, integration with other digital artifacts

Generation, Manipulation, and Presentation:
* Document authoring tools and systems
* Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) algorithms and systems
* Automatically generated documents, automated layout and composition, variable data printing
* Adaptive, responsive documents, content customization
* Mobile platforms and documents
* Document transformation and rich-web-client models
* Document internationalization, multilingual representations

Collections, Systems, and Management:
* Collections databases and repositories, storage, indexing, retrieval, versioning, deduplication
* Enterprise content management: models and standards (CMIS), scale and performance, platforms and applications
* Digital libraries and archives, preservation systems
* Document system components: security, APIs (SAX, DOM), versioning, synchronization
* Document systems and workflows
* Management of collaboratively authored online documents

Document Analysis and Semantic Enrichment:
* Structure and representation analysis (layout, OCR, visual analysis) and classification
* Linguistic and semantic (content) analysis, categorization, classification, clustering
* Automatic tagging, named entity disambiguation, semantic linking
* Automatic abstract generation and metadata extraction
* Multi-lingual and cross-lingual indexing and search

User Experience:
* Navigation, search
* Usability, accessibility, readability and aesthetics
* Collaborative authoring and editing, curation and annotation
* Workflows, integration and interaction between human and automated processes
* Culture-dependent layouts

Security:
* Secure document workflows, including policy and access
* Security printing, including document identification, tagging and meta-data
* Cyber-physical document workflows, especially electronic/print options
* Embedded systems: access, workflow and security of documents on embedded devices (mobile, printing, etc.)

Applications:
* Digital humanities, digital preservation and archiving

* eBooks and digital publishing
* and all other application areas