The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) was born in Hong Kongin 1998and hosted in Taipei (1999),Seoul(2000),Bangalore(2001), Singapore (2002), Kuala Lumpur (2003), Shanghai (2004) and Bangkok (2005). ICADL 2006 held in Kyoto, Japan was the 9th of the ICADL series. ICADL has been recognized as an important event for the digital library communities not only in Asia but also globally. The primary mission of ICADL, like the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), is to serve as a forum for exchange of new advanced te- nologies and ideas among researchers and practitioners. In addition, ICADL as a conference based in Asia is an important event not only for people in dev- oped countries but also in developing countries where there is large diversity in culture, language and development. ICADL 2006received170papersubmissionsfrom23countries.Everysubm- sion was reviewed by at least three reviewers. The Program Committee selected 46 full papers and 14 short papers based on the quality and contribution to digital library research. ICADL as well as JCDL and ECDL cover a wide range of information technologies for digital libraries as well as the human and social aspects of digital libraries. The topics of the papers in the proceedings include information extraction, information retrieval, metadata, architectures for di- tal libraries and archives, ontologies, information seeking, cultural heritage and e-learning. Keynote and Invited Talks.- The Age of Content and Knowledge Processing.- Cyber Science Infrastructure and Scholarly Information for the Promotion of e-Science in Japan.- Working Together in Developing Library and Information Science Education in the Asia Pacific.- Advanced Digital Archives.- Annotating the Web Archives - An Exploration of Web Archives Cataloging and Semantic Web.- Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for "Growing Metadata" of Cultural Heritage Objects and Its Educational Use in the CEAX Project.- A Digital Library for Preservation of Folklore Crafts, Skills, and Rituals and Its Role in Folklore Education.- A Digital Video Archive System of NDAP Taiwan.- Digital Libraries and Learning.- A Research Project to Convert Chinese Traditional Calligraphic Paintings to SCORM-Compatible E-Learning Materials.- Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education.- Distributed Repositories.- A Digital Resource Harvesting Approach for Distributed Heterogeneous Repositories.- Parallelising Harvesting.- Information Extraction.- Sibling Page Search by Page Examples.- Contextualization of a RDF Knowledge Base in the VIKEF Project.- Visualizing User Communities and Usage Trends of Digital Libraries Based on User Tracking Information.- Extracting Mnemonic Names of People from the Web.- Automatic Task Detection in the Web Logs and Analysis of Multitasking.- Extracting Structured Subject Information from Digital Document Archives.- Topic Structure Mining Using PageRank Without Hyperlinks.- Personalization for Digital Libraries.- Personalized Information Delivering Service in Blog-Like Digital Libraries.- A Personal Ontology Model for Library Recommendation System.- Research and Implementation of a Personalized Recommendation System.-Information Retrieval.- An Application Framework for Distributed Information Retrieval.- A Plugin Architecture Enabling Federated Search for Digital Libraries.- A User Study on Features Supporting Subjective Relevance for Information Retrieval Interfaces.- The Effect of Lexical Relationships on the Quality of Query Clusters.- Query Generation Using Semantic Features.- Page Sets as Web Search Answers.- Metadata.- Applying FRBR Model as a Conceptual Model in Development of Metadata for Digitized Thai Palm Leaf Manuscripts.- Management of Metadata Standards: The Case of UNIMARC.- Taxonomy Alignment for Interoperability Between Heterogeneous Digital Libraries.- A Process and Tool for the Conversion of MARC Records to a Normalized FRBR Implementation.- Digital Libraries and Archives Architecture.- Metadata Spaces: The Concept and a Case with REPOX.- Extending Greenstone for Institutional Repositories.- A Web Archiving System of the National Library of Korea: OASIS.- The DELOS Testbed for Choosing a Digital Preservation Strategy.- Multimedia Resource Retrieval and Organization.- Text Image Spotting Using Local Crowdedness and Hausdorff Distance.- Effective Image Retrieval for the M-Learning System.- Language Translation and Media Transformation in Cross-Language Image Retrieval.- A Surface Errors Locator System for Ancient Culture Preservation.- Organizing Knowledge.- Emotional Descriptors for Map-Based Access to Music Libraries.- Role of Naive Ontology in Search and Learn Processes for Domain Novices.- Semistructured Data/XML.- Kikori-KS: An Effective and Efficient Keyword Search System for Digital Libraries in XML.- Supporting Efficient Grouping and Summary Information for Semistructured Digital Libraries.- Information Seeking in Digital Archives.- Accessing Japanese Digital Libraries: Three Case Studies.- Towards Ontology Enrichment with Treatment Relations Extracted from Medical Abstracts.- Use and Linkage of Source and Output Repositories and the Expectations of the Chemistry Research Community About Their Use.- Information Organization.- Functional Composition of Web Databases.- Integration of Wikipedia and a Geography Digital Library.- Impact of Document Structure on Hierarc
