Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering -- DocEng2010, which is being held during September 21--24, 2010 in Manchester in the United Kingdom. DocEng provides researchers in both Academia and Industry a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with peers interested in the various aspects of Document Engineering. This year's symposium continues the tradition of being the premier forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Successful DocEng editions have been held annually around the world: in Munich (2009), Sao Paulo (2008), Winnipeg (2007), Amsterdam (2006), Bristol (2005), Milwaukee (2004), Grenoble (2003), McLean (2002), and Atlanta (2001). DocEng2010 attracted submissions with authors from 28 different countries on six continents. The Chairs accepted 13 full papers (31% acceptance rate). That made this one of the toughest years to get a full paper into the conference. However, from the second round of submissions we accepted 41 short papers and assigned many of these to poster presentation rather than lecture presentation. Thus this is probably the longest proceedings for the DocEng symposium series and we anticipate that the best two poster sessions ever had in the DocEng community will be at this year's conference! In addition, we look forward to two working sessions: one on multimedia authoring, and one on eBooks. DocEng2010 is fortunate to have been able to feature an excellent keynote presentation by Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager at the British Library, on "Exploring the World's Knowledge in the Digital Age."