About us

The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused on research and practice in digital libraries, bridging technical, practical, and social dimensions. JCDL brings together researchers and practitioners from computer science, information science, librarianship, archival and museum studies, and diverse domains including technology, medicine, social sciences, law, and the humanities.

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Analytics for Digital Libraries
Machine learning and deep learning methods for digital libraries
Large language models, generative AI, agent-based systems, and foundation models in information access
Data mining, data analytics, and visualization of library collections
Knowledge graphs, semantic web, ontologies, and graph-based knowledge representation
Natural language processing, information extraction, and semantic search
Predictive analytics, neural retrieval, and data-driven innovation
Search, Retrieval, and Recommendation Systems
Information retrieval, indexing, and ranking for large-scale digital collections
Personalized search, user modeling, and recommender systems
Semantic search, question answering, and conversational interfaces
Navigational and exploratory search, interactive retrieval, query understanding, and multimodal retrieval (text, images, audio, video)
Knowledge discovery, entity-centric retrieval, and cross-lingual retrieval
Human Interaction, Communities, and Collaboration
User experience (UX) design, usability, and accessibility in digital library systems
Collaborative and social information environments, including crowdsourcing and citizen science
Social networks, social tagging, folksonomies, and community curation of content
Human-centered design, interactive visualization, and user behavior analysis
Community building, scholarly communication, and engagement with digital content
Content, Collections, and Digital Humanities
Digitization, transcription, and analysis of cultural heritage and multimedia collections
Digital humanities methods, computational social science, and arts-based informatics
Metadata standards, linked data, semantic annotation, and interoperability in digital collections
Document genres, scholarly content management, and digital exhibits
Multilingual and multicultural digital libraries; inclusion of diverse voices and resources
Domain-specific applications of digital libraries
Infrastructure, Preservation, and Data Management
Digital preservation, long-term archiving, and sustainability of digital collections
Data curation, stewardship, and repository infrastructure
Linked open data, metadata integration, and semantic interoperability
Cloud computing, distributed architectures, and scalable library systems
Open science, open data initiatives, and reproducibility of digital library research
Policy, Ethics, and Societal Impact
Intellectual property, copyright, and licensing issues in digital collections
Privacy, security, and trust in digital library systems and AI applications
Ethics of AI, algorithmic fairness, bias, and accountability in information access
Accessibility, inclusion, and equitable access to knowledge for diverse communities
Social, cultural, and legal implications of digital preservation and access

Call for Papers Description

The following paper categories are welcome: Full Research Papers, Short Research Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Resource submissions, Workshops and Tutorials, Panel proposals.

Committee

Organizing committee

Junhua Ding

General Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Mark V. Albert

General Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Jiangping Chen

General Chair

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Haihua Chen

Program Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Jim Jansen

Program Chair

Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Jiqun Liu

Program Chair

University of Oklahoma, USA

Ting Xiao

Financial Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim

Financial Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Sagnik Ray Choudhury

Local Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Mark Phillips

Local Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Le Yang

Publicity Chair

University of Oregon, USA

Yuhan Zhou

Publicity Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Mat Kelly

Website Chair

Drexel University, USA

Haoxuan Zhang

Website Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Bipasha Banerjee

Proceedings Chair

Virginia Tech, USA

Yinlin Chen

Proceedings Chair

Virginia Tech, USA

Sawood Alam

Proceedings Chair

Internet Archive, USA

Komala Subramanyam Cherukuri

Volunteer Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Lingzi Hong

Workshop/Tutorial Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Jian Wu

Workshop/Tutorial Chair

Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA

Hamed Alhoori

Panel Chair

Northern Illinois University, USA

Ingo Frommholz

Panel Chair

Modul University Vienna, Austria

Yi Bu

Posters/Demos Chairs

Peking University, China

Kwan Hui Lim

Posters/Demos Chairs

Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Yunfei Du

Doctoral Consortium Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Manika Lamba

Doctoral Consortium Chair

University of Oklahoma, USA

Yi Zhang

Doctoral Consortium Chair

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Yang Zhang

Student Support Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Haiming Liu

Student Support Chair

University of Southampton, UK

Xiaozhong Liu

Award Chair

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Preben Hansen

Award Chair

Stockholm University, Sweden

Yuan Li

Award Chair

The University of Alabama, USA

Akhil Pandey Akella

Resources Chair

AllSci CorpDr., USA

Mingwei Tang

Resources Chair

Nanjing Audit University, China

Ana Krahmer

Resources Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Daniel Alemneh

Registration Chair

University of North Texas, USA

Jingye Qu

Registration Chair

Beihua University, China

J. Stephen Downie

Steering Committee Chair

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Speakers

Chengxiang Zhai

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering

ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award Winner (2021), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nicholas Belkin

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science

ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award Winner (2015), Rutgers University

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