JCDL 2020 Call for Submission

[jcdl2020]

General Submission Instructions

Speedier Innovation. Sustainable Development. Societal Transformation

The speed with which emerging technologies are innovated seems to be accelerating. Digital Library (DL) plays a key role as tools for lessening digital divides and providing equal access. The conference theme is Speedier Innovation | Sustainable Development | Societal Transformation. We invite participants to discuss innovation in DL theory and practice, construction of sustainable ecosystems that help people create knowledge, and the promotion of societal transformation in a time of rapid change.

Communities Welcomed

JCDL welcomes interesting submissions ranging across theories, systems, services, and applications. We invite those managing, operating, developing, curating, evaluating, or utilizing digital libraries broadly defined, covering academic or public institutions, and including archives, museums, and social networks.

We seek contributions from computer, information or social sciences. Multiple tracks and sessions will ensure tailoring to researchers, practitioners, and diverse communities including:

• data science/analytics
• data curation/stewardship
• information behavior
• information organization
• information retrieval
• information science
• information service
• human-computer interaction
• hypertext (and Web/network science)
• multimedia
• publishing, preservation
• digital humanities
• machine-learning/AI
• heritage/culture
• health/medicine
• policy
• law
• privacy/intellectual property information science

In addition to the topics indicated above, the following are some of the many topics that will be considered relevant, as long as connections are made to digital libraries:

• collaborative and participatory information environments
• crowdsourcing and human computation
• cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments
• document genres
• extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections
• information and knowledge systems
• information visualization
• infrastructure and service design
• knowledge discovery
• knowledge service
• smart data and its applications
• performance evaluation
• personal digital information management
• scientific data management
• social media, architecture, and applications
• social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information
• user-behavior and modeling
• user communities and user research multimedia