Overview

TPDL is an international forum focused on Digital Libraries, Document Analysis/Recognition, and Information Retrieval and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, embracing the whole spectrum of the GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, and Museum) community; information access and operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.

Topics

Topics in 2025 include but are not limited to, theories, models, standards, tools, and applications on the following themes:
Publishing Science
Information Management Science
Monitoring and Assessment of Science
Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
AI and Machine Learning Applications in Digital Libraries
Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Human-Computer Interaction in Digital Libraries
Information Retrieval
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in the context of Digital Libraries
Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries
Document Analysis and Recognition

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59 (11:59 pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone on the date specified.
Submission deadline for full papers: 30 April 2025
Notification of acceptance for full papers: 4 June 2025
Camera-ready submission: 30 June 2025

Contribution Types
Research Papers (15 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality, original research of relevance to the TPDL community. Submissions should have a clear focus on or perspective to Digital Libraries and detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and presented as long conference talks.
Practitioner Papers (15 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality applied work of relevance to the TPDL community. Submissions should focus on results of direct relevance to practitioners and institutions in the TPDL community. Methods, tools, and techniques should be detailed sufficiently to enable application by other institutions. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and presented as long conference talks.

Awards
Springer will sponsor the TPDL 2025 Best Paper Award, Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award, Best Demonstration and Best Short Paper, which will be announced during the TPDL Banquet.

Submission Guidelines
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented as long conference talks. All submissions should detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse. For submission papers must be in the Springer LNCS style, see: Springer LNCS guidelines. Every paper needs to be submitted in PDF format using the CMT online submission system after selecting the TPDL2025 - Full Papers Track: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TPDL2025. Failure to comply with the submission guidelines will lead to direct rejection without review.

Program Chairs
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Yannis Manolopoulos, Academia Europaea, Greece