In 2014 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London, UK.

The combined DL conference will be the major international scientific forum on digital libraries for 2014, bringing together researchers and developers as well as content providers and users. The focus of the joint conference is on on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues.

Important dates

Full and short papers due: March 16, 2014, 11.59pm HAST
Posters, Panels, and Demonstrations due: March 23, 2014, 11.59pm HAST
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2014
Camera ready version due: June 8, 2014

Workshop, Tutorial, and Panel submissions due: March 2, 2014, 11.59pm HAST
Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2014

Doctoral Consortium submissions due: June 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2014

End of early registration: TBA
Conference dates: September 8 - 12, 2014
Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium date: September 8, 2014
Workshop dates: September 11 - 12, 2014

Conference Scope

The themes of the 2014 TPDL/JCDL combined conference will follow the theme of ‘preserving the past - finding the future’. Digital collections face two major challenges: organising and conserving material across time, and enabling users to discover the material they need in increasingly large collections. In terms of ‘preserving the past’, example issues include the demands of digitisation of physical materials, the digital preservation of material so it remains accessible, and the systematic classification and indexation of large collections across social and technological change.

In contrast, when ‘finding the future’, sophisticated discovery tools, effective library policies, support for linked data, and supporting the user’s interpretation and analysis of content are examples of the key challenges that face the communities of DL practitioners and researchers.

The conference welcomes internationally leading insights into both research problems and practical complexities. Contributions from digital humanities, digital preservation, hypertext and information retrieval researchers are as much a vital part of the digital library community’s interests as core DL research, and submissions on these and other related topics are strongly encouraged.
Conference Topics
General areas of interest for DL 2014 include but are not limited to:

Collaborative and participatory information environments
Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments
Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
Digital library architectures
Digital library and Web Science curriculum development
Digital library conceptual models and formal issues
Distributed information systems
Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections
Evaluation of online information environments
Impact and evaluation of digital libraries and information in education
Information and knowledge systems
Information policy and copyright law
Information Retrieval and browsing
Information visualization
Interfaces to information for novices and experts
Interoperability and Information integration
Linked data and its applications
Personal digital information management
Retrieval and browsing
Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication
Semantic web issues in digital libraries
Social media, architecture, and applications
Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information
Social-technical perspectives of digital information
Studies of human factors in networked information
Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
User behavior and modeling
Visualization of large-scale information environments
Web archiving and preservation