A presentation on important conferences/events in digital library by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.

1. Digital Library Conferences
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2. JCDL
• The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
• a major internationalforum focusing on digital libraries and
associated technical, practical, and socialissues.
• A joint initiativeof Associated ComputingMachinery (ACM)
and IEEE-CS
• IEEE-CS:Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engineers –
Computer Society

3. History of JCDL
• Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice ofDigitalLibraries
being heldsince 1994.
• ACM had been conducting Conference on DigitalLibraries (DL)
since 1996
• IEEE-CShad beenconducting Conferenceon Advances in Digital
Libraries (ADL)since 1995
• Both conferences wereheld separatelytilltheyear 2000.
• In 2001, both conferenceswere combinedandcalled“Joint
Conference on DigitalLibraries”

4. History of JCDL…
• First held in 2001 by combining ACM DigitalLibraries
Conferenceand IEEE-CS Advances in DigitalLibraries
Conferences.
• Since then,held annually.
• JCDL 2017 was held atthe University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada from 19 to 23 June.
• Theme:“Toscale,Toanalyze,Todiscover”
• Detailsavailable atwww.jcdl.org

5. Past Conferences

6. Objective& Goal of JCDL
• Objective:To promote research and development in thearea
of DigitalLibraries
• Goal:to meet the needs of a large and diverse constituency,
which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, and
policy makers

7. Scope ofthe theme
• JCDL covers all aspects of digital libraries.
• Some of themare:
– new forms of information institutions
– operational information systems with allmanner of digital content
– new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing
digital content
– theoretical models of information media

8. Intended Participants
• Peopleinterestedin allaspectsofDLs such as:
– Infrastructure
– Institutions
– Metadata
– Content
– Services
– Digitalpreservation
– Systemdesign& implementation
– Interface design
– Human-computerinteraction
– evaluationofperformance

9. Main Sponsors
• sigweb: Special Interest Groups of theAssociation for
ComputingMachinery
• ACM: Associated ComputingMachinery Special Interest
Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
• IEEE-CS: IEEE-ComputerSociety
• TCDL: IEEE-CSTechnical Committeeon Digital Libraries

10. Conference Management
• Conferenceis managedby:
– Steering Committee
– Conference Committee
– Program Committee

11. Awards
• VannevarBush Best Paper Award: All papers accepted for
presentation are eligibleand JCDL Steering Committeeselects
thewinner
• Best Student PaperAward: Sponsored by IEEE-CS TCDL.The
award is given to thebest paper presented at JCDL having a
studentas the first author.

12. Awards…
• Best InternationalPaperAward:Sponsored by Universityof
Arizona.TheAward is giventothebest paperthatis presentedat
JCDL,having firstauthor fromoutsidetheUnitedStates.
• Best Poster Award:giventothebest posterthatis presentedat
theJCDLconference.Sponsored by UniversityofArizona.
• Best DemonstrationAward:giventothe bestdemonstration
thatis presentedatthe JCDLconference.

13. ECDL
• European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
for DigitalLibraries
• Started in 1997
• A majorEuropean forumfocusing on digital libraries and
associated technical, practical, and socialissues.
• Detailsavailable atecdlconference.isti.cnr.it/

14. Past Conferences

15. Past Conferences

16. TPDL
• Since 2011, ECDLchangedits nameto TPDL- International
Conferenceon Theory and Practice of DigitalLibraries.
• TPDL2016 (20th) was held at Hannover, Germany from 5-9
September 2016
• TPDL2017 (21st) willbe heldat Thessaloniki, Greece,
September 17-21, 2017
• Conferencewebsite:www.tpdl.eu

17. Past TPDL
Conference No. Year Place Date
15 TPDL 2011 Berlin, Germany 25-29 September
16 TPDL 2012 Paphos, Cyprus 23-27 September
17 TPDL 2013 Valetta, Malta 22-26 September
18 DL 2014* London, UK 8-12 September
19 TPDL 2015 Poznań, Poland 14-18 September
20 TPDL 2016 Hannover, Germany 5-9 September
*DL 2014: A single event that brought together the TPDL and JCDL

18. ECDL Charter
• The Steering Committee:to ensure thecontinuity andthe quality
of ECDL
• The ExecutiveBoard: tosolicitproposals forfuture conferences
andto selecttheproposal in consultationwiththe Steering
Committee
• The Organizing Committee:overallplanning,running and
supervising theconference
• The Program Committee:planning and implementationof
technicalsessions oftheconference

19. Publications
• TPDLProceedings are published under theseries“Lectures
Notes in Computer Science”by Springer-Verlag
• Select papers presented at TPDLare published in the journal
“InternationalJournalof Digital Libraries”
• Bulletinof IEEETechnicalCommittee on DigitalLibraries
publishes excellentpapers presented in TPDLDoctoral
Consortium

20. ICADL
• InternationalConference on AsianDigitalLibraries
• Startedin 1998
• Geographicalscope: Asia-Pacificcountries
• Inspiredfrom JCDLand TPDL
• First ICADLwasheld in Hong Kong
• ICADL2017 (19th ICADL)willbe heldatChulalongkorn
University,Bangkok,Thailand between13-15November
• Detailsavailableaticadl2017.org

21. Past Conferences
Year Venue
1998 Hong Kong
1999 Taipei, China
2000 Seoul, Korea
2001 Bangalore, India
2002 Singapore
2003 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2004 Shanghai, China
2005 Bangkok, Thailand
2006 Kyoto, Japan
2007 Hanoi, Vietnam
2008 Bali, Indonesia
2010 Gold Coast, Australia (with JCDL)

22. Past Conferences
Year Venue
2011 Beijing, China
2012 Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Bangalore, India
2014 Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015 Seoul, Korea
2016 Tsukuba, Japan

23. Participants
• Researchers and professionals from:
– Library and information science
– Computer science
– Social science
– Information systems
– Law and policy
– Education andlearning
– andvarious other academicdisciplines

24. Themes
• Topics generally include:
– digital library technologies and information systems
– content management
– service models for digital libraries
– cost and sustainabilityissuesof DLs

25. Conference Management
• SteeringCommittee:Advisory committeeconsisting of digital
library researchers and leaders in Asia and other parts of the
world
• PresentSteeringCommitteeChair:ShigeoSugimoto,
University of Tsukuba, Japan
• ConferenceCommittee
• Program Committee

26. ICADL 2017
• An InternationalForum has been constituted to conduct
ICADL 2017.
• The forum is calledTheInternationalForumonData,
Information,andKnowledgeforDigitalLives
• The InternationalForum will include 19th ICADL and 8th A-
LIEP (Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information
EducationandPractice).

27. Publications
• The papers accepted for presentationat ICADL are published
in the form of proceedings.
• Proceedings are generally released during the conference.