Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

All submissions must be in English, in PDF format. Papers should follow Springer Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). All papers are to be submitted via the conference’s EasyChair submission system 

List of Topics

We invite submissions on diverse topics related to digital libraries and related fields including (but not limited to):

Information Technologies, Data Science & Applications

• Information retrieval and access technologies to digital collections
• Data mining and information extraction
• IoT and digital libraries
• AI for digital libraries
• Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
• Knowledge discovery from digital libraries content
• Recommender systems for digital libraries content
• Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
• Data science techniques
• Semantic Web, linked data, and metadata technologies
• Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
• Applications and quality assurance of digital libraries
• Research data and open access
• Visualization, user interface, and user experience
• Social networking and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries
• Personal information management and personal digital libraries
• Information service technologies in digital libraries
• Bibliometrics and scholarly communication in digital libraries
• Curation and preservation technologies in digital libraries
• Information organization support
• Novel applications for digital libraries
• Pretrained language models and digital libraries
• Generating prompts for large language models
• Detecting content created by generative AI

Cultural Information, Digital Humanities & Scholarly Data Analysis

• Cultural heritage access and analysis
• Dealing with history, literature, music in digital libraries
• Scholarly data analysis
• Scientometrics
• Access and usage of Web Archives
• Community Informatics
• Cultural heritage and museum informatics
• Collaborations among archives, libraries, and museums
• Collection development and discovery
• Digital cultural memory initiatives
• Memory organizations in the digital space
• Digital preservation and digital curation
• Digital library/digital archive infrastructures
• Digital library education and digital literacy
• Higher education uses of digital collections
• Research data infrastructures, management and use
• Information policies
• Participatory cultural heritage

social Informatics and Socio-technological Issues in Digital Libraries

• Data analytics for social networks
• Socio-technical aspects of digital libraries
• Sustainability of digital libraries
• Research methods for digital libraries during social isolation times
• Roles of digital libraries for isolated societies
• Digital libraries for learning, collaboration, and organization in the networked environment
• Societal and cultural issues in knowledge, information, and data
• Intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation
• Intellectual property issues
• Policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries
• Social, legal, ethical, financial issues of Web Archives
• Social policy issues on digital libraries
• Information behavior analysis
• Social sciences and digital libraries
• Crowdsourcing and user-generated content
• Information work and digital libraries
• Information economics and digital libraries
• Education with digital libraries
• Participatory cultures and digital libraries
• Digital scholarship and services
• Open data initiatives and utilization
• Misinformation and disinformation
• Impact of generative AI on digital library policy and practice
• Generative AI and the digital library user experience

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

HOST: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University

CO-HOST:

– Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus

– College of Computing Khon Kaen University– University of Tsukuba