Topics of interest, as they relate to digital libraries, include, but are not limited to:

Users and Interactions

• Collaborative and participatory information environments
• Crowdsourcing and human computation
• Human-information Interaction
• Information visualization
• Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information
• Social media, community building, and applications
• User behavior and modeling

Search and Recommendation
	
• AI / Machine Learning/ Data mining for DLs
• Dataset retrieval
• Information and knowledge systems
• Information retrieval
• Knowledge discovery
• Natural language processing
• Navigational and exploratory search
• Personalization and contextualization
  
Digital Libraries in Practice

• Digital archiving and preservation
• Digital humanities and heritage
• Knowledge organization systems in practice
• Personal digital information management
• Performance evaluation
• Policy and law
• Privacy and Intellectual property
• Scientific data management
	
Content and Structures

• Data curation and stewardship
• Document genres
• Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections
• Infrastructure and service design
• Linked data and its applications
• Research data management
• Web and network science