TOPICS

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

AI, Data Science, and Analytics

Information retrieval and access technologies to digital collections
Data mining and information extraction
AI for digital libraries
Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
Knowledge discovery from digital libraries content
Recommender systems for digital libraries content
Data science techniques
Semantic Web, linked data, and metadata technologies
Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
Pretrained language models and digital libraries
Generating prompts for large language models
Detecting content created by generative AI
IoT and digital libraries
Visualization, user interface, and user experience

Cultural Heritage, Society & Policy

Cultural heritage access and analysis
Dealing with history, literature, music in digital libraries
Cultural heritage and museum informatics
Collaborations among archives, libraries, and museums
Digital cultural memory initiatives
Memory organizations in the digital space
Participatory cultural heritage
Community Informatics
Intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation
Intellectual property issues
Policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries
Information policies
Misinformation and disinformation
Impact of generative AI on digital library policy and practice
Societal and cultural issues in knowledge, information, and data
User engagement with digital cultural heritage in local communities New
User needs in multicultural and multilingual information environments

User Studies and Information Behavior

Information seeking and search behavior in digital environments
Information behavior analysis
User experience (UX) design and evaluation of digital library systems
User needs, expectations, and satisfaction in digital libraries
User studies on AI-powered search and recommender systems
Trust, transparency, and explainability of AI from users’ perspectives
AI literacy and information literacy in the age of generative AI
User behavior with generative AI tools for scholarly research
Cross-lingual information seeking behavior in Asia-Pacific contexts
Information seeking and misinformation/disinformation detection by users
Accessibility and inclusive design for diverse user groups
Student and researcher information behavior in digital scholarship
Health information seeking behavior and use of AI health tools
Mobile-first UX in accessing digital collections

Digital library Infrastructure & Services

Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
Applications and quality assurance of digital libraries
Research data and open access
Curation and preservation technologies in digital libraries
Information organization support
Novel applications for digital libraries
Social networking and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries
Personal information management and personal digital libraries
Information service technologies in digital libraries
Digital library/digital archive infrastructures
Digital preservation and digital curation
Research data infrastructures, management and use
Open data initiatives and utilization

Scholarly Communication & Open Science

Access and usage of Web Archives
Social, legal, ethical, financial issues of Web Archives
Collection development and discovery
Higher education uses of digital collections
Digital library education and digital literacy
Digital scholarship and services
Crowdsourcing and user-generated content
Information work and digital libraries
Participatory cultures and digital libraries
Education with digital libraries
Generative AI and the digital library user experience
Researcher behavior in finding, using, and sharing research data New
User perception and adoption of Open Access resources New
Citation behavior and information use patterns in the AI era

Sustainable Computing

Green AI and energy-efficient computing
Green data centers and cloud computing
Internet of Things (IoT) and sustainable systems
Hardware and system design for sustainability
Software engineering for sustainability
Sustainable computing metrics and assessment
Smart cities and sustainable digital transformation
Circular economy and IT sustainability
AI for sustainability (AI for Good)
Policy, ethics, and governance in sustainable computing
Green AI adoption in developing countries
Sustainable computing framework for AI literacy in education