International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of the conference, will be organized by University of Malta and it will be held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

Aims & Scope

Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural, business and governmental activities. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as conceptual models, added value infrastructures, software tools, standards and services.
The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is the epicenter of the discussions of the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.
TPDL 2013, under the general theme "Sharing meaningful information", invites submissions for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations.
Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The authors of the best research papers submitted to TPDL2013 will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Topics

General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross:

Foundations

• Information models
• Digital library conceptual models and formal issues
• Digital library 2.0
• Digital library education curricula
• Economic and legal aspects (e.g. rights management) landscape for digital libraries
• Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
• Information policies
• Studies of human factors in networked information
• Scholarly primitives
• Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities
• User behavior analysis and modeling
• Social-technical perspectives of digital information

Infrastructures

• Digital library architectures
• Cloud and grid deployments
• Federation of repositories
• Collaborative and participatory information environments
• Data storage and indexing
• Big data management
• e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures
• Semi structured data
• Semantic web issues in digital libraries
• Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
• Linked Data and its applications

Content

• Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats)
• Interoperability and Information integration
• Digital Curation and related workflows
• Preservation, authenticity and provenance
• Web archiving
• Social media and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.)
• Crowdsourcing
• 3D models indexing and retrieval
• Authority management issues

Services

• Information Retrieval and browsing
• Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Personalization in digital libraries
• Context awareness in information access
• Semantic aware services
• Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g. mobile devices
• Visualization of large-scale information environments
• Evaluation of online information environments
• Quality metrics
• Interfaces to digital libraries
• Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
• Social networks analysis and virtual organizations
• Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication

  Mashups of resources

Important Dates

• Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013
• Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013
• Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013
• End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013
• Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013

Formatting Instructions

Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage.

Submission

Full papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission page (TBA).

According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper.