Joint Conference On Digital Libraries Research Articles

ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries 2020 in Wuhan virtually

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL 2020 was hosted jointly by School of Information Management at Wuhan University and School of Public Administration at Northwest University on August 1 - 5, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The General Chairs were Professors Dan Wu, Ruhua Huang and Gary Marchionini, and the Program Chairs were Professors Daqing He, Preben Hansen, and Sally Jo Cunningham. This newsletter article briefly describes the conference organization, the community participation, and most importantly the adaption to virtual conference under COVID-19 pandemic.

Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Computer Science at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@odu.edu. Repository Citation Nelson, Michael L., Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL) (2003). Computer Science Faculty Publications. Paper 32. http://digitalcommons.odu.edu/computerscience_fac_pubs/32

An exploration of the digital library evaluation literature based on an ontological representation

Evaluation is a vital research area in the digital library domain, demonstrating a growing literature in conference and journal articles. We explore the directions and the evolution of evaluation research for the period 2001–2011 by studying the evaluation initiatives presented at 2 main conferences of the digital library domain, namely the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE) Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), and the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL; since 2011 renamed to the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries [TPDL]). The literature is annotated using a domain ontology, named DiLEO, which defines explicitly the main concepts of the digital library evaluation domain and their correlations. The ontology instances constitute a semantic network that enables the uniform and formal representation of the critical evaluation constructs in both conferences, untangles their associations, and supports the study of their evolution. We discuss interesting patterns in the evaluation practices as well as in the research foci of the 2 venues, and outline current research trends and areas for further research.

Joint conference on digital libraries (JCDL) 2011

Welcome to this special issue of the International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL) to feature the winners and the runners-up in the Vannevar Bush best paper, and the best student paper of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2011 held in Ottawa, Canada, in June 2011. The Editors in Chief of IJDL extended an invitation to the winners and runners-up to submit extended versions of their JCDL 2011 papers. This special issue contains those papers. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international annual forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The 2011 conference theme was ”Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data”, in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship. The conference featured 28 full and 29 short technical papers that had gone through a rigorous peer review along with posters, tutorials, demonstrations and workshops. The JCDL program committee nominates papers they consider highlight work of significance in the field, and those are then reviewed again by an awards sub-committee. The invited authors submitted new versions of their papers that expanded upon the description of their work through providing more detail on their approaches and results. In each case, the papers provide more depth on the technical approach, and more detail on their results. The submissions went through the IJDL review process before acceptance to

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to host two international conferences in June, 2008

The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will play host to two international conferences in June 2008. This former industrial Mecca will turn truly high-tech when JCDL 2008 and Hypertext 2008 take place! The conferences are being hosted by the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. JCDL (the Joint Digital Libraries Conference) will take place June 16--20, 2008. It is immediately followed by Hypertext 2008 on June 19--21, 2008. Together, the conferences will welcome more than 450 scholars, industry professionals, students, and researchers to Pittsburgh. It is not the first time that these two conferences have been presented together. Following our conference themes of "linking people and places" and "Bridging Culture, Bridging Technology," it is of interest to note that the ACM Hypertext and Digital Libraries conferences were co-located in Pittsburgh in 1998. This was extremely appropriate as the Hypertext Conference examines one of the core technologies that support the development and management of digital libraries. Soon after 1998, the Digital Libraries Conference evolved into the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), a stand-alone event. It is only fitting that Hypertext is again linked to JCDL in Pittsburgh ten years later.

Mapping the bid behavior of conference referees

The peer-review process, in its present form, has been repeatedly criticized. Of the many critiques ranging from publication delays to referee bias, this paper will focus specifically on the issue of how submitted manuscripts are distributed to qualified referees. Unqualified referees, without the proper knowledge of a manuscript’s domain, may reject a perfectly valid study or potentially more damaging, unknowingly accept a faulty or fraudulent result. In this paper, referee competence is analyzed with respect to referee bid data collected from the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). The analysis of the referee bid behavior provides a validation of the intuition that referees are bidding on conference submissions with regards to the subject domain of the submission. Unfortunately, this relationship is not strong and therefore suggests that there may potentially exists other factors beyond subject domain that may be influencing referees to bid for particular submissions.

Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community

The field of digital libraries (DLs) coalesced in 1994: the first digital library conferences were held that year, awareness of the World Wide Web was accelerating, and the National Science Foundation awarded $24 Million (U.S.) for the Digital Library Initiative (DLI). In this paper we examine the state of the DL domain after a decade of activity by applying social network analysis to the co-authorship network of the past ACM, IEEE, and joint ACM/IEEE digital library conferences. We base our analysis on a common binary undirectional network model to represent the co-authorship network, and from it we extract several established network measures. We also introduce a weighted directional network model to represent the co-authorship network, for which we define $AuthorRank$ as an indicator of the impact of an individual author in the network. The results are validated against conference program committee members in the same period. The results show clear advantages of PageRank and AuthorRank over degree, closeness and betweenness centrality metrics. We also investigate the amount and nature of international participation in Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).

Report on the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

Report on the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

Joint conference on digital libraries (JCDL) 2004: Global reach and diverse impact

Joint conference on digital libraries (JCDL) 2004: Global reach and diverse impact

Digital libraries across cultures

Digital libraries (DL) are increasingly broader in scope and reach, spanning geographical and cultural boundaries. Yet little research is available on the influence of culture as it pertains to the design and use of digital libraries. To address these considerations, a workshop was organized at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2003, the aim of which was to bring together researchers and practitioners (twelve participants altogether) from a variety of disciplines to present current projects and contribute to a collaborative research agenda. The goals of the workshop were: 1) to increase awareness about the area of cross-cultural usability in the digital library community; 2) to identify new tools, techniques and methodologies for cross-cultural study of user behavior in DLs and international user interface design; 3) to provide a forum for generating new research directions and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)