Topics of Interest

JCDL 2025 topics include, but are not limited to:

    Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Analytics for Digital Libraries:
        Machine learning and deep learning methods for digital libraries
        Large language models, generative AI, agent-based systems, and foundation models in information access
        Data mining, data analytics, and visualization of library collections
        Knowledge graphs, semantic web, ontologies, and graph-based knowledge representation
        Natural language processing, information extraction, and semantic search
        Predictive analytics, neural retrieval, and data-driven innovation
    Search, Retrieval, and Recommendation Systems:
        Information retrieval, indexing, and ranking for large-scale digital collections
        Personalized search, user modeling, and recommender systems
        Semantic search, question answering, and conversational interfaces
        Navigational and exploratory search, interactive retrieval, query understanding, and multimodal retrieval (text, images, audio, video)
        Knowledge discovery, entity-centric retrieval, and cross-lingual retrieval
    Human Interaction, Communities, and Collaboration:
        User experience (UX) design, usability, and accessibility in digital library systems
        Collaborative and social information environments, including crowdsourcing and citizen science
        Social networks, social tagging, folksonomies, and community curation of content
        Human-centered design, interactive visualization, and user behavior analysis
        Community building, scholarly communication, and engagement with digital content
    Content, Collections, and Digital Humanities:
        Digitization, transcription, and analysis of cultural heritage and multimedia collections
        Digital humanities methods, computational social science, and arts-based informatics
        Metadata standards, linked data, semantic annotation, and interoperability in digital collections
        Document genres, scholarly content management, and digital exhibits
        Multilingual and multicultural digital libraries; inclusion of diverse voices and resources
        Domain-specific applications of digital libraries
    Infrastructure, Preservation, and Data Management:
        Digital preservation, long-term archiving, and sustainability of digital collections
        Data curation, stewardship, and repository infrastructure
        Linked open data, metadata integration, and semantic interoperability
        Cloud computing, distributed architectures, and scalable library systems
        Open science, open data initiatives, and reproducibility of digital library research
    Policy, Ethics, and Societal Impact:
        Intellectual property, copyright, and licensing issues in digital collections
        Privacy, security, and trust in digital library systems and AI applications
        Ethics of AI, algorithmic fairness, bias, and accountability in information access
        Accessibility, inclusion, and equitable access to knowledge for diverse communities
        Social, cultural, and legal implications of digital preservation and access