Call for Research Track

Overview

TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", embracing the whole spectrum of the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.

Topics

Topics in 2025 include but are not limited to, theories, models, standards, tools, and applications on the following themes:

  • Publishing Science
    • FAIR Data and Software
    • Data Lifecycle Management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse)
    • Research Objects
    • Nanopublications
    • Supporting Science Reproducibility
    • Metadata Standards
    • Research Data Management
    • Research Output Management
  • Information Management Science
    • Data Management and Discovery
    • Data Search and Discovery in Digital Libraries
    • Digital Preservation and Curation
    • Data Provenance and Documentation
    • Linked Data and Open Data Platforms
    • Data Repositories and Archives
    • Data Citation and Credit Distribution
    • Data Stewardship and Governance
    • Data Integration and Harmonization
  • Monitoring and Assessment of Science
    • Science of Science Studies
    • Scientometrics and Bibliometrics
    • Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graphs
    • Impact Analysis in Scientific Research
  • Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
    • AI and Machine Learning Applications in Digital Libraries
    • Knowledge Bases and Organizational Systems
    • Entity Extraction and Semantic Linking
    • Ontology Development and Usage
    • Data as Collections
  • Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
    • Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation
    • Computational Linguistics and Digital Terminology
    • Digital Methods in History and Archaeology
    • Knowledge Organization in the Humanities
    • Digital Interfaces for Humanities Research
    • Digital Repatriation
    • Indigenous Data, Governance, and Sovereignty
  • Human-Computer Interaction in Digital Libraries
    • Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces
    • User Experience and Participation in Digital Libraries
    • Information Visualization and Analytics
    • Interaction Design for Diverse User Groups
  • Information Retrieval
    • Advanced Search Algorithms and Techniques
    • Semantic Search and Indexing
    • User-Centric Information Retrieval Design
    • Information Retrieval System Evaluation
    • Multimodal and Multilingual Information Access
    • Information Behavior and Interaction in Digital Libraries
  • Document Analysis and Recognition
    • Document Image Analysis and Recognition for Digital Libraries
    • Physical and Logical Layout Analysis
    • Historical Document Analysis
    • Document Semantics Extraction
    • Natural Language Processing for Document Analysis

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59 (11:59 pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone on the date specified.

  • Submission deadline for full papers: 30 April 2025
  • Notification of acceptance for full papers: 4 June 2025
  • Camera-ready submission: 30 June 2025

Contribution Types

Research Papers (15 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality, original research of relevance to the TPDL community. Submissions should have a clear focus on or perspective to Digital Libraries and detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and presented as long conference talks.

Practitioner Papers (15 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality applied work of relevance to the TPDL community. Submissions should focus on results of direct relevance to practitioners and institutions in the TPDL community. Methods, tools, and techniques should be detailed sufficiently to enable application by other institutions. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and presented as long conference talks.

Awards

Springer will sponsor the TPDL 2025 Best Paper Award, Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award, Best Demonstration and Best Short Paper, which will be announced during the TPDL Banquet.

Submission Guidelines

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented as long conference talks. All submissions should detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse. For submission papers must be in the Springer LNCS style, see: Springer LNCS guidelines. Every paper needs to be submitted in PDF format using the CMT online submission system. Failure to comply with the submission guidelines will lead to direct rejection without review.

Program Chairs

  • Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
  • Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University, Sweden
  • Yannis Manolopoulos, Academia Europaea, Greece