Call for Short Papers

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
  • Information Management Science
  • Monitoring and Assessment of Science
  • Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
  • Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
  • Human-Computer Interaction in Digital Libraries
  • Information Retrieval
  • Document Analysis and Recognition

Important Dates

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

  • Short paper submission deadline: June 12, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance for short papers: July 13, 2025
  • Camera-ready submission: July 27, 2025

Contribution Types

Short Papers (8 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality, original research or applications that are of relevance to the TPDL community. Submissions should present more focused or smaller studies, for example, preliminary results, ongoing work, or late-breaking results. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Short papers are presented as short conference talks.

Awards

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

Submission Guidelines

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented as short 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. Accepted short papers are published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

Every paper must be submitted in PDF format using the CMT online submission system after selecting the TPDL2025 - Short Papers Track: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TPDL2025.

Failure to comply with the submission guidelines will lead to direct rejection without review.

Program Chairs

  • Marcos Andre Goncalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece