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TPDL 2026 – 30th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

September 26, 2025 by 0 Comments

Author preprints of the full papers accepted at TPDL 2026, the 30th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Faro, Portugal, 22–25 September 2026. Papers appear in the order of the conference program.

16 full papers

Session 1

Data Management Plans and FAIR Assessment

Wednesday 23 September, 11:15–12:45 · Auditorium 1.5

Session 2

Reproducibility and Provenance in Scholarly Communication

Wednesday 23 September, 11:15–12:45 · Auditorium 1.4

Session 3

Studying the Research Landscape: Scientometrics and Meta-Research

Wednesday 23 September, 14:15–15:45 · Auditorium 1.5

Session 4

Metadata Quality and Scholarly Infrastructures

Wednesday 23 September, 14:15–15:45 · Auditorium 1.4

Session 5

Search and Recommendation in Academic Digital Libraries

Thursday 24 September, 11:00–12:30 · Auditorium 1.5

Session 6

LLMs and Multimodal Models for Knowledge Discovery

Thursday 24 September, 11:00–12:30 · Auditorium 1.4

Session 7

Structuring Historical Collections

Friday 25 September, 11:00–12:30 · Auditorium 1.5

Session 8

AI, Human Judgement, and Public Information Practices

Friday 25 September, 11:00–12:30 · Auditorium 1.4

These files are author preprints posted for early access. Please cite the version of record once the proceedings are published.

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TPDL 2025 – 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

October 24, 2024 by 0 Comments

TPDL 2025 – 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries,  Tampere, Finland, from 23 to 26 September 2025
TPDL 2025 Website

Best paper award 2025

Jiro Kikkawa, Masao Takaku. How Retracted Article Persists on YouTube. Pages 127-144

Best runner-up paper award 2025

Ornella Irrera, Matteo Lissandrini, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Gianmaria Silvello. Heterogeneous Graph Representation for Dataset Link Prediction on Dynamic and Sparse Scholarly Graphs. Pages 452-469

Proceedings

Wolf-Tilo Balke, Koraljka Golub, Yannis Manolopoulos, Kostas Stefanidis, Zheying Zhang. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, Tampere, Finland, September 23–26, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science16097. ISBN: 978-3-032-05409-8

TPDL 2025 Proceedings
TPDL 2025 Proceedings

 

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Maristella Agosti is winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award

October 31, 2017 by 0 Comments
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Maristella Agosti, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua and one of the key persons in the development of the Digital Libraries field, is winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award. The Tony Kent Strix Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval in its widest sense. The 2017 Annual Lecture was given by Maristella Agosti, Winner of the Award in 2016. The Annual Lecture series is sponsored by Google. You can find her presentation here.

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Journal article on the development of DLs

October 31, 2017 by 0 Comments

Recently, an interesting article on the development of the field of digital libraries by two key persons of our community was published on LIBER Quarterly. LQ is an open access journal and you may find the article at:

Thanos, C. & Casarosa, V., (2017). The key role of the DELOS Network of Excellence in establishing Digital Libraries as a research field in Europe. LIBER Quarterly. 26(4), pp.296–307. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10165

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Call for Bids to host the TPDL Conference

August 11, 2016 by 0 Comments
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The Steering Committee of the TPDL – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES, invites persons and organizations to submit a bid for hosting the conference in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

TPDL has been the leading scientific forum on digital libraries since 1997. Until 2011 the conference was named European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL). Information about the previous ECDL/TPDL conferences can be found at http://www.tpdl.eu/?cat=3.

The conference includes a variety of events in order to produce a rich and stimulating programme. Typically, a Conference includes (but is not necessarily limited to): (i) Tutorials, (ii) Workshops, (iii) Doctoral Consortium, (iv) Research papers, (v) Panel discussions, (vi) Posters & Demonstrations, (vii) Other co-located events, such as project meetings, and (viii) Social Programme.

Past conferences attracted 200-300 participants, and were usually held in the first weeks of September. TPDL has a long established cooperation with Springer-Verlag and its proceedings are being published in the frame of Lecture Notes on Computer Science, being indexed by the most important scientific databases and aggregators.

PROCESS STEPS

  • (OPTIONAL) Informal expressions of interest are encouraged at any moment, providing as many details as possible, plus key contacts. Feedback and following assistance will be provided. Expressions sent until the September 5th or contacts in person during the forthcoming TPDL 2016 in Hanover, Germany on September 5-9, 2016 are strongly encouraged!!!
  • (MANDATORY) Formal bids must be submitted according to the guidelines at http://www.tpdl.eu/?page_id=7

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Bid submission deadline: November 25, 2016
  • Feedback to bidders and discussion: December 19, 2016
  • Notification on bid selection: January 30, 2017

SUBMISSIONS

Expressions of interest and bids must be sent by email to the Executive Board of the Steering Committee (Jose Borbinha, Chair; George Buchanan, Deputy Chair, Giannis Tsakonas, Secretary), to the following addresses: jlb@tecnico.ulisboa.pt; George.Buchanan.1@city.ac.uk; john@lis.upatras.gr.