JCDL

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Washington, D.C., for the 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012). JCDL is the premiere international conference focused on digital libraries, and associated organizational, practical, social, and technical issues. The event addresses a broad spectrum of topical areas, and is open to all emerging and established educators, industry leaders, researchers, and students working in the field of digital library research and development. This year's conference is hosted by The George Washington University and coorganized with The Library of Congress.

We have chosen a number of keynotes to amplify our conference themes of #preserving #linking #using #sharing. The opening keynote will be given by Jason Scott of textfiles.com. On the second day the keynote will be delivered by Carole Goble of the University of Manchester, and on the third day a closing keynote will be presented by George Dyson, a frequent contributor to The Edge Foundation.

This year, we received 201 submissions (with authors from 32 countries) that went through a rigorous review process with Program Committee members from 22 countries. The result is a program that reflects the high quality of research being conducted in the breadth of disciplines that comprise digital libraries. We accepted 25 of 91 full paper submissions (27%) and 22 of 70 short papers (34%). In addition, there will be 43 posters and 9 demos following the now legendary "minute madness" on the first day of the conference. The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award will be presented at the conference banquet.

JCDL 2012 continues the tradition of supporting digital library developers with four tutorials that cover a range of timely issues including user studies, building digital libraries, and teaching about digital libraries. The program also includes five workshops, which provide a venue for a crosssection of disciplines to explore focused, cutting-edge topics including disciplinary repositories, emergency informatics, and institutional repositories. JCDL 2012 opens with a Doctoral Consortium, a forum where Ph.D. students receive feedback and advice from a committee of internationally recognized researchers and practitioners.