TPDL 2027 - The 31st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

https://tpdl2027.dei.unipd.it/

27-29 September, 2027, Venice, Italy

TPDL 2027 will take place on San Servolo Island in Venice, Italy, organised by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Padua, co-located with ADBIS 2027. Set in the Venetian lagoon, the venue offers an inspiring setting for discussing digital libraries in a city with a rich history of cultural heritage, scholarship, and publishing.

TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference covers the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields ranging from the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community to Information and Computer Sciences. In 2027, two complementary tracks, one oriented towards digital humanities and cultural heritage, the other towards computer science, welcome contributions across these fields.

TPDL welcomes submissions from researchers, practitioners, and professionals working in digital libraries, data infrastructures, cultural heritage, scholarly communication, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and related fields. Contributions from interdisciplinary teams and practitioners are particularly encouraged, including work that combines the perspectives of the two tracks.

Important Dates

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

Workshop proposal deadline: 20 February 2027

Abstract registration deadline: 2 April 2027

Submission deadline: 9 April 2027

Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2027

Camera-ready submission: July, 2027

TPDL 2027 features two distinct tracks:

Track 1: Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries: Methods, Systems, and Applications

This track explores the core computer science principles, methods, and technologies underpinning digital libraries. It covers advances in information retrieval, data management, and artificial intelligence, alongside system architectures for large-scale digital collections and practical applications in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage preservation.

Track 2: Digital Humanities and Digital Libraries: Collections, Methods, and Scholarship

This track explores the intersection of digital libraries and digital humanities: how digital collections enable new ways to study, interpret, and connect cultural sources. It welcomes work on humanities research methods, scholarly editions and annotations, and the design of digital library services that support research, collaboration, and access to cultural heritage.

Topics

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Topics in 2027 include, but are not limited to, theories, models, standards, tools, and applications on the following themes:

Information Management

-- FAIR Data and Software

-- Data Lifecycle Management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse)

-- Research Objects: FAIR Digital Objects (FDO), RO-Crate

-- Reproducibility

-- Digital Preservation and Curation

-- Data Integration and Harmonization, Metadata Standards

-- Data Provenance and Documentation

-- Linked Data and Open Data Platforms

-- Data Stewardship and Governance

-- Federated Repositories and Data Spaces

Monitoring and Assessment of Science

-- Science of Science Studies

-- Scientometrics and Bibliometrics

-- Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graphs

-- Data Citation and Credit Distribution

-- AI for the Assessment of Science

Knowledge Creation and Dissemination

-- AI and Machine Learning Applications in Digital Libraries

-- Explainable, Responsible, and Trustworthy AI for Digital Libraries

-- Knowledge Organization: Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Thesauri

-- Nanopublications

-- Entity Extraction and Semantic Linking

Digital Libraries as Enablers of Science across Disciplines

-- User Interface Design, Evaluation, and Accessibility

-- User Experience and Participation in Digital Libraries

-- Information Visualisation and Analytics

-- Digital Cultural Heritage Collections: Access and Preservation

-- Digital Humanities and Scholarly Practices

-- Digital Libraries for Social Sciences

-- Digital Libraries for Natural and Life Sciences

-- Digital Libraries for Technical and Engineering Sciences

-- Open Educational Resources

-- Music, Audiovisual, and 3D Collections

-- Citizen Science and Participatory Curation

Societal Issues in Digital Libraries

-- Bias in metadata or knowledge organization systems

-- Bias in information access mechanisms

-- Trustworthiness of digital information

-- Business models for Open Access

-- Indigenous Data, Governance, and Sovereignty

-- Ethical Adoption and Use of AI

Information Retrieval

-- Advanced Search Algorithms and Techniques

-- Data Search and Discovery

-- Semantic Search and Indexing

-- Recommender Systems

-- Computational Linguistics

-- User-Centric Information Retrieval Design

-- Information Retrieval System Evaluation

-- Multimodal and Multilingual Information Access

-- Information Behavior and Interaction

-- Benchmarking for Digital Libraries

-- Multimodal Information Extraction

Document Analysis and Recognition

-- Physical and Logical Layout Analysis

-- Historical Document Analysis

-- Document Semantics Extraction

-- Natural Language Processing for Document Analysis

Submissions may address multiple themes; interdisciplinary and cross-cutting contributions are particularly encouraged.

Contribution Types

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*Full Papers (15 pages + unlimited references), presenting high-quality, original research and applied work of relevance to the TPDL community.

*Short and Vision Papers (8 pages + unlimited references) presenting high-quality, original research, innovative applications, or forward-looking ideas and perspectives that are relevant to the TPDL community.

*Demonstration Papers (6 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality, original research, applications or tools that are of relevance to the TPDL community.

*Doctoral Consortium Papers (4 pages + unlimited references), presenting ongoing or planned doctoral research relevant to the TPDL community, particularly suitable for early- and mid-stage PhD students seeking feedback and mentoring.

Submission Guidelines

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All submissions should detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse where applicable. Papers must be in the Springer style (an Overleaf LaTeX template https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-nature-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj is available).

Every paper must be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair online submission system (link TBA soon).

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Submissions that do not comply with the submission guidelines may be rejected without review.

Publication

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Details will be announced soon.