The International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), which started in Hong Kong in 1998 and over the years traveled to many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, is a major digital library conference. Along with JCDL and TPDL, ICADL is held annually as one of the three top venues for connecting digital library, computer science, and library and information science communities. This year, ICADL 2024 will be held from December 4th to 6th, 2024 at the Monash Malaysia campus in Sunway, Malaysia as an onsite face-to-face conference; however, for those who cannot attend, ICADL 2024 will allow them to present their papers online and join sessions.

ICADL 2024 will be co-located with the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific chapter of iSchools (AP-iSchools; https://ischools.org/), the AP iConference. ICADL 2024 will provide an excellent international forum for researchers from not only Asia-Pacific regions but also all over the world to meet people with different backgrounds but common research interests to exchange their cutting-edge knowledge, experience and practices in various relevant issues in digital libraries, Library and Information Science (LIS), and other related fields.

The theme for ICADL 2024 is “Sustainability and Empowerment”. Implementations of digital libraries and digital archives are no longer novelties, but familiar and accepted components of the information landscape providing a rich environment for evaluation of their actual and potential impact. This conference welcomes papers that explore the contribution that digital libraries and archives make to the sustainability and empowerment of communities, organisations and individuals, including the risks and barriers to achieving sustainability and empowerment goals. 

Proceedings of ICADL 2024 will be published by Springer as an LNCS volume, which is indexed by Scopus. This year, we have the following four submission categories: full papers, short papers, practice papers, and demo/poster papers.

The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper will be awarded by the Program Committee and selected from the accepted full papers. Candidates for the Best Student Paper award should have students as first authors. Selected papers will be invited for a special issue to be published with the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), published by Springer.

In order to provide young scholars with guidance from mentors and establish networking opportunities for them, a student symposium will be held as part of the AP i-conference.  In addition, if there is any interest in organising workshops, tutorials or panel sessions please contact the conference chair (Professor Gillian Oliver gillian.oliver@monash.edu) directly with a proposal.  The proposal should specify title, background and purpose, topics, workshop/tutorial/panel structure and organiser(s). 

IMPORTANT DATES

• Full, Short Research and Practice Papers Submission: July 21, 2024 Extended to July 29, 2024
• Demo/Poster Papers Submission: July 21, 2024 Extended to July 29, 2024
• AP-iConference Paper/Student Symposium Submission: August 25, 2024
• Decision Notification (All paper categories except for AP-iConference): September 8, 2024 
• Decision Notification (AP-iConference): September 20, 2024 
• Camera Ready Copy of Papers (All paper categories including AP-iConference): September 29, 2024 
• Conference: December 4 - 6, 2024

We invite submissions on diverse topics related to digital libraries and related fields including (but not limited to):

• Information Technologies, Data Science & Applications
  • Information retrieval and access technologies to digital collections
  • Data mining and information extraction
  • IoT and digital libraries
  • AI for digital libraries
  • Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
  •  Knowledge discovery from digital libraries content
  •  Recommender systems for digital libraries content
  • Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
  • Data science techniques
  • Semantic Web, linked data, and metadata technologies
  • Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
  • Applications and quality assurance of digital libraries
  • Research data and open access
  • Visualization, user interface, and user experience
  • Social networking and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries
  • Personal information management and personal digital libraries
  • Information service technologies in digital libraries
  • Bibliometrics and scholarly communication in digital libraries
  • Curation and preservation technologies in digital libraries
  • Information organization support
  • Novel applications for digital libraries
  • Pretrained language models and digital libraries
  • Generating prompts for large language models
  • Detecting content created by generative AI
• Social Informatics and socio-technological issues in digital libraries
  • Data analytics for social networks
  • Socio-technical aspects of digital libraries
  • Sustainability of digital libraries
  • Research methods for digital libraries during social isolation times
  • Roles of digital libraries for isolated societies
  • Digital libraries for learning, collaboration, and organization in the networked
  • environment
  • Societal and cultural issues in knowledge, information, and data
  • Intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation
  • Intellectual property issues
  • Policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries
  • Social, legal, ethical, financial issues of Web Archives
  • Social policy issues on digital libraries
  • Information behavior analysis
  • Social sciences and digital libraries
  • Crowdsourcing and user-generated content
  • Information work and digital libraries
  • Information economics and digital libraries
  • Education with digital libraries
  • Participatory cultures and digital libraries
  • Digital scholarship and services
  • Open data initiatives and utilization
  • Misinformation and disinformation
  • Impact of generative AI on digital library policy and practice
  • Generative AI and the digital library user experience
• Cultural Information, Digital Humanities and Scholarly Data Analysis
  • Cultural heritage access and analysis
  • Dealing with history, literature, music in digital libraries
  • Scholarly data analysis
  • Scientometrics
  • Access and usage of Web Archives
  • Community Informatics
  • Cultural heritage and museum informatics
  • Collaborations among archives, libraries, and museums
  • Collection development and discovery
  • Digital cultural memory initiatives
  • Memory organizations in the digital space
  • Digital preservation and digital curation
  • Digital library/digital archive infrastructures
  • Digital library education and digital literacy
  • Higher education uses of digital collections
  • Research data infrastructures, management and use
  •  Information policies
  • Participatory cultural heritage

All submissions must be in English, in PDF format. Papers should follow Springer ComputerScience Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). All papers are to be submitted via the conference’s EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icadl2024).The lengths of submissions should be as follows:･

• Full papers: 12-14 pages + references
• Short papers: 6-8 pages + references
• Practice papers: 6-8 pages + references
• Demo/poster papers: 4-6 pages + references

The review process is double-blind. At least 3 Program Committee members will review each submission. The review for practice paper submissions will put less emphasis on the novelty and more on real world practices and applications of DL technologies in institutions or companies. Sufficient time will be given to the oral presentation for accepted papers in all submission categories either in-person or via online conferencing. Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one of the co-authors.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

Conference Chair: 

• Gillian Oliver (Monash University, Australia)

Program Committee Co-Chairs: 

• Taro Tezuka (University of Tsukuba)
• Tina Du (Charles Sturt University)
• Viviane Frings-Hessami (Monash University, Australia)