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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>IRCDL 2025</b><br>
21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting
to Digital and Library Science</font></font><br>
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Since 2005, IRCDL has been an annual event for researchers on
Digital Libraries and related topics. IRCDL has become a key
forum on digital libraries and associated issues. It covers
various aspects, including new forms of information
institutions, digital content management, and theoretical models
of information media. The conference welcomes participants from
academia, government, industry, and other sectors. It draws from
diverse research areas such as computer science, digital
humanities, information science, librarianship, archival
science, museum studies, technology, social sciences, cultural
heritage, and humanities.<br>
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This year, IRCDL 2025 features two distinct tracks,<br>
each with an associated special issue!<br>
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<b>CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL ISSUES</b><br>
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<b>>> Track 1</b><br>
Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries:<br>
Algorithms, Systems, and Applications<br>
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This track examines core computer science concepts essential for
digital libraries.<br>
It covers algorithms for information retrieval and data
management, system architectures<br>
for large-scale digital collections, and practical applications
in areas such as academic<br>
research and cultural heritage preservation.<br>
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Special Issue >> Published in: International Journal on
Digital Libraries<br>
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<b>>> Track 2</b><br>
Digital Humanities:<br>
The Science and Foundation of Modern Humanities Libraries<br>
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This track explores the intersection of digital technologies and
humanities research.<br>
It examines computational methods for analyzing and preserving
cultural artifacts,<br>
text mining techniques for large-scale literary analysis,<br>
and digital platforms for collaborative scholarship.<br>
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Special Issue >> Published in: Umanistica Digitale<br>
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Authors of selected papers from the two tracks will be invited
to<br>
submit extended versions of their work to the related special
issue indicated above.<br>
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Deadline for special issues: end of March/April.<br>
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*Additional details about the special issues will be available
soon.*<br>
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Submissions are welcome on theory, architectures, data models,
tools,<br>
services, and infrastructures. Possible topics include, but are
not limited to:<br>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Open data</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Open science: models,
practices, mandates, and policies</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Information retrieval
and access</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Information extraction
from tables and figures in scientific literature</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Application of machine
learning techniques to research data and digital libraries</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ontologies</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge discovery and
representation in digital libraries</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge acquisition
from scientific papers</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Document analysis
(layout, text, images)</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Services for digital
arts and humanities</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Cultural heritage access
and analysis</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Metadata (definition,
management, curation, integration)</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Digital manuscript
analysis</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Data repositories and
archives</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Data citation,
provenance, and pricing</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Data and information
lifecycle (creation, store, share, and reuse)</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Semantic web
technologies and linked data for DLs</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Digital epigraphy</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Digital preservation and
curation</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Quality and evaluation
of digital libraries</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Digital Scholarship</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Citation analysis and
scientometrics</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Research infrastructures</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">User participation</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Human-computer
interaction and user experience</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Applications of digital
libraries</font></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Multi-media handling</font></font></li>
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<b>DATES</b><br>
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>> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 6, 2024<br>
>> Notifications of acceptance: January 24, 2025<br>
>> Camera Ready deadline: February 7, 2025<br>
>> Conference: February 20-21, 2025<br>
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The conference will be held in Udine, Italy on February 20-21,
2025.<br>
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<b>SUBMISSIONS</b><br>
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All submissions will be handled electronically via the
conference’s CMT Website:<br>
<a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2025"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2025</a><br>
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Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed
topics and<br>
on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and
technology, are solicited.<br>
Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results
on previously published works,<br>
and extended abstract on previously published works are also
welcome:<br>
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>> Research papers: should be in the 10-12 pages range.<br>
>> Short papers: should be in the 6-7 pages range.<br>
>> Extended abstracts: should be 5 pages long.<br>
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For all the submission types the references are not counted in
the page limit.<br>
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Authors can find complete instructions on how to format their
papers at<br>
<a
href="https://ircdl2025.uniud.it/index.html#call-for-papers"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://ircdl2025.uniud.it/index.html#call-for-papers</a><br>
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The accepted submissions,<br>
including Long Papers, Short Papers, and Extended Abstracts<br>
will be published in the IRCDL 2025 Proceedings.<br>
The Proceedings will be published by CEUR-WS,<br>
which is gold open access and indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.<br>
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<b>PEOPLE</b><br>
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General Chairs: Stefano Mizzaro (U. Udine), Giuseppe Serra (U.
Udine)<br>
Program Chairs: Donatella Firmani (U. Rome - Sapienza), Sara
Tonelli (FBK), Marcella Cornia (U. Modena and Reggio Emilia),
Giorgio Maria di Nunzio (U. Padova)<br>
Technical Chairs: Andrea Brunello (U. Udine), Emanuela Colombi
(U. Udine), Alessandro Locaputo (U. Udine), Nicola Saccomanno
(U. Udine)<br>
Publication Chair: Alessandro Tremamunno (U. Udine)<br>
Publicity Chairs: Lorenzo Balzotti (U. Rome - Sapienza),
Vittorio Cuculo (U. Modena and Reggio Emilia), Beatrice
Portelli (U. Udine), Stefano Marchesin (U. Padova)<br>
Website Chair: Michael Soprano (U. Udine)<br>
Social Activity Chair: Alex Falcon (U. Udine)<br>
Local Organization Chairs: Ali Abdari (U. Udine), Mehdi Fasihi
(U. Udine), Ian Gallegos (U. Udine), Daniele Lizzio Bosco (U.
Udine)<br>
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<b>CONTACTS</b><br>
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<a href="mailto:giuseppe.serra@uniud.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">giuseppe.serra_at_uniud.it</a><br>
<a href="mailto:alessandro.locaputo@uniud.it"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">alessandro.locaputo_at_uniud.it</a><br>
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<a href="https://ircdl2025.uniud.it"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://ircdl2025.uniud.it</a></font><br>
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Vittorio Cuculo
Assistant Professor (RTD-A)
AImageLab - Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari"
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
via Vivarelli 10, Modena, 41125, Italy
phone +390592056289</pre>
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