JCDL is an inter- and multi-disciplinary community of academics and practitioners in computer, information and social sciences and related disciplines, including museum and library professionals and archivists. Digital Libraries is a broad discipline encompassing notions of managing, operating, developing, curating, evaluating, or utilizing collections of data/information/knowledge within public and private spheres.

We invite submissions in many forms: short and long papers, panels, posters, tutorials, and workshops. We will also host a Doctoral Consortium.

We invite you to make original submissions on related research and practice. We especially welcome topics related to and informed by the theory and practice of digital libraries in times of crises.

Topics of interest, as they relate to digital libraries, include, but are not limited to:

Collaborative and participatory information environments
Crowdsourcing and human computation
Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments
Data curation and stewardship
Digital humanities and heritage
Digital preservation
Distributed information systems
Document genres
Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections
Hypertext and Web/network science
Human-information Interaction
Information and knowledge systems
Information retrieval
Information visualization
Infrastructure and service design
Knowledge discovery
Linked data and its applications
Multimedia
Performance evaluation
Personal digital information management
Policy and law
Privacy and Intellectual property
Scientific data management
Social media, architecture, and applications
Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information
User behavior and modeling
User communities
All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and must be original works, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere.

Submissions are to be made in electronic format via the conference’s EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=jcdl2021).

Submission Deadlines:
15 March 2021 – Full paper and short paper submissions
15 March 2021 – Poster and demo submissions
22 March 2021 – Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions
28 June 2021 – Doctoral consortium submissions

JCDL 2021 Programme Chairs
Dana McKay danamckay@gmail.com
Hussein Suleman hussein@cs.uct.ac.za