23rd Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science

About IRCDL 2027

Since 2005, the Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL) has been an annual event for researchers on Digital Libraries and related topics, becoming a key forum for the field. 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 on diverse research areas, including computer science, information science, digital humanities, librarianship, archival science, museum studies, technology, social sciences, cultural heritage, and the humanities.

Call For Papers

Topics

Submissions are welcome on theory, architectures, data models, tools, services, and infrastructures. Possible topics include, but are not limited to

Open data & FAIR data
Open science: models, practices, mandates, and policies
Scholarly communication, research publishing, and open science
Information retrieval, discovery, and access
Information extraction from scientific literature, tables, figures, and multimodal content
Machine learning and data mining for digital libraries
Application of machine learning techniques to research data and digital libraries
Generative AI, Large Language Models, and foundation models for digital libraries
Responsible and ethical AI in digital libraries
AI agents and agentic systems for digital libraries
AI-assisted metadata generation, enrichment, and curation
Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and Semantic Technologies
AI-generated content: provenance, authenticity, attribution, and preservation
Knowledge discovery, representation, and reasoning in digital libraries
Knowledge acquisition from scientific papers

Document analysis (layout, text, images)
Services for digital arts and humanities
Cultural heritage access and analysis
Metadata (definition, management, curation, integration)
Digital manuscript analysis
Data repositories and archives
Data citation, provenance, attribution, licensing, and reuse
Data and information lifecycle (creation, storage, dissemination, and reuse)
Semantic web technologies and linked data for digital libraries
Digital epigraphy
Digital preservation and curation
Quality and evaluation of digital libraries
Digital scholarship, scientometrics, research assessment, and responsible metrics
Research infrastructures, Virtual Research Environments, and collaborative research platforms
User participation
Human-computer interaction and user experience
Multimodal and multimedia information management
Applications and case studies of digital libraries

Tracks

The 23rd Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science will feature two different tracks:

Track 1

Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

This track examines core computer science concepts essential for digital libraries. It covers algorithms for information retrieval and data management, system architectures for large-scale digital collections, and practical applications in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage preservation.

Special Issue

Published in International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Track 2

Digital Humanities: The Science and Foundation of Modern Humanities Libraries

This track explores the intersection of digital technologies and humanities research. It examines computational methods for analysing and preserving cultural artefacts, text mining techniques for large-scale literary analysis, and digital platforms for collaborative scholarship.

Special Issue

Published in Umanistica Digitale.

Additional details about the special issues on International Journal on Digital Libraries and Umanistica Digitale. will be available soon.

Submissions

Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results on previously published works, and extended abstract on previously published works are also welcome:

Research papers: should be in the 10-12 pages range.
Short papers: should be in the 6-7 pages range.
Extended abstracts: should be 5 pages long.

For all the submission types the references are not counted in the page limit.

Submissions must be in English, single-blind, in PDF format, and in the CEURART single-column format; each paper will be reviewed by (tentatively) three Program Committee members.

Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, may be desk-rejected without review. You can download an offline version with the style files from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. It also contains DOCX template files. Overleaf users may want to use the CEURART template available in Overleaf. Please also adhere to the CEUR-WS Policy on AI-Assisting Tools.

Overleaf template

⚠️ Due to recent changes in Overleaf's policy, a paid account may now be required to compile this template. It is recommended to check and, if necessary, use a local LaTeX setup.

CEUR.WS repository (offline version)

ODT version

The accepted papers will be published in the IRCDL 2027 Proceedings. The Proceedings will be published by CEUR-WS, which is gold open access and indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP, and so on.

Submission will be through the submission system at the following link

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2027

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.