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 known as a significant 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 will be held from November 30th to December 2nd, 2022 at the Hoa Lac campus of Vietnam National Universityin Hanoi, Vietnam, as an onsite face-to- face conference but allows those who cannot attend to present their papers online and join sessions. ICADL2022 will be held held in conjunction with AP-iConference which is an annual event of Asia-Pacific Chapter of iSchools (AP-iSchools). A graduate student symposium will also be held as a part of AP-iConference.

In the past few years, we have witnessed the rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence, especially in semantic search, personalized recommendation, understanding and generation for texts, images, video, and documents, together with augmented libraries, metaverse, IoT, Blockchain, and Big Data Analytics. With these advances, many innovative applications become possible, and Digital Libraries could play important roles in the research, applications, and practices in this direction. Therefore, the theme for ICADL 2022 is "From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries" . ICADL 2022 will provide an opportunity for researchers from not only Asia-Pacific regions but also all over the world to exchange and discuss their ideas together across different domains to achieve an innovative digital information environment.

The ICADL 2022 program includes scholarly sessions for both online and onsite participants and social events for onsite participants. The scholarly program includes three keynote talks, presentations of papers selected by the program committee, and two interactive sessions. All papers submitted to ICADL 2022 were reviewed by at least three reviewers and selected for presentation by their quality and relevance to ICADL. The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper will be awarded by the Program Committee among the accepted full papers. In addition, same as the last year, the selected best papers are planned to be invited for a special issue to be published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Springer.

Potential attendees who have not registered yet, please visit the registration page and register online. Online participation is free of charge.

Topics

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

Information Technologies, Data Science & Applications

• AI for digital libraries
• IoT and digital libraries
• Distributed Ledger Technologies for digital libraries
• Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, Metaverse for digital libraries
• Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
• Knowledge discovery from digital library’s content
• Recommender systems for digital library’s content
• Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
• Data science techniques
• Information retrieval and access technologies to digital collections
• Data mining and information extraction
• 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

Cultural Information, Digital Humanities, & Scholarly Data Analysis

• Cultural heritage access and analysis
• Digital history
• 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

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 science
• 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