TPDL 2025: Call for Papers

The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) will be held in Tampere, Finland, from September 23-26, 2025.

TPDL 2025 specifically reaches out to academic researchers and practitioners in digital libraries in the light of new technological advances. It encourages submissions that showcase innovative, usable, reliable, and sustainable approaches, particularly those pointing to real-world applications and reflecting on their methods' benefits, challenges, and limitations.

Topics

We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing topics that include but are not limited to, theories, models, standards, tools and applications on the following themes:

• Publishing Science
• FAIR Data and Software
• Data Lifecycle Management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse)
• Research Objects
• Nanopublications
• Supporting Science Reproducibility
• Metadata Standards
• Research Data Management
• Research Output Management
• Information Management Science
• Data Management and Discovery
• Data Search and Discovery in Digital Libraries
• Digital Preservation and Curation
• Data Provenance and Documentation
• Linked Data and Open Data Platforms
• Data Repositories and Archives
• Data Citation and Credit Distribution
• Data Stewardship and Governance
• Data Integration and Harmonization
• Monitoring and Assessment of Science
• Science of Science Studies
• Scientometrics and Bibliometrics
• Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graphs
• Impact Analysis in Scientific Research
• Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
• AI and Machine Learning Applications in Digital Libraries
• Knowledge Bases and Organizational Systems
• Entity Extraction and Semantic Linking
• Ontology Development and Usage
• Data as collection
• Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
• Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation
• Computational Linguistics and Digital Terminology
• Digital Methods in History and Archaeology
• Knowledge Organization in the Humanities
• Digital Interfaces for Humanities Research
• Digital Repatriation
• Indigenous data, governance, and sovereignty
• Human-Computer Interaction in Digital Libraries
  • Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces
  • User Experience and Participation in Digital Libraries
  • Information Visualization and Analytics
  • Interaction Design for Diverse User Groups
• Information Retrieval
  • Advanced Search Algorithms and Techniques
  • Semantic Search and Indexing
  • User-Centric Information Retrieval Design
  • Information Retrieval System Evaluation
  • Multimodal and Multilingual Information Access
• Information Behavior and Interaction in Digital Libraries
• Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Document Image Analysis and Recognition for Digital Libraries
  • Physical and Logical Layout Analysis
  • Historical Document Analysis
  • Document Semantics Extraction
  • Natural Language Processing for Document Analysis

Contribution Types

• Research Papers: (15 pages + unlimited references) Present high-quality, original research relevant to the TPDL community. Submissions should focus on or perspective to Digital Libraries, detailing methods and techniques for replication and reuse. Accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and presented as long conference talks.
• Practitioner Papers: (15 pages + unlimited references) Present high-quality applied work relevant to the TPDL community. Submissions should focus on results of direct relevance to practitioners and institutions. Accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and presented as long conference talks.
• Short Papers: (Specific page limit not detailed, but implies shorter than research/practitioner papers) Presented as long conference talks. Will be published in LNCS.
• Demonstrations: For showcasing tools, implementations, or applications.
• Doctoral Consortium: For doctoral students to present their research.
• Workshops: Proposals for specific related topics.

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be in the Springer LNCS style. Refer to: Springer LNCS guidelines. However, a direct link to the template is not provided in the text.
• Submissions must be in PDF format.
• Submissions must be made using the CMT online submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TPDL2025.
• When submitting, select the appropriate track, such as "TPDL2025 - Full Papers Track" for research and practitioner papers.
• Failure to comply with the submission guidelines will lead to direct rejection without review.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.

TPDL Research Papers (Full Papers)

• Submission deadline: 9 May 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 14 June 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 10 July 2025

TPDL Short Papers

• Submission deadline: 20 June 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 17 July 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 27 July 2025

TPDL Demonstration Papers

• Submission deadline: 20 June 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 17 July 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 27 July 2025

TPDL Workshop Proposals

• Submission deadline: 4 February 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 21 February 2025

TPDL Doctoral Consortium

• Submission deadline: 12 June 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 27 July 2025

Awards

Springer will sponsor the TPDL 2025 Best Paper Award, Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award, Best Demonstration, and Best Short Paper.

Program Chairs

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
• Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Yannis Manolopoulos, Academia Europaea, Greece