Early-bird registration for JCDL 2013 has been extended to June 5. Register
online at http://www.regonline.com/JCDL2013. Rates available at
http://jcdl2013.org/registration. The full program is available at
http://jcdl2013.sched.org/.

 

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international
forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical,
organizational, and social issues, taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana,
USA on July 22-26, 2013. The theme for JCDL 2013 is "Digital Libraries at
the Crossroads," in recognition of our location (Indiana is known as the
Crossroads of America) and in recognition of the changes forthcoming from
the age of mass digitization, big data, and the ever changing nature of
scholarly communications.

 

Program Highlights:

 

* 3 outstanding keynote speakers: Jill Cousins, Clifford Lynch, and David de
Roure. More information at: http://jcdl2013.org/keynotespeakers;

* 6 workshops covering topics such as data and software preservation,
digital scholarship, research methods and artifacts preservation, web
archiving, mining publications, and CURATEcamp. More information at
http://jcdl2013.org/workshops;

* 6 tutorials on topics including Europeana data model & collections,
ResourceSync, Introduction to Digital Libraries, building collections with
Greenstone, mining data semantics, and using open annotation. More
information at http://jcdl2013.org/tutorials;

* A diverse range of papers - 28 full papers and 22 short papers. More
information at http://jcdl2013.org/papers;

* And much more, including posters and demonstrations. More information at
http://jcdl2013.org/posters-demonstrations. 

 

Indianapolis is a wonderful conference city friendly to both walkers and
cyclists, with many dining, entertainment, and sports options accessible
from the downtown area. Check out the visitors guide developed for ACRL
2013: http://conference.acrl.org/indy-pages-163.php. More JCDL travel
details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/travel.