Highlights:

- Due April 6
- Online participation available, travel not required
- Accepted papers to this track will be included in the JCDL proceedings and
included in the ACM Digital Library


Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan,  JCDL 2020 Organizing Committee has
> made the following changes:
>
> • Delay the conference date to August 1-5, 2020, which is right after ACM
> SIGIR 2020 (July 25-30, 2020)
> • Move the conference site to Xi’an China, which is at the same site as
> ACM SIGIR 2020
> • Allow virtual attendance/presentation of papers
> • Not enforce the "no show" policy
>
> These changes allow JCDL 2020 and SIGIR 2020 to be two conferences that
> are back to back. Therefore, it is possible for attendees to attend two
> important and relevant conferences with just one trip. The Organizing
> Committee of JCDL 2020 are working with that of SIGIR 2020 to explore
> further collaboration between the two conferences.
>
> JCDL 2020 continues to invite submissions to a newly created
> Practitioners Track.
>
> Practitioners Track Proposals
>
> The practitioners track emphasizes innovation, insight, and vision in the
> practice of digital libraries. It provides opportunities for libraries,
> archives, museums, publishers, and digital content industry partners to
> showcase their latest novel, speculative, and even provocative ideas,
> practices, case studies, technologies, productions, strategies, datasets,
> and/or designs related to digital library practices and services. Topics
> include but are not limited to
>
> • practice of emergency planning and response for libraries, archives, and
> museums
> • digital repositories
> • digital collections development and management
> • metadata and discovery services
> • open access and scholarly communication
> • open educational resources
> • teaching and learning support
> • digital publishing
> • big data and library cyberinfrastructure
> • research data management, digital curation, and stewardship
> • digital humanities
> • digital preservation
> • information service
> • information/data literacy
> • digital heritage/culture
>
> Authors must label their submissions with at least one of the following
> four streams. Submissions will be evaluated using criteria set forth in the
> respective stream. There is no expectation that a submission must cover all
> four streams.
>
> 1. “I have a dream”. Submissions to this stream should focus on the
> vision, speculation, or prophetic prediction of trends on a) the future
> environment and/or ecosystem for libraries, museums, archives and related
> industry and b) how do we adapt and flourish. Proposals will be mainly
> evaluated on vision, novelty, and potential impact. We particularly
> encourage high-risk high-reward ideas, as long as the risks are clearly
> articulated and assessed.
>
> 2. “Told you so”. Submissions to this stream provide theoretical,
> experimental, computational, synthetic, or empirical proof or myth rebuttal
> related to popular and current digital library trends and practices.
> Proposals are expected to be well-referenced and balanced, and also offer
> nuance and clearly laid-out limitations. The evaluation will be focused on
> the merits of the arguments, as well as their potential impacts on the
> practices.
>
> 3. “We can do it”. Submission to this steam showcase exemplary projects,
> products, or services that have already been launched. Proposals may be
> further broken down into substreams such as a) “We did it first”, where
> novelty and differentiation factors are highlighted; b) “We do it best”,
> which focuses on the overall value gained by the patrons, communities, and
> the society; or c) “We can do better”, which highlights critical
> improvements. Proposals in this stream will be evaluated on the verifiable
> benefits these projects bring.
>
> 4. “Together we’ll go far”. Submissions to this stream emphasize broad
> collaborations, e.g., those beyond boundaries of departments, libraries,
> institutions, academic disciplines, communities, regions, or even
> countries. Authors should clearly articulate what, how, and why the
> collaboration works and what values the collaboration brings to each
> partner.
>
> Proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact
> information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. As indicated in
> the JCDL 2020 Call for Submissions, Practitioners Track submissions
> should use the ACM Proceedings template (
> http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and are to be
> submitted in electronic format via the conference’s EasyChair submission
> page (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=jcdl2020).
>
> Accepted proposals to the Practitioners Track will be included in the
> conference proceedings and will be presented at the conference in visual
> formats including but are not limited to posters, videos, or system and
> production demonstrations. At least one author of each accepted proposal is
> expected to give a one-minute presentation.
>
> All questions concerning the practitioners track proposals should be
> discussed with the track co-chairs prior to the submission deadline of
> April 6, 2020. Notification of acceptance is April 27, 2020 . This year’s
> practitioners track co-chairs are:
>
> Zhiwu Xie, Virginia Tech Libraries, USA [log in to unmask]
> Long Xiao, Peking University Library, China, China [log in to unmask]
> Wei Liu, Shanghai Library, China [log in to unmask]
>