Since its beginnings in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has become one of the premiere international conferences for digital library research. ICADL 2016 in Tsukuba, the Japanese science city near Tokyo, offers a valuable opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences and innovative developments.

ICADL 2016 will be held as a part of an international forum with the Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) to promote exchange and collaboration among information schools in Asia-Pacific. AP-IS will include a doctoral consortium, workshops, panel discussions and meetings for students and faculties from Information Schools in the Asia-Pacific region.

The main theme of ICADL 2016 is "Knowledge, Information and Data in Open Access Society." We solicit not only high-quality, original research papers, but also practitioner papers identifying research problems and future directions. Following the previous ICADLs, ICADL 2016 proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. The following is the (non-exhaustive) list of topics.

Important Dates:

2016-07-09 (Sat) Paper Submission Deadline
Full research papers (oral presentation)
Short practitioner papers (poster presentation)
Short work-in-progress papers (poster presentation)
2016-08-19(Fri) Workshop Proposal Deadline
2016-08-29(Mon) Notification (Papers and Workshops)
2016-09-13(Tue) Camera Ready Copy Due (Tentative)
List of (non-exhaustive) Topics

Information Technologies for Knowledge, Information and Data

Semantic Web and linked data
Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
Multilingual information access
Multimedia information management, retrieval and recommendation
Metadata aggregation models
Interchangeability and information integration
Ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information
Applications of digital libraries
Quality assurance of digital libraries
Sociability and high availability of digital libraries
Digital preservation
Digital curation
Research data and virtual organizations
User interface and user experience
Visualization in digital libraries
Social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interface in digital libraries
Personal information management and personal digital libraries
Ubiquitous computing and knowledge management
Societal and Cultural Issues in Knowledge, Information and Data

Community Informatics
Cross-sectoral digital libraries
Collaborations among archives, libraries, museums
Digital cultural memory initiatives
Digital humanities
Digital library/ digital archive infrastructures
Digital library education and digital literacy
Digital preservation and digital curation
Economic and legal frameworks and issues
Ethics and ethical practice, privacy in digital collection building, management and access
Higher education uses of digital collections
Research data infrastructures, management and use
Information policies
Participatory cultural heritage
Risks management in digital library/ archive projects
Creating, managing and using collections of social media and dynamically generated contents
Social sustainability and digital libraries/ archives
Socio-technical perspectives of digital information
Usability and accessibility aspects of digital libraries


Organization of Information Forum 2016 (ICADL 2016 and AP-IS 2016) (to be updated)

Organizing Committee:
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba (General Co-chair, AP-IS PC co-chair)
Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba (General Co-chair, ICADL PC co-chair)
Chern Li Liew,Victoria University of Wellington (ICADL PC co-chair)
Andreas Rauber,Vienna University of Technology (ICADL PC co-chair)
Tetsuo Sakaguch, University of Tsukuba (Local Arrangements chair)
Mitsuharu Nagamori, University of Tsukuba (Publicity Co-chair lead)
Gobinda Chowdhury, Northumbria University (Publicity Co-chair)
Bhuva Narayan, University of Technology Sydney (Publicity Co-chair)
Sue-yeon Syn, The Catholic University of America (Publicity Co-chair)
Hiroshi Itsumura, University of Tsukuba (Public Relations, Publishers and Libraries)
Emi Ishita, Kyushu University (AP-IS Publication chair)
Akira Maeda, Ritsumeikan Univeristy (ICADL Publication chair)
Atsushi Ikeuchi University of Tsukuba (Treasurer)
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia (International Advisory)