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        Date: 2025-11-12 07:28:09+00:00
        From: Marilena Daquino <marilena.daquino2@unibo.it>
        Subject: Re: Call for Papers IRCDL 2026 - Modena, February 19-20

Dear all,
I am glad to share with the community the 2nd Call for Paper of the next
Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library
Science (IRCDL) 2026.
Best
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Call for Papers
IRCDL 2026
22nd Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and
Library Science
Modena, Italy
February 19-20, 2026 https://ircdl2026.unimore.it/
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Apologies for multiple posting
Please distribute this call to interested parties

AIMS AND SCOPE
===============
Since 2005, the Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to
Digital and Library Science (IRCDL) has been an annual event for researchers on
Digital Libraries and related topics. IRCDL has become a key forum on digital
libraries and associated issues. It covers various aspects, including new forms
of information institutions, digital content management, and theoretical models
of information media. The conference welcomes participants from academia,
government, industry, and other sectors. It draws from diverse research areas
such as computer science, digital humanities, information science,
librarianship, archival science, museum studies, technology, social sciences,
cultural heritage, and humanities.

IRCDL 2026 features two distinct tracks, each with an associated special issue:

● Track 1: Computer Science Foundations for Digital Libraries: Algorithms,
Systems, and Applications
This track examines core computer science concepts essential for digital
libraries. It covers algorithms for information retrieval and data management,
system architectures for large-scale digital collections, and practical
applications in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage
preservation.
Special Issue: published in International Journal on Digital Libraries
● Track 2: Digital Humanities: The Science and Foundation of Modern Humanities
Libraries This track explores the intersection of digital technologies and
humanities research. It examines computational methods for analyzing and
preserving cultural artifacts, text mining techniques for large-scale literary
analysis, and digital platforms for collaborative scholarship.
Special Issue: published in Umanistica Digitale

TOPICS
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Submissions are welcome on theory, architectures, data models, tools, services,
and infrastructures. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
● Open data
● Open science: models, practices, mandates, and policies
● Information retrieval and access
● Information extraction from tables and figures in scientific literature
● Machine learning and data mining for digital libraries
● Generative AI and foundation models for digital libraries
● Responsible and ethical AI in digital libraries
● Ontologies
● Knowledge discovery, representation, and reasoning in digital libraries
● Knowledge acquisition from scientific papers
● Document analysis (layout, text, images)
● Services for digital arts and humanities
● Cultural heritage access and analysis
● Metadata (definition, management, curation, integration)
● Digital manuscript analysis
● Data repositories and archives
● Data citation, provenance and pricing
● Data and information lifecycle (creation, store, share and reuse)
● Semantic web technologies and linked data for digital libraries
● Digital epigraphy
● Digital preservation and curation
● Quality and evaluation of digital libraries
● Digital scholarship
● Citation analysis and scientometrics
● Research infrastructures
● User participation
● Human-computer interaction and user experience
● Multimodal and multimedia information management
● Applications of digital libraries

IMPORTANT DATES
=================
● Submission deadline: November 28, 2025
● Notifications of acceptance: January 23, 2026
● Camera-ready deadline: February 6, 2026
● Conference: February 19-20, 2026
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
======================
All submissions will be handled electronically via the conference CMT website:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IRCDL2026
Research papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other
fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited.
Moreover, short papers on early research results, new results on previously
published works, and extended abstract on previously published works are also
welcome:
● Research papers: should be in the 10-12 pages range.
● Short papers: should be in the 6-7 pages range.
● Extended abstracts: should be 5 pages long.
For all the submission types, references are not counted in the page limit.
The accepted papers will be part of the IRCDL 2026 Proceedings, published by
CEUR-WS.

[...]
Marilena Daquino, Assistant Professor
/DH.arc, Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre.
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna,
via Zamboni 32, 40126, Bologna. Italy



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