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This special issue ea u es he selec ed wo ks o au ho s who ha e p esen ed pape s a he 2022 i e a ion o he Join Con e ence
on Digi al Lib a ies (JCDL) in Cologne, Ge many. The mo o o he con e ence was “B idging Wo lds” and was un as a
ully hyb id e en . Ten pape s co e ing all aspec s o Digi al Lib a ies, namely Na u al Language P ocessing, In o ma ion
Re ie al, Use Beha io , Schola ly Communica ion, Classi ica ion, In o ma ion Ex ac ion a e included in his issue.
Keywo ds Digi al lib a ies ·Na u al language p ocessing ·In o ma ion e ie al ·Use beha io ·Schola ly communica ion ·
Classi ica ion ·In o ma ion ex ac ion
1 Recap o JCDL 2022
This special issue ea u es he selec ed wo ks o au ho s who
ha e p esen ed pape s a he 2022 i e a ion o JCDL1— he
wen y-second mee ing o he ACM/IEEE Join Con e ence
on Digi al Lib a ies. All published a icles a e a ailable in he
JCDL 2022 p oceedings [1]. The con e ence heme o JCDL
2022 was “B idging Wo lds” and aimed o b ing oge he
people om he Digi al Lib a y (DL) communi y again. As
digi al lib a ies a e adi ionally s ong in connec ing he dig-
i al and he physical wo ld, we ha e picked up his he i age
and es ablished a hyb id o ma 2 ha is as open as possible
o e e yone.
The JCDL 2022 call o pape s a ac ed o e 160 sub-
missions om 35 coun ies on i e con inen s. The p og am
commi ee e iewed and accep ed 24 esea ch pape s (24%
BPhilipp May
[email p o ec ed]
BAnnika Hinze
[email p o ec ed]
BPhilipp Schae
[email p o ec ed]
1Knowledge Technologies o he Social Sciences, GESIS –
Leibniz Ins i u e o he Social Sciences, Cologne, Ge many
2Compu ing and Ma hema ical Sciences, Uni e si y o
Waika o, Hamil on, New Zealand
3Ins i u e o In o ma ion Science, TH Köln – Uni e si y o
Applied Sciences, Cologne, Ge many
1h ps://2022.jcdl.o g/.
2h ps://2022.jcdl.o g/hyb id/.
accep ance a e, 100 submissions), 11 la e-b eaking esea ch
pape s (34.4% accep ance a e, 32 submissions), 3 da ase s (6
submissions), 7 demons a ions (15 submissions), 2 u o ials,
and 6 wo kshops. The doc o al conso ium o young Digi al
Lib a y schola s accep ed 5 con ibu ions o p esen a ion.
The p og am chai s o JCDL 2022 in oduced some
changes o he scien i ic e iew p ocess. Fo he e y i s
ime, JCDL used a double-blind pee - e iew p ocess. A
ange o new submission ypes we e c ea ed: a iable-leng h
esea ch pape s, la e-b eaking, demos, and da ase s. This led
o in e es ing obse a ions, such as ha he a e age pape
leng h in he esea ch ack was 8.05 pages, wi h accep ed
pape s ha ing an a e age o 8.87 pages and ejec ed pape s
7.84 pages. Accep ed submissions co e ed a wide ange o
opics ac oss he ield o digi al lib a ies along wi h he ou
main opics o he call o pape s: (1) use s and in e ac ions,
(2) sea ch and ecommenda ion, (3) digi al lib a ies in p ac-
ice, and (4) con en and s uc u es.
The main con e ence p og am was o ganized in o 11 ple-
na y sessions on he ollowing opics: in o ma ion e ie al
and access, sea ch and ecommenda ion, na u al language
p ocessing, web a chi es, bibliome ics and al me ics, in o -
ma ion ex ac ion, classi ica ion, and schola ly communica-
ion. Mos o he p esen ed pape s (on-si e and online) a e
a ailable in he ollowing You ube channel.3
While scheduling he sessions, he speake s’ ime zones
we e conside ed as much as possible. We aimed o a good
balance be ween online and on-si e pa icipan s whene e
3h ps://www.you ube.com/playlis ?lis =PLn0n Sd4xjjZYAs4Wp52
mzYBqeg0W1uQa.
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possible. The e o e, in con as o pu e on-si e con e ences,
all ques ions o he p esen e s we e collec ed online. The
session chai s, who we e on-si e, mode a ed ques ions om
online and on-si e pa icipan s in pa allel. To s eng hen he
exchange be ween online and on-si e pa icipan s, we o e ed
a no el “Mee -The-Expe s” o ma . Selec ed on-si e expe s
ha e been a ailable o dialogue wi h he online pa icipan s
du ing sessions pa allel o he main p og am.
The p og am chai s o JCDL 2022 in i ed all he bes
pape s and bes pape nominees o he con e ence o con-
ibu e o his IJDL special issue. In addi ion o his, we
published an open call o pape s on he IJDL websi e and
sha ed his in o ma ion wi h all au ho s a JCDL 2022. In
o al, we ecei ed 12 submissions, all by au ho s who had
pape s a JCDL 2022. All au ho s we e b ie ed ha a min-
imum o 30% addi ional ma e ials ha e o be added o
he ex ended ollow-up pape s. Gues Edi o s and e iewe s
checked his o all special issue submissions. A e an in-
dep h pee e iew, we could accep 10 o hese submissions.
One pape was ejec ed and one pape was wi hd awn by he
au ho s. In he ollowing, you will ind a sho desc ip ion o
all pape s in his special issue.
2 Special issue pape s
The ollowing sec ion p o ides an o e iew o he en pape s
o ganized in o ca ego ies. The pape s appea in his issue in
he same sequence. We compiled a comp ehensi e o e iew
o he en pape s in Table 1conce ning he applica ion a ea,
used co po a, asks, and me hods in each publica ion. We see
a he e ogeneous se o publica ions ha e lec s he b oad and
in e disciplina y na u e o he ield o digi al lib a ies.
2.1 Ex ended in i ed alk
De i ed om an in i ed alk o JCDL 2022, Mukumbi a &
Winschie s-Theophilus [2] in oduce his special issue wi h
hei wo k on “Implica ions o an ecospa ial indigenous pe -
spec i e on digi al in o ma ion o ganiza ion and access.”
They explo e he complexi ies o digi izing indigenous
knowledge, highligh ing he challenge posed by epis emo-
logical di e ences and he limi ed engagemen o indigenous
communi ies. They d aw on expe iences om p ojec s in
Namibia o shed ligh on how indigenous ecospa ial wo ld-
iews in luence he design o digi al in o ma ion sys ems
o accessing indigenous knowledge. Emb acing eme g-
ing echnologies like augmen ed and i ual eali y, he
pape en isions mo e inclusi e digi al lib a ies ha hono
indigenous pe spec i es, aiming o iche , mo e imme si e
ep esen a ions o hei knowledge and cul u e.
2.2 Na u al language p ocessing
In hei pape on “C oss-lingual ex eme summa iza ion o
schola ly documen s” Takeshi a e al. [3] explo e ad anced
neu al models o c ea e c oss-lingual summa ies o schol-
a ly ex s, add essing he o e whelming olume o scien-
i ic publica ions. They in oduce he X-SCITLDR da ase ,
acili a ing mul ilingual summa iza ion by aining models
o p ocess English pape s and gene a e Ge man, I alian,
Chinese, and Japanese summa ies. The s udy benchma ks
a ious models, including a wo-s age pipeline and di ec
c oss-lingual app oaches, while in es iga ing me hods like
in e media e-s age aining and knowledge dis illa ion o
enhance e iciency and educe compu a ional complexi y
du ing summa iza ion in e ence.
The ollowing pape on NLP is “C ea ing and alida ing a
schola ly knowledge g aph using na u al language p ocess-
ing and mic o ask c owdsou cing” [4]. In his wo k, Oelen e
al. in oduce TinyGenius, a me hod alida ing NLP-ex ac ed
schola ly knowledge by le e aging c owdsou ced mic o asks
o popula e a pape -cen ic knowledge g aph. They add ess
he limi a ions o NLP accu acy by employing i e dis inc
NLP me hods and ex end hei me hodology by de ailing
NLP asks and he da a model. A co esponding use e alu-
a ion e eals p omising p ospec s o mic o ask-based s a e-
men alida ion despi e a ying pa icipan ag eemen ac oss
di e en mic o asks, indica ing i s po en ial o imp o ing
he quali y o ex ac ed schola ly knowledge.
2.3 In o ma ion e ie al, access and use beha io
Roy a al. examine e ie abili y wi hin an in eg a ed sea ch
sys em, analyzing he in luence o e ie al sys ems on
accessing da ase s, publica ions, and a iables in a digi-
al lib a y. In hei pape “Re ie abili y in an in eg a ed
e ie al sys em: An ex ended s udy” [5] heyemploy a-
di ional me ics like he Lo enz cu e and Gini coe icien .
The s udy isualizes and disco e s a signi ican popula -
i y bias, e ealing ha speci ic da ase s a e mo e equen ly
e ie ed han o he s wi hin he same ca ego y. In e es ingly,
e ie abili y sco es among a iables and publica ions exhibi
mo e balanced dis ibu ions, indica ing a g ea e di e si y in
documen e ie abili y o da ase s compa ed o he o he
documen ypes.
The second pape in his sec ion is on “G adua e s u-
den sea ch s a egies wi hin academic digi al lib a ies” [6].
Hoebe & S o ie in es iga e g adua e s uden s’ in o ma ion
seeking s a egies in academic digi al lib a y sea ches, aim-
ing o de e mine whe he hei chosen s a egies align wi h
he sea ch scena io’s complexi y. U ilizing a su ey me hod,
pa icipan s ecalled ecen sea ch sessions, e ealing ha
only he lookup sea ch s a egy ma ched he sea ch scena io’s
complexi y consis en ly. Fac o s like discipline o s udy and
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Table 1 O e iew on his special issue conce ning he applica ion a ea, used co po a, asks, and me hods in each publica ion
Applica ion a ea Co pus Tasks Me hods
Mukumbi a and
Winschie s-
Theophilus [2]
In o ma ion
O ganiza ion
Digi alisa ion p ojec s Access o indigenous
knowledge
Case s udies
Takeshi a e al. [3] Documen
summa iza ion
Scien . abs ac s C oss-lingual
summa ies
TLDR me hods
Oelen e al. [4] Schola ly Knowledge
G aph
A Xi C owdsou cing NLP me hods
Roy e al. [5] Da ase Sea ch Social Science DL Measu ing e ie abili y Lo enz cu es; Gini
coe icien
Hoebe and
S o ie [6]
In o ma ion Seeking – Sea ch s a egy
u iliza ion
Online su ey
Hu e al. [7] Book Re iews Good eads Unde s anding
use -gene a ed book
e iews
Case s udies
Fe nandes and
Vaz-de-Melo [8]
Pee Re iew OpenRe iew da a Re iew sco e p edic ion Classi ica ion models
Heck e al. [9] Sys ema ic li e a u e
e iew
Educa ional DL Rele ance decision Co e age analysis
B ack e al. [10] Schola ly Documen
P ocessing
Scien . abs ac s and ull
ex s
Sen ence classi ica ion Deep Lea ning
K oll e al. [11] In o ma ion ex ac ion
wo k low
Wikipedia, DL En i y linking In o ma ion ex ac ion
DL digi al lib a y
sea ch aining impac ed s a egy choice, emphasizing he
need o ain s uden s in e ec i ely aligning s a egies wi h
ask complexi y and o de elop in e aces ha acili a e his
alignmen in he sea ch p ocess.
2.4 Schola ly communica ion
The i s wo k on schola ly communica ion is om Hu e al.
on “Complexi ies o le e aging use -gene a ed book e iews
o schola ly esea ch: T ansiency, powe dynamics, and cul-
u al dependency” [7]. This pape highligh s he sca ci y o
in as uc u e o s udying book ecep ion in digi al lib a ies
and unde sco es he o e looked complexi ies and e hical con-
ce ns su ounding he use o use -gene a ed book e iews in
schola ly esea ch. Th ough h ee case s udies in es iga ing
empo al shi s in ankings, sponso ed e iews, and eade
a ings ac oss languages, i e eals complexi ies in e iews,
emphasizing hei ansien na u e, powe dynamics, and cul-
u al dependencies. The s udy calls o a c i ical and nuanced
app oach o u ilizing use -gene a ed book e iews in schol-
a ly esea ch, acknowledging challenges in da a cu a ion and
p oposing mi iga ion s a egies o esea che s.
The las pape in his sec ion is by Fe nandes and Vaz-
de-Melo [8]. In hei pape “‘Enhancing he Examina ion
o Obs acles in an Au oma ed Pee Re iew Sys em” hey
in es iga e he challenges hinde ing he de elopmen o
an e icien au oma ed sys em o p edic ing e iew sco es
and inal pape decisions in he pee e iew p ocess. They
e alua e exis ing s a e-o - he-a models o hese asks,
e ealing ha models ace di icul y when classi ying spe-
ci ic ins ances, esul ing in a signi ican pe o mance d op,
a ound 23.31%, pa icula ly wi h ins ances challenging o
classi y. The esea ch unde sco es ha cu en models, while
p omising, s ill encoun e cases ha ma kedly impac hei
accu acy, highligh ing he dis ance om achie ing a ully
au oma ed sys em o sco ing and deciding he accep ance
o ejec ion o academic pape s.
2.5 Classi ica ion and in o ma ion ex ac ion
The i s pape in his las sec ion has he i le “Co e age
and simila i y o bibliog aphic da abases o ind mos el-
e an li e a u e o sys ema ic e iews in educa ion”. This
wo k by Heck e al. [9] examines he c i ical aspec o
selec ing bibliog aphic da abases o sys ema ic li e a u e
e iews in educa ional esea ch. I highligh s he lack o e i-
dence on da abase ele ance in his in e disciplina y ield.
Th ough empi ical da a analysis ac oss h ee ecen e iews,
he au ho s e alua e se en da abases, inding ha discipline-
speci ic da abases su pass in e na ional mul idisciplina y
sou ces in iden i ying ele an li e a u e. The s udy ad oca es
o a combina ion o discipline-speci ic in e na ional and
na ional da abases as he mos e ec i e app oach, o e ing
p ac ical implica ions o esea che s conduc ing sys ema ic
li e a u e sea ches in educa ion and ela ed disciplines.
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The nex pape has o be especially men ioned as i
won he Bes S uden Pape Awa d a JCDL 2022. In hei
pape “Sequen ial Sen ence Classi ica ion in Resea ch Pape s
using C oss-Domain Mul i-Task Lea ning” B ack e al. [10]
explo e he po en ial o ans e lea ning o sen ence classi i-
ca ion. While hey ocus on di e en scien i ic domains, hey
aim o imp o e he s uc u ing o esea ch pape s and aca-
demic sea ch engines. To achie e his goal, hey in oduce
a no el deep lea ning a chi ec u e and mul i- ask lea ning
app oach o c oss-domain sen ence classi ica ion, add ess-
ing challenges posed by di e ing ex s uc u es in ull pape s
and abs ac s and in oducing me hods o iden i y seman-
ically ela ed classes ac oss di e en anno a ion schemes.
Models ained ac oss a ious scien i ic domains bene i om
each o he using he p oposed mul i- ask lea ning a chi ec-
u e. Expe imen al esul s demons a e he supe io i y o his
app oach o e s a e-o - he-a me hods o ull-pape da ase s
and compe i i e pe o mance o abs ac da ase s.
In “A de ailed lib a y pe spec i e on nea ly unsupe ised
in o ma ion ex ac ion wo k lows in digi al lib a ies,” K oll
e al. [11] explo e he e icacy o unsupe ised ex ac ion
me hods in digi al lib a ies. They add ess he challenges o
cos ly and eliable ex ac ion wo k lows and ex end p e ious
esea ch by analyzing unsupe ised ex ac ion wo k lows in
domains like encyclopedias, Pha macy, and Poli ical Sci-
ences, del ing in o he quali y and applicabili y o hese
me hods. Addi ionally, he s udy sc u inizes ex ac ions
in mo e dep h, e i ies indings wi h a second ex ac ion
me hod, explo es canonicalizing me hods, and conside s he
handling o non-English ex s, ul ima ely discussing bes
p ac ices o unsupe ised ex ac ion wo k lows while ou -
lining hei oppo uni ies and limi a ions.
All en a icles ecei ed an ex ensi e pee e iew and edi-
o ial ea men o his special issue and ep esen he b oad
spec um o wo k and he he e ogenei y in ou communi y.
We hope you ind hese pape s as inno a i e and insigh ul
as we did. Enjoy he ead.
Acknowledgemen s We wan o hank he o ganizing commi ee o
JCDL 2022 o hei diligence, inno a ion, and lexibili y in plan-
ning and execu ing his con e ence. We hank ou sponso s and
suppo e s: ACM, IEEE, SIGIR, Deu sche Fo schungsgemeinscha
(DFG), GESIS—Leibniz Ins i u e o he Social Sciences, Uni e si y o
Hildesheim, Na ional Ins i u e o In o ma ics, TH Köln—Uni e si y o
Applied Sciences, Uni e si y o Waika o, and CNI. Special hanks go
o Zeljko Ca e ic, he ac ing Gene al Chai o JCDL 2022, who o ches-
a ed he con e ence o ganiza ion p e y well in he ligh o a di icul
mid- o-end-pandemic con ex .
Funding Open Access unding enabled and o ganized by P ojek
DEAL. Philipp May ecei ed addi ional unding by he Eu opean
Union unde he Ho izon Eu ope G an OMINO—O e coming Mul i-
le el IN o ma ion O e load (G an Numbe 101086321, h p://omino
p ojec .eu [12]).
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