Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2019 Oslo, Norway / COVID-19 Professional Reading

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2019 Oslo, Norway, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings. Editors Antoine Doucet; @antoine_isaac; @koraljkagolub; @traalberg; Adam Jatowt. ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8.  421 pp. COVID-19 Professional Reading.

The "Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries" (TPDL) conference brings together researchers, developers, and data experts in the field of digital libraries. This year’s theme was “Connecting with Communities.” Digital libraries and repositories store, manage, represent, and disseminate rich and heterogeneous data that are often of enormous cultural, scientific, educational, artistic, and social value. Serving as digital ecosystems they provide unparalleled opportunities for novel knowledge extraction and discovery. This year’s conference, TPDL 2019, was held 9-12 September 2019 in Oslo, Norway.

I attended the 2019 TDLP and presented, on behalf of my co-authors, the poster session, “The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Unveiling a World of Knowledge About Life on Earth.” Martin R. Kalfatovic, Grace Costantino, and Constance A. Rinaldo. 

The meeting was very informative with many excellent presentations. Papers of note at the meeting included: 

• Coner: A Collaborative Approach for Long-Tail Named Entity Recognition in Scientific Publications / Daniel Vliegenthart, Sepideh Mesbah, Christoph Lofi, Akiko Aizawa, and Alessandro Bozzon

• The OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: On Blending Scientific Workflows and Scientific Publishing / Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, Argiro Kokogiannaki, Paolo Manghi, Katerina Iatropoulou, Pedro Principe, André Vieira, Lars Holm Nielsen, Harry Dimitropoulos, Ioannis Foufoulas, Natalia Manola, Claudio Atzori, Sandro La Bruzzo, Emma Lazzeri, Michele Artini, Michele De Bonis, and Andrea Dell’Amico

• A Framework for Citing Nanopublications / Erika Fabris, Tobias Kuhn , and Gianmaria Silvello

• Who is Mona L.? Identifying Mentions of Artworks in Historical Archives / Nitisha Jain and Ralf Krestel

• Gatekeeper: Quantifying the Impacts of Service to the Scientific Community / Spyke Krepsha and Dongwon Lee

• Can Language Inference Support Metadata Generation? / José María González Pinto, Janus Wawrzinek, Suma Kori, and Wolf-Tilo Balke

• The CSO Classifier: Ontology-Driven Detection of Research Topics in Scholarly Articles / Angelo A. Salatin, Francesco Osborne, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, and Enrico Motta

• Non-Parametric Subject Prediction / Shenghui Wang, Rob Koopman, and Gwenn Englebienne

Overall, an excellent meeting (and proceedings) that covers current trends and research in digital libraries.

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