JCDL

Welcome to JCDL 2007! It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 7th annual meeting of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). JCDL is one of the primary international forums for the presentation and discussion of research, practice and social issues related to digital libraries. The conference theme this year is "Building and Sustaining the Digital Environment" and the program reflects these themes as well as the broader context of digital libraries and the boundary spanning research that supports their design, development and operation.

This year we had a record number of submissions for the conference with 279 total submissions from digital library researchers in 31 countries. From 119 Full papers submissions and 68 short paper submissions the program committee selected 43 Full papers and 28 Short papers for presentation at the conference. In addition, 30 posters and 14 demonstrations were selected for presentation at the special poster and demo evening session. As in previous years we will be awarding the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award (sponsored by ACM). In addition to the main meeting, a full schedule of tutorials and workshops has been arranged bracketing the main meeting. This year we also host the largest Doctoral Consortium yet held at JCDL, where student researchers in digital library topics work with an international panel of faculty mentors on exploring and refining their thesis research.