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Welcome to JCDL 2005. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on DigitalLibraries (JCDL) is a major international forum that focuses ondigital libraries and associated educational, technical and socialissues. The theme of JCDL 2005 highlights the powerful role ofdigital libraries as cyberinfrastructure.>We received over 270 submissions this year (a new record), andthe resulting program reflects the high quality of research beingconducted on digital libraries in many disciplines. From 105 fullpapers and 80 short papers, the Program Committee selected 33 longpapers and 26 short papers for presentation and inclusion in theconference proceedings. To provide a conceptual framework, thepresentations and panels comprising the technical program have beenorganized into three tracks:>Digital Libraries and Cyberinfrastructure Track: These sessionshighlight the rich variety of roles that digital libraries continueto play in transforming research and education within the sciencesand the humanities. Sessions also focus on issues associated withbuilding digital libraries to transform practice in theseareas.>Users and Interaction Track: These sessions focus onunderstanding user needs, how people work and learn with digitallibrary technologies, and how innovative user interfaces andinteraction mechanisms can help people to better use and comprehenddigital library resources, collections, and services.>Tools and Techniques Track: These sessions focus on newarchitectures and frameworks for building digital libraries, aswell as discussing emerging algorithms and techniques for improvinginformation retrieval, automatic approaches for resource andcollection characterization, and applications of machine learningto a rich variety of digital library problems.>Each day of the conference includes a keynote address thatprovides context for and furthers the dialog about the role ofdigital libraries within the evolving framework of a nationalcyberinfrastructure.JCDL 2005 continues the tradition of supportingdigital library developers with eight tutorials that cover a rangeof important and timely issues including building and evaluatingdigital libraries and examining how ontologies, interoperabilityapproaches, standards, copyright and preservation are applied indeveloping and scaling digital libraries. The program also includesfive workshops, which provide a venue for a cross-section ofdisciplines to explore focused, cutting-edge topics such asinternational scientific data and standards; socio-technicalapproaches to evaluating digital libraries; providing contexts forlearning in educational digital libraries; and preparing libraryprofessionals to work in a digital library environment.>JCDL 2005 continues the tradition of supporting digital librarydevelopers with eight tutorials that cover a range of important andtimely issues including building and evaluating digital librariesand examining how ontologies, interoperability approaches,standards, copyright and preservation are applied in developing andscaling digital libraries. The program also includes fiveworkshops, which provide a venue for a cross-section of disciplinesto explore focused, cutting-edge topics such as internationalscientific data and standards; socio-technical approaches toevaluating digital libraries; providing contexts for learning ineducational digital libraries; and preparing library professionalsto work in a digital library environment.>The One-Minute Madness session provides a brief overview of 41posters and 15 demonstrations, which can be viewed during theposter reception and whose abstracts are included here. At the endof the reception, the Best Poster Award, sponsored by theUniversity of Arizona, will be presented.>The following awards will be presented during the ConferenceBanquet, to be held at the Denver Museum of Nature &Science:ulliVannevar Bush Best Paper Award(sponsored by ACM)/liliBest Student Paper Award(sponsored by IEEE-CS Technical Committee on DigitalLibraries)/liliBest International Paper Award(sponsored by the University ofArizona)./li/ul.