Program Chairs' Welcome

摘要

Welcome to the 13th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2013. It has been our pleasure to work with the Program Committee and with our colleagues on the Organizing Committee to build a program for this year's conference consistent with JCDL's long-standing reputation for high quality. JCDL remains the premier international forum for exploring research, practice, and social issues in digital libraries. The Program Committee has selected a diverse array of papers, panels, posters and demonstrations that illustrate both the breadth and depth of ongoing digital library scholarship. Some themes explored in this year's 13 sessions of full and short papers are familiar from JCDLs of the recent past (e.g., Digital Preservation, Metadata, Name Entity Extraction) and some themes are new this year, reflecting emerging and shifting foci of interest (e.g., Information Ranking, Information Clustering, Specialist DLs, Historical DLs).