Program at a Glance

8:00am-12:00pm

• Introduction to Digital Libraries. (Edward A. Fox)

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Tutorial 3

• Improving Search and Retrieval in Digital Libraries by Leveraging Keyphrase Extraction Systems. (Wei Jin and Corina Florescu)

Workshop 1

• Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Libraries and Archives: Integrating Data Management, Analysis, and Publication. (Weijia Xu, Maria Esteva, and Jessica Trelogan)

Doctoral consortium

• Introduction to Digital Humanities. (Luis Meneses and Richard Furuta)

• Introduction to Machine Learning for Digital Library Applications. (Rodney Nielsen)

• Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Libraries and Archives: Integrating Data Management, Analysis, and Publication. (Weijia Xu, Maria Esteva, and Jessica Trelogan)

8:30am-10:00am

• Announcements
• Keynote speech: We Have Interesting Problems: Some Applied Grand Challenges from Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums. (Trevor Owens)

10:30am-12:00pm

Session 1A:

Use

• Long paper: Understanding the Position of Information Professionals with regards to Linked Data: A Survey of Libraries, Archives, and Museums. (Lucy Mckenna, Christophe Debruyne, and Declan O'Sullivan)
• Short paper: The role of pre-existing highlights in reader–text interactions and outcomes. (Samuel Dodson, Luanne Freund, and Rick Kopak)
• Short paper: Evaluating Saccade-Bounded Eye Movement Features for the User Interest Modeling. (Sampath Jayarathna and Sobiga Shanmugathasan)
• Short paper: Interaction on an Academic Social Networking Sites: A Study of ResearchGate Q&A on Library and Information Science. (Shengli Deng, Jingjing Tong, and Shaoxiong Fu) 

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Session 1B:

Collection Building

• Long paper: Impact of Crowdsourcing OCR Improvements on Retrievability Bias. (Myriam Traub, Thaer Samar, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman)
• Short paper: Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection. (Pamela Andrews, Karen Harker, and Ana Krahmer)
• Short paper: Computer-Assisted Crowd Transcription of the U.S. Census with Personalized Assignments for Better Accuracy and Participation. (Douglas J. Kennard)
• Short paper: Prioritizing and Scheduling Conferences for Metadata Harvesting in dblp. (Mandy Neumann, Christopher Michels, Philipp Schaer, and Ralf Schenkel)

Session 1C:

Semantics and Linking

• Long paper: Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context. (Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Laura Dietz)
• Long paper: Investigating Entity Linking in Early English Legal Documents. (Gary Munnelly and Seamus Lawless)
• Long paper: An Analysis of Cross-Document Linking Mechanisms. (Ahmed Tayeh and Beat Signer)

1:30pm-3:00pm

Session 2A:

Collection Access and Indexing

• Long paper: Putting Dates on the Map: Harvesting and Analyzing Street Names with Date Mentions and their Explanations. (Jannik Strötgen, Rosita Andrade and Dhruv Gupta)
• Long paper: Contextualised Browsing in a Digital Library's Living Lab. (Zeljko Carevic, Sascha Schüller, Philipp Mayr and Norbert Fuhr)

Session 2B:

Panel 1

• At the Nexus of Data and Collections: New Affordances in the Age of Mass‐Scale Digital Libraries. (J. Stephen Downie, Elizabeth Lorang, Lian-Kit Soh, David Bainbridge, Sandra McIntyre, and Kevin Page)

Session 3A:

Citation Analysis

• Long paper: A Comparison of Approaches for Bibliographic Reference Parsing in the Context of a Business Use Case. (Dominika Tkaczyk, Andrew Collins, Paraic Sheridan, and Joeran Beel)
• Long paper: Linked Open Citation Database: How much would it cost if Libraries Cataloged and Curated the Citation Graph? (Anne Lauscher, Kai Eckert, Lukas Galke, Ansgar Scherp, Syed Tahseen Raza Rizvi, Sheraz Ahmed, Andreas Dengel, Philipp Zumstein, and Annette Klein)

Session 3B:

Scientific Collections and Libraries I

• Short paper: Building a Theoretical Framework for the Development of Digital Scholarship Services in China's Universities. (Lihong Zhou, Xinyu Lu, and Tim Zijlstra)
• Short paper: Formula Ranking within an Article. (Ke Yuan, Liangcai Gao, Zhuoren Jiang, and Zhi Tang)
• Short paper: Ranking Scientific Papers and Venues in Heterogeneous Academic Networks by Mutual Reinforcement. (Fang Zhang and Shengli Wu)

Session 3C:

Multimedia Retrieval

• Long paper: An Adaptive Image-based Plagiarism Detection Approach. (Norman Meuschke, Christopher Gondek, Daniel Seebacher, Corinna Breitinger, Daniel Keim, and Bela Gipp)
• Short paper: Extending Multiple Diagram Navigation with Internal Diagram And Collection Connections. (Hisham Benotman and David Maier)

• Reception at UNT Health Center
• Poster and Demo Session

8:30am-10:00am

• Keynote speech: Improving Research Outcomes Leveraging Digital Libraries, Advanced Computing, and Data. (Niall Gaffney)

10:30am-12:00pm

Session 4A:

Quality and Preservation

• Long paper: Evaluation of Conformance Checkers for Long-Term Preservation of Multimedia Documents. (Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello, Erik Bruelink, Boris Doubrov, Antonella Fresa, Magnus Geber, Klas Jadeglans, Börje Justrell, Bert Lemmens, Jerôme Martinez, Víctor Muñoz, Sònia Oliveras, Claudio Prandoni, Dave Rice, Stefan Rohde-Enslin, Xavi Tarrés, Erwin Verbruggen, Benjamin Yousefi and Carl Wilson)
• Long paper: Ranking Archived Documents for Structured Queries on Semantic Layers. (Pavlos Fafalios, Vaibhav Kasturia, and Wolfgang Nejdl)
• Short paper: Modeling Author Contribution Rate With Blockchain. (Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Pozi, Gopinath Muruthi, Adam Jatowt, and Yukiko Kawain)

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Session 4B:

Text Collections

• Long paper: Using Deep Learning For Title-Based Semantic Subject Indexing To Reach Competitive Performance to Full Text. (Florian Mai, Lukas Galke, and Ansgar Scherp)
• Short paper: Social Tagging: Organic and Retroactive Folksonomies. (Chris Holstrom)
• Long paper: A Query Algebra for Temporal Text Corpora. (Jens Willkomm, Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Martin Schäler, Michael Schefczyk and Klemens Böhm)

Session 4C:

Panel 2

• The Quill Project: Designing a research platform for engaged learning. (Nicholas Cole, Robert Johnson, Rodney Smith, Carl Scott, and Samuel Cory)

1:30pm-3:00pm

Session 5A:

Exploring and analyzing collections

• Long paper: How it Happened:  Discovering and Archiving the Evolution of a Story Using Social Signals. (Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas, and Serge-Eric Tremblay)
• Long paper: Keep it Simple: Effective Unsupervised Author Disambiguation with Relative Frequencies. (Tobias Backes)
• Long paper: Digital History meets Microblogging: Analyzing Collective Memories in Twtter. (Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt, and Marten During)

Session 5B:

Scientific Collections and Libraries II

• Long paper: Extracting Scientific Figures with Distantly Supervised Neural Networks. (Noah Siegel, Nicholas Lourie, Russell Power, and Waleed Ammar)
• Long paper: Improving the Representation and Conversion of Mathematical Formulae by Considering their Textual Context. (Moritz Schubotz, André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Norman Meuschke, Howard Cohl and Bela Gipp)
• Long paper: Citation Recommendation Using Distributed Representation of Discourse Facets in Scientific Articles. (Yuta Kobayashi, Masashi Shimbo, and Yuji Matsumoto)

Session 5C:

Archiving

• Long paper: Biography, Ephemera, and the Future of Social Media Archiving. (Catherine Marshall)
• Long paper: Scraping SERPs for archival seeds: it matters when you start. (Alexander Nwala, Michele Weigle, and Michael Nelson)
• Long paper: A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives. (Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle)

Session 6A:

Topic Modeling and Detection

• Long paper: My Approach = Your Apparatus? Entropy-Based Topic Modeling on Multiple Domain-Specific Text Collections. (Julian Risch and Ralf Krestel)
• Long paper: WELDA: Enhancing Topic Models by Incorporating Local Word Context. (Stefan Bunk and Ralf Krestel)
• Long paper: AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics. (Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, and Enrico Motta)

Session 6B:

Panel 3

• Can Research Librarians Make Contributions to Decision-making as Intelligence Analysts? The Prospects and Challenges. (Wei Chen, Jiangping Chen, Christopher Erdmann, Trevor Owens, Tao Jin, Mark Phillips)

Dinner at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History(No Speaker, announcements and awards)

8:30am-10:00am

• Keynote speech: Open Source Tech for Scholarly Communication: Why It Matters. (Carly Strasser)

10:30am-5:00pm

Workshop 2

• Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries. (Martin Klein, Zhiwu Xie, and Edward Fox) 

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Workshop 3

• Workshop on Image Collections: Creation, Organization, Access, and Use. (Wei Lu, Jevin West, Brian O’connor, Krystyna Matusiak, Qinghua Zhu, Jason Lu, and Jiangping Chen)

Workshop 4

• Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries. (Hui Shi, Wu He, and Guandong Xu)

Workshop 5

• Workshop on Curative Power of Medical Data (MEDA 2018). (Daniela Gifu, Diana Trandabat, Kevin Cohen, and Jingbo Xia)