Aims and scope

The International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) examines the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, preservation, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It covers all aspects of digital libraries (DLs), from large-scale heterogeneous data and information management & access to linking and connectivity to security, privacy and policies, to its application, use, and evaluation.

The scope of IJDL includes, but is not limited to:

    The FAIR principle and the digital libraries infrastructure
        Findable: Information access and retrieval; semantic search; data and information exploration; information navigation; smart indexing and searching; resource discovery
        Accessible: visualization and digital collections; user interfaces; interfaces for handicapped users; HCI and UX in DLs; Security and privacy in DLs; multimodal access
        Interoperable: metadata (definition, management, curation, integration); syntactic and semantic interoperability; linked data
        Reusable: reproducibility; Open Science; sustainability, profitability, repeatability of research results; confidentiality and privacy issues in DLs
        Digital Library Architectures, including heterogeneous and dynamic data management; data and repositories
    Acquisition of digital information: authoring environments for digital objects; digitization of traditional content
    Digital Archiving and Preservation
        Digital Preservation and curation
        Digital archiving
        Web Archiving
        Archiving and preservation Strategies
    AI for Digital Libraries
        Machine Learning for DLs
        Data Mining in DLs
        NLP for DLs
    Applications of Digital Libraries
        Digital Humanities
        Open Data and their reuse
        Scholarly DLs (incl. bibliometrics, altmetrics)
        Epigraphy and Paleography
        Digital Museums
    Future trends in Digital Libraries
        Definition of DLs in a ubiquitous digital library world
        Datafication of digital collections
    Interaction and user experience (UX) in DLs 
        Information visualization
        Collection understanding
        Privacy and security
        Multimodal user interfaces
        Accessibility (or "Access for users with disabilities")
        UX studies