Affiliated Organization News, May 2025
Inaugural Conference of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON2025)
On behalf of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON), we invite you to attend the inaugural conference of the network, to be held at HAW Hamburg, Germany, 24th – 25th September 2025.
SEASON is an annual conference that explores the multifaceted role of search engines in today's culture and society. SEASON brings together researchers from different fields and fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration to deepen our understanding of search engines as cultural, societal, and technical artefacts, as well as how they are used in various practices.
Click here for information on conference theme, submission guidelines, and more.
If you have any queries or questions, please contact programme chair Olof Sundin (olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se), or one of the local chairs, Dirk Lewandowski (dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de) and Sebastian Schultheiß (sebastian.schultheiss@haw-hamburg.de).
DCMI 2025 - October 22-25, University of Barcelona, Spain
The Twenty-Third International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications of The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI 2025)
"(Meta)data at the Core: Bridging Human Knowledge and AI Innovation"
October 22-25 (main conference), University of Barcelona, Spain
Conference website: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2025/
Submission types to include: Full Papers, Short Papers, Panels, Workshops, Posters, Project Reports, Student Forums, Tutorials, Best Practices, and Talks.
DCMI 2025 serves as a unique platform for the discussion of "innovative research and practice" - presenting visions for future metadata development and solutions to practical metadata problems.
Please watch out for the full Call for Participation and Submission as well as deadlines for submissions, which will be announced soon.
TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
TPDL is an international forum focused on Digital Libraries, Document Analysis/Recognition, and Information Retrieval and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, embracing the whole spectrum of the GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, and Museum) community; information access and operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Read more here.
Research Applications in Information and Library Studies 2025 Conference- Charles Sturt University
We would like to share the call for participation in the RAILS 2025 Conference, hosted by Charles Sturt University's School of Information and Communication Studies. RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) is the premier Australasian conference for researchers, practitioners, and educators in information studies, librarianship, archives, and related fields. Since 2004, it has promoted innovative research and its practical application.
The 2025 conference, themed Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future, will be held in person over three days and will include the Australasian Information Educators' Symposium (AIES), and Doctoral Consortium.
Conference Details:
Dates: Monday, 3 November to Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Location: Charles Sturt University Sydney Campus, North Sydney, Australia
Conference Website: https://railsconference.wordpress.com/
We encourage researchers, educators, and practitioners in library and information studies to share their research and insights. Full submission instructions are available on the conference website. There are different submission types you can choose from.
Key Dates:
Notification of Acceptance: 11 July 2025
Registration Opens: 1 July 2025
Early Bird Registration Deadline: 1 September 2025
The deadline for submissions to NKOS Workshop 2025, to be held in Tampere, Finland, as part of TPDL 2025, is extended to June 12. The full call for presentations is available at https://nkos.dublincore.org/2025NKOSworkshop/NKOS2025CFP.html
Please submit your extended abstract (max 1000 words) to both the following addresses:
koraljka.golub@lnu.se, claudio.gnoli@unipv.it
You are invited to a webinar commemorating World Refugee Day 2025 (June 20). The webinar will highlight the recently published IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: Refugees, Migrants, Immigrants, Asylum seekers (December 2024) and complemented by presentations on international experiences and/or research on providing library and information services to refugees and other displaced persons, with commentary on how the Guidelines are/may inform their work.
Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: International Guidelines (IFLA) and Global Experiences
Tuesday, May 27, 11am-12:15 pm CT/Chicago (12-1:15pm ET / 6-7:15pm Poland/Netherlands / 7-8:15 pm Greece - Check local time at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/)
Register to receive the Zoom link at https://go.illinois.edu/WRD
Webinar June 10th: Celebrating 30 Years of Information Research
We are delighted to announce that our special anniversary Issue of Information Research has now been published on our website. Please feel free to read this at https://publicera.kb.se/ir/
The celebrations will continue with a special 30th anniversary webinar, to be held on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025, at 1 pm UK time, via Zoom.
This event will include a keynote address by Professor Tom Wilson about his perspective about his role as an early innovator in scholarly publication, and his research generally.
In addition, we will have a round table discussion about the papers in this issue, covering Professor Tom Wilson's contributions to the field of information science, and 30 years of our unique journal, Information Research.
You are all very welcome to attend. Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required, and will close on June 4th. You can easily register to the event here. A zoom link to the webinar will be emailed to you upon registration.
What's New in AON?
- CFP: DCMI 2025 - October 22-22, University of Barcelona
- Call for Papers: TEL Special Issue on "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Information Services"
- Calling students to apply for the Libri Best Student Research Paper Award 2025 (Deadline: June 30, 2025)
- Call for papers: TEL Special Issue on "Application of AI/ML in Large-scale Digital Archive Collections"