Affiliated Organization News, September 2025
Inaugural Conference of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON2025)
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the inaugural SEASON conference (Search Engines and Society Network), taking place 24-25 September 2025 at HAW Hamburg, Germany.
SEASON is a new international forum for researchers, practitioners, and activists critically engaging with the roles of search engines and algorithmic technologies in society. It aims to build community across disciplines and create space for shared reflection on search as both infrastructure and cultural force.
The two-day program features:
- 2 Keynotes
- 20 Long Presentations
- 10 Short Presentations
- 17 Posters
- 2 Interactive Sessions
Topics include:
• Search engine bias and algorithmic visibility
• Generative AI in search
• Information disorders and disinformation
• Regulation, policy, and platformisation
• Everyday search practices and infrastructures
• Critical and creative approaches to search …and much more.
Register for SEASON 2025 here: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=season2025
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/
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
ACM CHIIR 2026 & Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
The ACM CHIIR Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students working in the areas of user-centered approaches to the design and evaluation of systems for information access, retrieval, and use to present and discuss their research with experienced researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. We welcome submissions representing a broad spectrum of research topics relevant to the CHIIR community, including research on information (seeking and searching) behaviour (IB), human-computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR).
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) focuses on advising students regarding their research. In addition, the DC enables students to establish a supportive community, including other doctoral students working in related areas or at a similar stage of their dissertation research.
The Doctoral Consortium targets students roughly halfway through their Ph.D. program. At a minimum, students should have formulated their research problem, suggested methods, and, at a maximum, to have submitted some of the early Ph.D. work for publication. The Doctoral Consortium is inappropriate for students nearly finished with their Ph.D. work.
Accepted DC student participants will be encouraged to apply for ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grants to assist with their travel to CHIIR 2026. More information about the travel awards will be provided closer to the conference.
Note: the CHIIR 2026 Doctoral Consortium will be an in-person event only.
*** Important dates ***
Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: November 5th, 2025 (AoE)
Notification: December 10th, 2025
Conference and Doctoral Consortium: 22 – 26 March, 2026
Please also see the following for submission instructions: https://chiir2026.github.io/dc-paper.html
Kick off ASIS&T in DC with a Free Hybrid Indigenous Edit-a-thon
Looking for a free, collaborative way to start your ASIS&T Annual Meeting week? Join us for the IndigenizeSNAC Edit-a-thon! The in-person component of our IndigenizeSNAC Edit-a-thon is officially OPEN! Register Here!
Hosted at the Library at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
750 9th St NW, Washington, DC--Metro accessible (Gallery Place-Chinatown station)
November 14, 2025, 11 am - 5 pm
As an alternative for the first day events/workshops of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA, this edit-a-thon is open to ALL. This particular edit-a-thon will have an Indigenous focus and objectives relating to some technical and editorial projects that have occurred, such as expansions and implementations of thesauri and controlled concepts modules. The aim of this Indigenous SNAC edit-a-thon is to improve discovery of Indigenous archival material that has been dispersed to multiple repositories, and to continue exploring best practices around entities in SNAC for Indigenous, Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or First Nations individuals and Nations, as well as for colonial actors and institutions whose records hold relevance for Indigenous researchers.
No prior experience participating in an edit-a-thon or working with the SNAC platform is required, but we are also hosting a series of SNACSchool Events this Summer and Fall to get your prepared! Registration is open for all of those events and information can be found HERE.
Can't make it to DC? You can still register for your virtual component HERE.
Entrelib International 2025, free & online (Nov. 19-20)
Registration is now open for the free and online Entrepreneurship & Libraries Conference International 2025: https://entrelib.org/
The theme is "How Libraries and Librarians around the World Support Entrepreneurship in their Communities and Campuses". Hear public, special, and academic librarians from four countries share their insights, and participate in our moderated networking discussions.
ISIC 2026: The Information Seeking in Context Conference (ISIC)
The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference is the academic home of the Information Behaviour research community. The biennial conference focuses on contextualized information activities, expressed in different forms such as Information Behaviour, Information Practice, Information Seeking, Information Experience and others.
ISIC conferences promote the interdisciplinary study of information research influenced by fields such as information science, information studies, library studies, communication studies, computer science, education, information management, information systems, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. ISIC is a conference for research papers exploring information as a rich site of study, going beyond a sole focus on technological aspects and exploring a wide variety of contexts.
Where & When? ISIC 2026 will be in Montréal, Canada and hosted by McGill University. The dates of the conference are 1-4 June* 2026. The dates of the conference have been changed to be more inclusive.
Paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions are due October 15 2025 (extended). The submission system for ISIC 2026 is now open! You can find it under 'Submit' on the ISIC 2026 webpage.
Please note that the submission templates are posted under 'Call for Papers' on the webpage along with the full instructions and that information about the Doctoral workshop is now available under 'Call for Papers' on the webpage