School of Information Sciences

GSLIS to make strong showing at JCDL 2015

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will present their research at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held at the University of Tennessee on June 21-25. The event brings together international scholars focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The goal is to provide a forum for shared learning and facilitate the application of knowledge for research, development, construction, and utilization in digital libraries.

Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie will present the conference's closing keynote, "The HathtiTrust Research Center: Providing Analytic Access to the HathiTrust Digital Library's 4.7 Billion Pages."

Papers presented at JCDL 2015 include:

"MapAffil: A Bibliographic Tool for Mapping Author Affiliation Strings to Cities and their Geocodes Worldwide."
By Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik. Presented at the International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, held at JCDL on June 24.

"Improving Consistency of Crowdsourced Multimedia Similarity for Evaluation."
By doctoral candidate Peter Organisciak and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"Improving Access to Large-scale Digital Libraries through Semantic-enhanced Search and Disambiguation."
Authors include Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"The Problem of 'Additional Content'."
Authors include doctoral student Jacob Jett.

"An Ontological Framework for Describing Games."
By Research Associate Professor David Dubin and doctoral student Jacob Jett.

"Building Complex Research Collections in Digital Libraries: A Survey of Ontology Implications."
Authors include doctoral student Jacob Jett, data analysis consultant Chris Maden, GSLIS-affiliated Professor Timothy Cole, master’s student Colleen Fallaw, Senior Project Coordinator for Research Services Megan Senseney, and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

"Topic Modeling Users' Interpretations of Songs to Inform Subject Access in Music Digital Libraries."
Authors include doctoral students Kahyun Choi and Craig Willis, and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie.

Updated on
Backto the news archive

Related News

Course partnership leads to new escape room for IGB's Mobile Learning Lab

Each fall, an interdisciplinary team of students at the University of Illinois comes together to create an escape room. The class project is the culmination of a collaboration between two courses: Designing Immersive Adventures – Escape Rooms (Theatre 402/Game Studies and Design 490) and Makerspace – Escape Rooms (Informatics 418). 

Students outside the IGB Mobile Learning Lab

PhD student Meng Li wins iSchool T-shirt design contest

PhD student Meng Li's research focuses on neuro-symbolic AI, with an emphasis on using syntactic analysis and large language models (LLMs) to understand Python notebooks. This cutting-edge research keeps Li "super busy" for much of the term, but in August, she took a brief break from her work and shifted her focus to designing the winning entry for the iSchool T-shirt contest.

While the idea of the design "just popped into my mind," Li has been thinking about the contest for years.

Meng Li wears the T-shirt with her winning design. The shirt is dark blue, with a hand-sketched wave in white, while the figure and surf board are in Illini Orange.

Jiang defends dissertation

PhD candidate Xiaoliang Jiang successfully defended his dissertation, "Identifying Place Names in Scientific Writing Based on Language Models, Linked Data, and Metadata," on November 10. 

Xiaoliang Jiang

Paper by He's lab honored at ICCV 2025 workshop

Professor Jingrui He's lab received an outstanding paper award at the Multi-Modal Reasoning for Agentic Intelligence Workshop, which was held during the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025) last month in Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Jingrui He

Vaez Afshar named APT Student Scholar

Informatics PhD student Sepehr Vaez Afshar has been named a Student Scholar by The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT). Each year, around ten students are selected worldwide for the scholarship program based on the quality and innovation of their research abstracts, as well as their contribution to the field of preservation technology. Scholars are paired with mentors from the APT College of Fellows, prepare and present their research during the association's annual conference, and enjoy opportunities for long-term professional networking and mentorship within the preservation community.

Sepehr Vaez Afshar

School of Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St.

MC-493

Champaign, IL

61820-6211

Voice: (217) 333-3280

Fax: (217) 244-3302

Email: ischool@illinois.edu

Back to top