iSchool researchers to present at JCDL 2026

iSchool students and faculty will be well represented at this year's ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, held in Dallas from Oct. 13–16. JCDL is an international forum focused on research and practice in digital libraries, bringing together researchers and practitioners from computer science, information science, librarianship, archival and museum studies, and diverse domains including technology, medicine, social sciences, law, and the humanities.

Professor Jiangping Chen serves as one of three general chairs for the conference, and Professor J. Stephen Downie chairs the steering committee and will be speaking during opening remarks on Oct. 14. 

A day-by-day look at iSchool presentations at JCDL:

Oct. 13:

• PhD student Malik Salami will present his paper, "Toward Contextual Mentorship Inference: Bibliometric Modeling and LLM-informed Reasoning over Scholarly Publication Metadata," during the Doctoral Consortium.

Oct. 14:

• Affiliate Professor ChengXiang Zhai will deliver the keynote address, "The Future of Digital Libraries: Serving Humans and Artificial Intelligence Agents."
• Chen will chair a paper session, "Knowledge Graphs and Knowledge Extraction."
• Assistant Professor Kahyun Choi will chair a paper session, "Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Research Data."
• Salami will chair a paper session, "Metadata and Knowledge Organization."
• PhD student Jim Hahn will present a paper in that session, "Algorithmic BIBFRAME and Social Signaling."

Oct. 15

• Chen will chair the keynote session, "Design for Information Farmers: Digital Libraries as Seeds for Cultivating Knowledge," and co-present a poster, "GLOBAL ARCHIGRAPHY: A Collaborative Digital Platform for Lusophone and Anglophone Architectural Photographs."
• Downie will co-present two posters: "Identifying English-Language Translations in a Large Digital Library," with PhD student Sarah Griebel and Glen Layne-Worthey, associate director for research support services for the HathiTrust Research Center, and "Accessibility Annotations as OCR Ground Truth: A Large-Scale Corpus of Long, Visually Complex Documents," with PhD student Gaozheng Liu and Assistant Professor Jill Naiman.
• Choi and PhD student You Peng will co-present a paper, "Poem Boundary Identification Without Full-Text Access: Five-Class Classification Using HathiTrust Extracted Features."
• Associate Professor Vetle Torvik and Salami will co-present a paper, "Can LLMs Identify Advisor-Advisee Relationships in Coauthorship Network Based on Publication Metadata?"

Oct. 16:

• BSIS+DS student Yuxing Yang will present "Recovering the Source of AI-Transformed Text: Retrieval and Residual Traces in a Digital Collection" in the poster session.