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We describe the participation and the official results of the 2nd Computational Linguistics Scientific Summarization Shared Task (CL-SciSumm), held as a part of the BIRNDL workshop at the Joint Conference for Digital Libraries 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. CL-SciSumm is the first medium-scale Shared Task on scientific document summarization in the computational linguistics (CL) domain. Participants were provided a training corpus of 30 topics, each comprising of a reference paper (RP) and 10 or more citing papers, all of which cite the RP. For each citation, the text spans (i.e., citances) that pertain to the RP have been identified. Participants solved three sub-tasks in automatic research paper summarization using this text corpus. Fifteen teams from six countries registered for the Shared Task, of which ten teams ultimately submitted and presented their results. The annotated corpus comprised 30 target papers—currently the largest available corpora of its kind. The corpus is available for free download and use at https://github.com/WING-NUS/scisumm-corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Tagung 'Vernetzte Welten' aus der Tagungsreihe 'Digitale Bibliothek' stellte die organisatorische und inhaltliche Kollaboration von Institutionen aus dem GLAM-Sektor in den thematischen Mittelpunkt: Referiert wurde u. a. über Metadaten und Pflege semantischer Datenstrukturen, Linked Open Data, Open Access und Nachnutzung von semantisch beschriebenen digitalen Objekten. Die Konferenz machte deutlich, dass hier eine bewusste Umorientierung stattgefunden hat, die das Öffnen der Institutionen und die Verbreitung und Vernetzung der kuratierten Objekte forciert. The conference 'Vernetzte Welten' from the Digital Library series focused on the collaboration of GLAM sector institutions, mainly on the subjects organization and content: Among other topics, reports were given on metadata and maintenance of semantic data structures, Linked Open Data, Open Access and reusing semantically described digital objects. The conference showed clearly that a deliberate reorientation has taken place which speeds up the opening of the institutions and the spreading and interlinking of objects that have undergone curation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference 2016. Speakers include University of Texas at Austin associate professor Dawna Ballard, Ashley Zmau and Holly Talbott of the University of Texas at Arlington, and Angela Sidman and Sara Tudesco of Yale University Library.

Information on The Personal Digital Archiving Conference hosted by the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program of the New York University (NYU) from April 24-26, 2015 is presented. Topics include the opening keynote regarding family album given by writer and producer Don Perry, the dissertation "How Online Sociality and Free Terabytes are Shaping Personal Digital Archives" presented by Jessica Bushey of the University of British Columbia, and the poster presentations about digitization.

The article presents a report from the March 1-2, 2018 "Zugang und Teilhabe im digitalen Wandel" conference of the Deutscher Bibliotheksverband library association in Berlin, Germany on social aspects of access to digital libraries.

The article presents a report from a June 19-20, 2017 public archives conference in Duisburg, Germany with a focus on archives online. Topics of presentations delivered included copyright law in online archives, website design for archive portals, and the e-arkiv municipal digital archive of Stockholm, Sweden.

During the International Conferences on Digital Libraries, several experts felt the need for a primary research journal in the field of digital libraries which will not only cover the knowledge network of global digital library experts, but also project Indian research on digital libraries, technologies and case studies. Thus, the journal World Digital Libraries (WDL) started in 2008. This paper describes the genesis of the WDL, coverage in terms of themes, contribution of authors, subscription and future projections of WDL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of the EBSCO Discovery Service User Group meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts from May 10 to 11, 2016. The event focused on information on libraries that have implemented EBSCO Discovery Service and future enhancements and customizations. Speakers include Drew Parker, a web services librarian at the University of Alabama, and Courtney McDonald, head of the Discovery and User Experience department at the Indiana University Libraries.

The article discusses the highlights of the second Institutional Repository Day held at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Speakers include Rick Anderson, associate dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, and Christy Shorey, manager of the University of Florida's Institutional Repository and Theses & Dissertations Program.

The article presents a report from the March 1-2, 2016 annual conference in Potsdam, Germany of the "Archivierung von Unterlagen aus digitalen Systemen" (AUdS) digital archives working group. Topics of presentations delivered included the use of the Pre Ingest Toolset software for structuring filesystems at the Bundesarchiv German national archives, the development of the file filtration and sorting software tool for archives at the startext GmbH company, and digitization of the collections of small archives.

Information on the fifth annual Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference that was held on October 20, 2015 on the future of libraries in the digital age, is presented. Topics discussed include information services, emerging technologies, innovation, and libraries, and the evolution of information and technology. The conference featured several speakers including professors Sandra Hirsh, Michael Stephens, and Tina Jagerson.

Purpose – This paper aims to present a report on the 2015 Charleston Conference. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on information gained at the conference. Findings – Areas covered are privacy, the importance of the article, open access and electronic resources. Originality/value – Conference of value to those interested in collection development, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a meeting on digital libraries that was sponsored by the Asian Library Association and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) that was held in IIM, Indore from April 14-16, 2016.

This is a report on the tenth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), which was held from July 9 to 13, 2018, and hosted by the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information for conferences on digital libraries including the Digital Book World conference to be held at New York City from March 7 to 9, 2016 and the JCDL 2016: Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation conference to be held at Newark, New Jersey from June 19 to 23, 2016.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the preservation of artworks, the issues involving digitization and preservation of form-instant photographs, and the Personal Digital Archiving Conference at the New York University.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the best-received research at the 2013 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries on topics such as the use of potential citation papers in evaluating scholarly paper, and a topic modeling approach for annotation of automatic document.