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Some 240 experts from the field of Digital Libraries gathered in Hannover // Best Paper Award and Best Poster Award conferred
HANNOVER, 15 September 2016 – The L3S Research Centre and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) jointly hosted the Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) in Hannover from 5 to 9 September 2016. Some 240 experts and decision-makers from the field of Digital Libraries gathered at this year’s conference. Under the title “Overcoming the Limits of Digital Archives”, participants from 34 countries exchanged information and ideas on current and future developments in the area of digital libraries and archives, and their applications. In addition to numerous presentations and discussions, TPDL 2016 also offered tutorials, workshops and poster presentations on topics such as “Digital Library Design”, “User Aspects”, “Multimedia and Time Aspects” and “Web Archives”. There were also special interdisciplinary application tracks on “Digital Humanities” and “e-Infrastructures”. At its stand, TIB presented its AV Portal for scientific videos from the fields of science and technology as well as its supraregional document delivery services.
Best Paper Award and Best Poster Award conferred
The Best Paper Award at TPDL went to the paper entitled “The ‘Nomenclature of Multidimensionality’ in the Digital Libraries Evaluation Domain”, which had been submitted by Leonidas Papachristopoulos, Giannis Tsakonas (University of Patras, Greece) and Michalis Sfakakis, Nikos Kleidis and Christos Papatheodorou (Ionian University, Greece). The Best Poster Award at TPDL was won by Joffery Decourselle (LIRIS, France) for his poster entitled “Case-oriented Semantic Enrichment of Bibliographic Entities”.
The 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 17 to 21 September 2017 (http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2017/).
More information about TPDL 2016: http://www.tpdl2016.org/
About TIB
The Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover is the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library. As the German national library for all areas of engineering, as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics, it provides in its specialist fields national and international researchers and industry practitioners and – as a University Library – students, researchers and teaching staff from all faculties of Leibniz Universität Hannover as well as interested local citizens with literature and information in both printed and electronic form. As the world’s largest specialised library in its subject areas, TIB has outstanding collections of fundamental and highly specialised literature on science and technology. In order to optimise the services it offers, TIB conducts applied research and development. TIB is a public-law foundation of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. It is a member of the Leibniz Association.
https://www.tib.eu/en – More information about the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology
http://www.l3s.de – More information about L3S Research Center
Giannis Tsakonas, winner of the Best Paper Award, Thomas Risse from L3S Research Centre and General ...
Source: C. Behrens
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