Importance of Research Excellence within the Digital Library Community

Research excellence plays a crucial role in the development of digital libraries, providing innovative solutions to enhance accessibility, efficiency, and the overall impact of knowledge management systems. The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award serves as a beacon of excellence, recognizing the contributions of researchers whose work advances the field of digital libraries. By honoring such research, the award emphasizes the importance of high-quality, impactful scholarship in shaping the future of digital information systems.

Objectives

  1. Promote Research Excellence: The award celebrates outstanding research papers presented at JCDL 2024 that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in digital libraries.
  2. Support Academic Engagement: MDPI’s sponsorship provides an opportunity for researchers to showcase their work and gain recognition in the academic community.
  3. Foster Professional Development: The sponsorship encourages students and professionals to hone their presentation and communication skills, contributing to their growth in the field.

Award Details

Award Criteria: The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award recognizes papers that present novel ideas and demonstrate expert execution. Winning authors receive an official certificate and share a US$1,000 prize.

Presentation of the Award: The award will be presented at JCDL 2024, with a representative from MDPI assigned to present the award certificate to the winners.

Certificates: Each winning paper will be issued a certificate of recognition for their outstanding achievement in research.

MDPI’s Role in Sponsorship

MDPI’s journals, Digital and Algorithms, are the proud sponsors of the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award. Through this sponsorship, MDPI contributes to the advancement of research in digital libraries and promotes open-access scholarship.

Additional Information

The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award ceremony will take place during JCDL 2024. More details on the exact timing and award presentation will be shared closer to the event.

Award Nominees

Vannevar Bush Best Papers (nominees)

  1. Award Winner! Priyangshu Datta, Suchana Datta and Dwaipayan Roy. “RAGing Against the Literature: LLM-Powered Dataset Mention Extraction”
  2. Jiachun Wu and Ke Dong. “Unveiling Theoretical and Methodological Awareness in China’s LIS Research Landscape”
  3. Kotaro Yasuda, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Yukiko Takeuchi, Akihiro Shibayama and Israel Mendonça. “Disaster Image Tagging Using Generative Al for Digital Archives”

Best Short Papers (nominees)

  1. Award Winner! Madhurima Deb, Isabel Beckenbach, Matteo Petrera, Dariush Ehsani, Marcel Fuhrmann, Yun Hao, Olaf Teschke and Moritz Schubotz. “An Overview of zbMATH Open Digital Library”
  2. Luca Sala, Giovanni Sullutrone, Sonia Bergamaschi and Ricardo Amerigo Vigliermo. “Arabic Text Enhancement with GPT for Digital Librarie”
  3. Cuiyu Qin, Qingyu Duan and Xiaoguang Wang. “Exploring the Action Path of Data Practices in Research Context: An Activity Theory Perspective”