Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural and governmental and industry activities. For this purpose, the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as development of digital libraries, solving practical problems, accommodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user communities. The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. Information providers interlink their metadata with user-contributed data and offer new services out looking for the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges. The 20th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) held in Hannover, Germany, during September 5–9, 2016, had the general theme of “Overcoming the limits of Digital Archives” and focused on the major areas: “Connecting digital libraries,” “Practice of digital libraries,” “Digital libraries in science” and “Users, communities, and personal data.” In addition, specialized track on “Digital Humanities,” “eInfrastructures” and “Creativity and Multimedia Libraries” were presented. All submissions to the conference were independently reviewed on the basis of peer review process. A Senior Program Committee member subsequently coordinated a discussion among the reviewers. The selection stage that followed compared the paper evaluations and finalized the conference program. Eight papers with the highest score and

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第20届数字图书馆理论与实践国际会议（TPDL 2016）聚焦问题简介

科学，教育，文化，政府和行业活动的所有领域都创建或转换了宝贵且快速增长的数据量。为此，数字图书馆界已经制定了长期的跨学科研究议程，提供了重要成果，例如数字图书馆的开发，解决实际问题，容纳研究数据并满足特定用户群体的需求。增强具有丰富语义的信息交换的技术的出现在社区中引起了特别的兴趣。信息提供商将其元数据与用户提供的数据链接在一起，并提供新服务，以寻求开发数据网络并解决互操作性和长期保存挑战。2016年9月5日至9日在德国汉诺威举行的第20届国际数字图书馆理论与实践国际会议（TPDL）的主题为“克服数字档案馆的局限性”，重点关注主要领域：“连接数字图书馆”，“数字图书馆的实践”，“科学数字图书馆”和“用户，社区和个人数据”。此外，还介绍了关于“数字人文学科”，“电子基础设施”和“创意和多媒体图书馆”的专题。在同行评审过程的基础上，对会议的所有提交文件均进行了独立审查。随后，一位高级计划委员会成员协调了审阅者之间的讨论。随后的选择阶段比较了论文评估结果并确定了会议计划。