This special issueof International Journal onDigitalLibraries (IJDL) brings together a selection of notable papers nominated for the two best paper awards—theVannevar BushBest Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award—at the 2017 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference onDigital Libraries (JCDL 2017). JCDL is an annual international interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners in the field of digital libraries to share their progress on associated technical, practical, and social issues. The seventeenth Joint Conference on Digital Libraries was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from June 19–23, 2017. Because the field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as collections grow in size, diversity, and online accessibility, this year’s theme highlights working at scale: developing novel analytical tools and methodologies for making sense of large, heterogeneous collections, for deriving diverse kinds of knowledge, and for linking across different collections and research disciplines. As our field matures, we are striving to improve outreach efforts, engage diverse communities, and provide a broad range of users with effective and flexible access to materials, along with the ability to make new observations and discoveries. A search on the hashtag#jcdl2017will retrieve real-time commentary and photos from the conference. As best papers, the articles in this special issue of IJDL have been through a particularly rigorous review process. In their initial form as conference papers, the submissions were peer-reviewed by three experts in the authors’ specialty, discussed at a two-day in-person program committee meeting,

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2017 ACM / IEEE-CS数字图书馆联合会议JCDL 2017聚焦问题简介

这期《国际数字图书馆杂志》（IJDL）特刊汇集了在2017年ACM / IEEE-CS数字图书馆联合会议（JCDL 2017）上获得两项最佳论文奖提名的著名论文精选-范内瓦尔·布什最佳论文奖和最佳学生论文奖。 ）。JCDL是一年一度的国际跨学科会议，它将数字图书馆领域的研究人员，开发人员和从业人员聚集在一起，分享他们在相关技术，实践和社会问题上的进步。第十七届数字图书馆联合会议于2017年6月19日至23日在加拿大安大略省多伦多市举行。由于馆藏的规模，多样性和在线可访问性的增长，数字图书馆领域发生了巨大变化，因此今年的主题突出了工作大规模：开发新颖的分析工具和方法，以理解大型的异构馆藏，推导各种知识以及跨不同馆藏和研究学科进行链接。随着我们领域的成熟，我们正在努力改善宣传工作，与多元化的社区互动，并为广泛的用户提供有效且灵活的资料访问渠道，以及进行新观察和发现的能力。在主题标签＃jcdl2017上进行搜索将检索会议的实时评论和照片。作为最佳论文，IJDL特刊中的文章经过了特别严格的审查过程。在最初的形式作为会议论文时，作者的专业领域的三位专家对论文进行了同行评审，