CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

TPDL 2026

DAY 1 – September 22

Workshops and Doctoral Consortium

Time
Auditorium 1.5
Auditorium 1.4
11:00–11:30
Registration and Coffee Break
 
11:30–13:00
Doctoral Consortium
13:00–14:30
Lunch Break
 
14:30–16:00
Workshop: Bias in GLAM: From Data Creation to Algorithmic Access
Workshop: InfoVis-DL — Information Visualization in Digital Libraries: Multi-modal Applications to Cultural Heritage Collections
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break
 
16:30–17:30
Workshop: Bias in GLAM: From Data Creation to Algorithmic Access
Workshop: InfoVis-DL — Information Visualization in Digital Libraries: Multi-modal Applications to Cultural Heritage Collections
DAY 2 – September 23

Main Conference · Opening Day

Time
Auditorium 1.5
Auditorium 1.4
08:45–09:30
Registration
 
09:30–09:45
Opening Session
 
09:45–10:45
Keynote · María Poveda-Villalón
Knowledge Beyond Documents: FAIR Ontologies for Humans and Machines
Chair:Eva Pfanzelter
 
10:45–11:15
Coffee Break
 
11:15–12:45
Session 1 · Data Management Plans and FAIR Assessment
Chair: Ralf Krestel
Session 2 · Reproducibility and Provenance in Scholarly Communication
Chair: Jorge Baptista
12:45–14:15
Lunch Break
 
14:15–15:45
Session 3 · Studying the Research Landscape: Scientometrics and Meta-Research
Chair: Elsa Cardoso
Session 4 · Metadata Quality and Scholarly Infrastructures
Chair: Thomas Risse
15:45–16:15
Coffee Break
 
From 16:15
Social Event in the City Centre
 
DAY 3 – September 24

Main Conference

Time
Auditorium 1.5
Auditorium 1.4
08:45–09:30
Registration
 
09:30–10:30
Keynote · Gianmaria Silvello
Transitive Credit Allocation for Heterogeneous and Dynamic Scholarly Graphs
Chair: José Borbinha
 
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
 
11:00–12:30
Session 5 · Search and Recommendation in Academic Digital Libraries
Chair: José Barateiro
Session 6 · LLMs and Multimodal Models for Knowledge Discovery
Chair: Anett Hope
12:30–14:00
Lunch Break
 
14:00–15:30
Demo Session
 
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
 
19:00–22:00
Conference Dinner
 
DAY 4 – September 25

Main Conference

Time
Auditorium 1.5
Auditorium 1.4
09:30–10:30
Keynote · Adam Jatowt
Temporal Intelligence in Language Technologies: Modeling, Retrieval, and Reasoning
Chair: Ricardo Campos
 
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
 
11:00–12:30
Session 7 · Structuring Historical Collections
Chair: Miriam Baglioni
Session 8 · AI, Human Judgement, and Public Information Practices
Chair: Carla Teixeira Lopes
12:30–13:00
Closing Session
 
13:00–14:00
Lunch
 

SESSION 1 – Data Management Plans and FAIR Assessment (Auditorium 1.5)

Full
Community Metrics and Automated Assessment of Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans
Tomasz Miksa, Andres Tabima, Maria Kontopidi and Elli Papadopoulou
Full
2. It’s FAIR and generic?! A systematic analysis for FAIR Assessment Tools
Anna Lehmann-Gnirck
Full
3. Enhancing Machine-Actionable DMPs with Policy Entities Expressed in ODRL
Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Kontopidi, George Konstantinidis, Christopher Maidens, Dimosthenis Natsos, Georgios Kakaletris, Natália Manola, Diamantis Tziotzios and Evdokimos Konstantinidis

SESSION 2 Reproducibility and Provenance in Scholarly Communication·(Auditorium 1.4)

Full
1. CiteExtract: A Transparent Evidence Retrieval System for Scholarly Citation Verification
Diyana Muhammed, Gollam Rabby and Sören Auer
Full
2. Enabling FAIR Research Lifecycle Provenance: The RDIP Project-Centric Integration Profile
Suhel Acharya, Chutiporn Anutariya, Yasuyuki Minamiyama, Hideaki Takeda and Vilas Wuwongse
Full
3. ReproScore: Separating Readiness from Outcome in Research Software Reproducibility Assessment
Sheeba Samuel, Daniel Mietchen, Jungsan Kim, Waqas Ahmed and Martin Gaedke

SESSION 3 – Studying the Research Landscape: Scientometrics and Meta-Research (Auditorium 1.5)

Full
1. AI Declarations in Scholarly Articles under the Microscope
Aftab Anjum, Steffen Lemke, Isabella Peters and Ralf Krestel
Full
2. What funds the European Commission on Digital Humanities?
Lisandra Otero Borges, Nuria Bautista Puig and Sara Martinez Cardama
Full
3. Measuring What the Crawler Sees: Discovery Curves, Core Persistence, and Shell Dynamics in Longitudinal Web Crawls
Michael Paris, Hande Çelikkanat and Luca Foppiano

SESSION 4 – Metadata Quality and Scholarly Infrastructures (Auditorium 1.4)

Full
1. Addressing Predicate Redundancy in Research Knowledge Graphs: Duplicate Detection, Resolution, and Prevention
Lena John, Sushant Aggarwal, Sören Auer and Oliver Karras
Full
2. A Multi-Tenant OAI-PMH 2.0 Endpoint with Type-Constrained Resource Description Schema for Federated SSH Research Infrastructures
Pietro Sichera, Cristina Marras and Enrico Pasini
Short
3. An Affiliation Disambiguation Pipeline for zbMATH Open
Madhurima Deb, Yun Hao, Olaf Teschke and Moritz Schubotz
Short
4. A Quantitative Portrait of Diamond Open Access in the European Union
Simone Angioni, Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, Andrea Mannocci and Gina Pavone

SESSION 5 – Search and Recommendation in Academic Digital Libraries (Auditorium 1.5)

Full
1. Continuous Online Evaluation of Recommendation Strategies in Social Science Academic Search
Mehmet Deniz Türkmen and Daniel Hienert
Full
2. Bridging the Vocabulary Gap: Mapping Free-Text Queries to Controlled Thesaurus Descriptors Using Large Language Models
Arben Hajra and Tamara Pianos
Short
3. Prompta: LLM Query Reformulation for Ensemble-Based Sparse Retrieval
Rawa Anwer and Ralf Krestel
Short
4. Co-Cited Document Prediction Using Citation-Context Pairs for Co-Citation-Based Search
Masaki Eto

SESSION 6 – LLMs and Multimodal Models for Knowledge Discovery (Auditorium 1.4)

Full
1. Using Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies to Understand CLIP Retrieval Failures in Historical Photo Collections
Ratan Sebastian, Anett Hoppe, Christoph Rippe and Ralph Ewerth
Short
2. MARIO: Multi-Agent Retrieval and Iterative Reasoning for Knowledge-Augmented Generation in Scientific Question Answering
Maodi Hu and Donghuan Song
Short
3. GeoSearch: Transforming Geoscience Literature Discovery for Chinese Geoscientists with AI
Feng Zhou, Pengfei Lv, Xing Jiang, Zhangbing Zhou and Jing Zhang
Short
4. Do you “see” what I “see”? A Multi-panel Visual Question and Answer Dataset for Large Language Model Chart Analysis
Daniel Evans, Jill Naiman, Jooyoung Seo and J Stephen Downie

SESSION 7 – Structuring Historical Collections (Auditorium 1.5)

Short
1. Benchmarking Extraction on Arabic Title Pages: From Traditional OCR to Vision Language Models
Luca Sala, Giovanni Sullutrone, Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo, Sania Aftar and Sonia Bergamaschi
Full
2. Zero-Shot Generative Segmentation of Historical Maps via Natural Language-Driven Vision-Language Models
Joerg Baumann, David Fleischhacker, Wolfgang Goederle and Roman Kern
Short
3. Automatic Article Separation in Czech Historical Newspapers Using Visual and Semantic Representations
Jan Osuský, Jose G Moreno and Ahmed Hamdi
Short
4. Integrating a Legacy Catalogue and Linked Open Data for Social Network Analysis of Early Music Print Anthologies (1501–1700)
Daniel Zilio and Gabriele Taschetti

SESSION 8 – AI, Human Judgement, and Public Information Practices (Auditorium 1.4)

Short
1. A Complementary Tool for a Sensitive Domain: How Users Seek Health Information through LLMs
Luana Ponte and Carla Teixeira Lopes
Full
2. Speaker Mining – FAIR data on public broadcasts for question answering
Tim Wittenborg, Omar Imad Remmo, Claudia Frick, Lena John, Oliver Karras and Sören Auer
Short
3. Adoption, Attitudes, and Apprehensions: A Survey of Librarians on GenAI
Maja Kuhar and Adam Roegiest
Short
4. Nobody Truly Agrees on Sentiment: Humans, Bespoke Tools, and LLMs Struggle with Social Media Texts
Himarsha Jayanetti, Sivakanesan Dhanushkanda, Shuai Hao, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle

DEMO SESSION – Research Demonstrations and Sponsor Showcase (Auditorium 1.5)

Demo
1. WikiQuality: An In-Browser Tool for Wikipedia Quality Assessment and Improvement
Carla Teixeira Lopes and Pedro Miguel Moás
Demo
2. Recommending Domain-Specific Microblogging Posts for Professional Communities
Prathvish Mithare and Ralf Krestel
Demo
3. The INRIA DataLake: A Generic and Scalable Ecosystem of Pipelines for HAL Applied to Software Mentions Tracking
Luca Foppiano, Vipul Gupta, Samuel Scalbert, Kumar Guha, Alain Monteil and Laurent Romary
Demo
4. A Template-Driven Platform for Contextualised Researcher Profiles
Serafeim Chatzopoulus, Paris Koloveas, Kleanthis Vichos, Dynissius Diamantis, and Thanasis Vergoulis
Demo
5. LLM-Assisted Exploratory Search in Scholarly Knowledge Graphs
Tim Gollub, Anett Hoppe, Muhammad Farzad Ali, Ralph Ewerth and Benno Stein
Demo
Sponsor Demonstrations
The demo session also includes demonstrations and showcases presented by conference sponsors.

WORKSHOP InfoVis-DL 2026 PROGRAM (Auditorium 1.4)

1.
OPENING AND INTRODUCTION
  • Scope, objectives, and alignment with TPDL themes
2.
PRESENTATIONS
  1. From Inscription to Information: A Multi-modal Visualization Pipeline for Endangered Graffiti Heritage at Apostolos Andreas Monastery, Cyprus
  2. Tracing Early Digital Art: Coordinated Visual Exploration of Digital Art Archives
  3. From Database Records to Human Stories: A Visual Narrative Layer for Egyptian Digital Cultural Heritage.
3.
DAVID LAB PRESENTATION
4.
INTERACTIVE SESSION:WRAP-UP AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
  • Analysis of approaches
  • Discussion of challenges and research gaps
5.
CLOSING
  • Identification of research gaps and collaboration opportunities

WORKSHOP Bias in GLAM: From Data Creation to Algorithmic Access 2026 PROGRAM (Auditorium 1.5)

1.
Keynote: “Evolution of Libraries: From Ancient Times to Generative AI”
  • Ralf Krestel (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Hamburg, Germany)
2.
“Responsible Stewardship of Historical Data: Which Bias(es) to Document?”
  • Jörg Lehmann, Konstantin Baierer, Michał Bubula, Kai Labusch, Clemens Neudecker
3.
BREAK
4.
Is Cultural Heritage Instagrammable? Transfer of an Instagram Beauty-Ideal Classifier to GLAM Images”
  • Tim Gollub, Pierre Achkar, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein
5
“A Task-Level Bias Taxonomy for Historical Image Retrieval
  • Omkar Gavali, Ratan Sebastian, Christoph Rippe, Ralph Ewerth, Anett Hoppe