The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award is given to the best paper that is
presented at the JCDL (and earlier ACM DL) since 1998. All full papers that are accepted for presentation are eligible and the JCDL Steering
Committee selects the winner.
| Year |
Authors |
Title |
| 2023 | Christof Bless, Ildar Baimuratov, and Oliver Karras | SciKGTeX - A LaTeX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications |
| 2022 | Martin Klein, Lyudmila Balakireva, Karolina Holub, Draženko Celjak, and Ingeborg Rudomino | Investigating Bloom Filters for Web Archives’ Holdings |
| 2021 | Mari Sato, Adam Jatowt, Yijun Duan, Ricardo Campos, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa | Estimating Contemporary Relevance of Past News |
| 2020 | Yusuke Yamamoto and Takehiro Yamamoto | Personalization Finder: A Search Interface for Identifying and Self-controlling Web Search Personalization |
| 2019 | Drahomira Herrmannova, Nancy Pontika, and Petr Knoth | Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance |
| 2018* | Myriam C. Traub, Thaer Samar, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman | Impact of Crowdsourcing OCR Improvements on Retrievability Bias |
| 2018* | Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Laura Dietz | Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context |
| 2017 | Nicholas Cole, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, and Grace Mallon | Quill: A Framework for Constructing Negotiated Texts - with a Case Study on the US Constitutional Convention of 1787 |
| 2016 | Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone | Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Versions |
| 2015 | Pertti Vakkari and Janna Pöntinen | Result List Actions in Fiction Search |
| 2014 | Chuck Cartledge and Michael Nelson | When Should I Make Preservation Copies of Myself? |
| 2013 | Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan | Exploiting Potential Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation |
| 2012 | Hongbo Deng, Jiawei Han, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King | Modeling and exploiting heterogeneous bibliographic networks for expertise ranking |
| 2011 | Robert Sanderson, Benjamin Albritton, Rafael Schwemmer and Herbert Van De Sompel | SharedCanvas: A collaborative model for medieval manuscript layout dissemination |
| 2010 | David Bamman, Alison Babeu, and Gregory Crane | Transferring structural markup across translations using multilingual alignment and Projection |
| 2009 | Steven Bethard, Philipp Wetzler, Kirste Butcher, James H. Martin, and Tamara Sumner | Automatically characterizing resource quality for educational digital libraries |
| 2008 | Catherine C. Marshall | From writing and analysis to the repository: taking the scholars' perspective on scholarly archiving |
| 2007 | Shane Ahern, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, and Jeannie Yang | World explorer: visualizing aggregate data from unstructured text in geo-referenced collections |
| 2006 | Carl Lagoze, Tim cornwell, Naomi Dushay, Dean Ecktrom, Dean Krafft, and John Saylor | Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries:" a retrospective on the NSDL experience |
| 2005 | Gordon W. Paynter | Developing practical automatic metadata assignment and evaluation tools for internet resources |
| 2004 | Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, and Hector Garcia-Molina | Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates |
| 2003 | Barbara M. Wildemuth, Gary Marchionini, Meng Yang, Gary Geisler, Todd Wilkens, Anthony Hughes, and Richard Gruss | How fast is too fast? Evaluating fast forward surrogates for digital video |
| 2002 | Donna Bergmark | Collection systhesis. |
| 2001 | Gregory Crane, Clifford E. Wulfman, and David A. Smith | Building a hypertextual digital library in the humanities: a case study on London |
| 2000 | Joanna L. Wolfe | Effects of annotations on student readers and writers |
| 1999 | David Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. Smith, and Rodger J. McNab | Towards a digital library of popular music |
| 1998 | Catherine C. Marshall | Making metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection |
This award is given to the best paper presented at JCDL having a student as the first author. All full papers
with a student as the first author that are accepted for presentation are eligible.
| Year |
Authors |
Title |
| 2023 | Lesley Frew, Michael Nelson, and Michele Weigle | Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives |
| 2022* | Arthur Brack, Anett Hoppe, Pascal Buschermöhle, and Ralph Ewerth | Cross-domain multi-task learning for sequential sentence classification in research papers |
| 2022* | Sandeep Kumar, Hardik Arora, Tirthankar Ghosal, and Asif Ekbal | DeepASPeer: Towards an Aspect-level Sentiment Controllable Framework for Decision Prediction in Peer Reviews |
| 2021 | Joel Pepper, Jane Greenberg, Yasin Bakiş, Xiaojun Wang, Henry Bart Jr., and David Breen | Automatic Metadata Generation for Fish Specimen Image Collections |
| 2020 | Krutarth Patel, Cornelia Caragea, Mark E. Phillips, and Nathaniel T. Fox | Identifying Documents In-Scope of a Collection from Web Archives |
| 2019 | Dattatreya Mohapatra, Abhishek Maiti, Sumit Bhatia, and Tanmoy Chakraborty | Go Wide, Go Deep: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Papers Through Influence Dispersion Trees |
| 2018 | Myriam C. Traub, Thaer Samar, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman | Impact of Crowdsourcing OCR Improvements on Retrievability Bias |
| 2017 | Felix Hamborg, Norman Meuschke, and Bela Gipp | Matrix-based News Aggregation: Exploring Different News Perspectives |
| 2016 | Long Le, Chirag Shah, and Erik Choi | Evaluating the Quality of Educational Answers in Community Question-Answering |
| 2015 | Lulwah M. Alkwai, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle | How Well Are Arabic Websites Archived? |
| 2014 | Daniel Hasan Dalip, Harlley Lima, Marcos Gonçalves, Marco Cristo and Pável Calado | Quality Assessment of Collaborative Content With Minimal Information |
| 2014 | Justin F. Brunelle, Mat Kelly, Hany Salaheldeen, Michele C. Weigle and Michael L. Nelson | Not All Mementos Are Created Equal: Measuring The Impact Of Missing Resources |
| 2013 | Suppawong Tuarob, Line C. Pouchard, and C. Lee Giles | Automatic tag recommendation for metadata annotation using probabilistic topic modeling |
| 2012 | Jürgen Bernard, Tobias Ruppert, Maximilian Scherer, Jörn Kohlhammer, Tobias Schreck | Content-based layouts for exploratory metadata search in scientific research data |
| 2011 | Myriam Ben Saad and Stéphane Gançarski | Archiving the web using page changes pattern: a case study |
| 2010 | Xiao Hu and J. Stephen Downie | Improving mood classification in music digital libraries by combining lyrics and audio |
| 2009 | William B. Lund and Eric K. Ringger | Improving optical character recognition through efficient multiple system alignment |
| 2008 | Yi Huang and Michael S. Brown | User-assisted ink-bleed correction for handwritten documents |
| 2007 | Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram, and Lexing Xie | Modeling personal and social network context for event annotation in images |
| 2006* | YuanYuan Yu, Jeannie A. Stamberger, Aswath Manoharan, and Andreas Paepcke | EcoPod: a mobile tool for community based biodiversity collection building |
| 2005* | Jack Kustanowitz and Ben Shneiderman | Meaningful presentations of photo libraries: rationale and applications of bi-level radial quantum layouts |
| 2004* | Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox, Aaron Krowne, Pável Calado, Alberto H. F. Laender, Altigran S. da Silva, and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto | The effectiveness of automatically structured queries in digital libraries |
* Sponsored by IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
This award is given to the best short paper presented at JCDL.
This award is given to the best paper that is presented at JCDL, having first author from outside the United States. All full papers that are accepted for presentation are eligible.
The Best Poster Award is given to the best poster that is presented at the JCDL conference. All posters
presented are eligible and JCDL attendees vote to select the winner for the Best Poster Award.
| Year |
Authors |
Title |
| 2023 | Lyudmila Balakireva, Emily Escamilla, Talya Cooper, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle | The Memento Tracer Toolset for Human-Guided Focused Crawling of Dynamic Web |
| 2021 | Bhanuka Mahanama, Gavindya Jayawardena, and Sampath Jayarathna | Analyzing Unconstrained Reading Patterns of Digital Documents Using Eye Tracking |
| 2020 | Gavindya Jayawardena, Sampath Jayarathna, and Jian Wu | Analyzing the Effect of Reading Patterns using Eye Tracking Measures |
| 2019 | Johannes Kiesel, Fabienne Hubricht, Benno Stein, and Martin Potthast | A Dataset for Content Error Detection in Web Archives |
| 2018 | Mohamed Aturban, Mat Kelly, Sawood Alam, John A. Berlin, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle | ArchiveNow: Simplified, Extensible, Multi-Archive Preservation |
| 2017 | Mat Kelly, Lulwah M. Alkwai, Sawood Alam, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle | Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count |
| 2016 | Drahomira Herrmannova and Petr Knoth | Semantometrics: Towards fulltext-based research evaluation |
| 2015 | Ahmed Alsum | Reconstruction of the US First Website |
| 2015 | Wesley Jordan, Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Laura Vobrak, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson | Mobile Mink: Merging Mobile and Desktop Archived Webs |
| 2013 | Zhuoren Jiang and Xiaozhong Liu | Recovering missing citations in a scholarly network: a 2-step citation analysis to estimate publication importance |
| 2012 | Robert Sanderson | Global web archive integration with memento |
| 2011 | Sally Jo Cunningham | How Children Find Books for Leisure Reading: Implications for the Digital Library |
| 2009 | Quinn Stewart and David Todd | Using University Collections in Digital Library Education |
| 2006 | Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel | An analysis of the bid behavior of the 2005 JCDL program committee |
| 2005** | J. Stephen Downie, Andreas F. Ehmann, Xiao Hu | Music-to-knowledge (M2K): a prototyping and evaluation environment for music digital library research |
| 2004** | Xiaoming Liu, Johan Bollen, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeremy Hussell, Rick Luce, Linn Marks | Toolkits for Visualizing Co-Authorship Graphs |
The Best Demonstration Award is given to the best demonstration that is presented at the JCDL conference. All demonstration
presented are eligible.
