JCDL Doctoral Consortium 2021

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium is the premier venue to present the work of researchers-in-training in digital libraries. This report provides an overview of this year's consortium. I. INTRODUCTION The doctoral consortium is held annually as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. It provides a venue for PhD candidates to present their current research plans and achievements and receive feedback and advice from leading researchers in the field. That feedback will help them plan the remainder of their doctoral studies and refine the presentation of their research to an international digital library community. The doctoral consortium's aim is to provide a supportive environment and an opportunity for the candidates to share experiences, challenges and solutions with each other. Submissions include a resume of the candidates work to date, an outline of the proposed contribution of their thesis, and a plan for future research activity to complete their dissertation. The scope of the consortium is broad, including submissions that use theoretical, qualitative and quantitative methods, considerations of digital library policy and management, indexation, algorithms, data storage and preservation, institutional and social factors, usability and evaluation, architecture and sustainability. The 2021 consortium was chaired by Prof. Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Xiao Hu, University of Hong Kong, and George Buchanan, University of Melbourne. A total of seven submissions were received. Each contribution was reviewed by the committee in single-blind review and ensuring the avoidance of conflicts of interest. The quality of this year's submissions was consistently high, and six were accepted for inclusion in the consortium. The event itself will run over a day of the conference, to ensure attendees are able to present during a time that is compatible with their own time zone. As with the rest of JCDL, the international nature of the conference means that both panel members and presenters come from across the globe. II. PRESENTATIONS This year's doctoral consortium presenters include: Mary Burke, University of North Texas, USA: “Information needs of language revitalization educators in Northeast India” Spencer Hong, Northwestern University, USA: “Systems-level analysis of the archives of the National Human Genome Research Institute” Manika Lamba, University of Delhi, India: “Analyzing Trends in Electronic Theses and Dissertations: 100 Years of Library and Information Science” Rui Liu, University of Melbourne, Australia: “Digital Resource Aggregation: Using Linked Data to Aggregate Academic Resources in the Digital Humanities” Ying Que, University of Hong Kong, China: “Investigate the Effects of Background Music on Visual Cognitive Tasks Using Multimodal Learning Analytics” Yusra Shakeel, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany: “Towards (Semi-)Automatic Literature Analysis for Software Engineering Researchers” Our presenters will each be giving a talk on their thesis topic. This will be followed by a feedback session with the consortium panel members. General discussions will be held at the end of each session to address issues such as differences in expectations of PhDs between countries and All presenters will receive a complimentary registration for the JCDL conference, to further the building of their networks in the DL community and to give them the opportunity of hearing about the latest DL research.