ICADL 2026
The 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2026)
23–25 November 2026 at Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Conference Theme is: “Empowering Digital Knowledge Ecosystems through Data, AI, and Human Intelligence.”
sub-themes:
– DIK and Digital Libraries
– AI, Data Science, and Analytics
– Sustainable Computing
– Social Analytics
The International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), which started in Hong Kong in 1998 and over the years traveled many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, is a major digital library conference. Along with JCDL and TPDL, ICADL is held annually as one of the three top venues for connecting digital library, computer science, and library and information science communities. This year, ICADL 2026 will be held from November 23rd to 25th, 2026 at the Khon Kaen University in Khon kaen, Thailand as an onsite face-to-face conference; however, for those who cannot attend, ICADL 2026 will allow them to present their papers online and join sessions.
The theme for ICADL 2026 is “Empowering Digital Knowledge Ecosystems through Data, AI, and Human Intelligence“. As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining widespread use, it has the potential to positively and negatively impact digital libraries and their stakeholders. This conference welcomes papers that explores the role of generative AI in digital libraries and other information intensive environments.
Proceedings of ICADL 2026 are going to be published by Springer as an LNCS volume, which is indexed by Scopus. This year, we have the following four submission categories: full papers, short papers, practice papers, and demo/poster papers.
ABOUT
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for paper and submission link are available at the conference’s …
Proceedings of ICADL 2026 are going to be published by Springer as an LNCS volume, which is indexed by Scopus. This year, we have the following four submission categories: full papers, short papers, practice papers, and demo/poster papers.
If there is any interest for organizing workshops, tutorial, and panel sessions with ICADL 2026, we will consider them on request. Please contact conference organizers (To: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kanyarat Kwiecien (kandad@kku.ac.th) Khon Kaen University) with your proposal. The information about the accepted events will put on the conference website and we will encourage attendees to join the events.
The review for practice paper submissions will put less emphasis on the novelty and more on real world practices and applications of DL technologies in institutions or companies.
TOPICS
We invite submissions on diverse topics related to digital libraries and related fields including (but not limited to):
- Information retrieval and access technologies to digital collections
- Data mining and information extraction
- IoT and digital libraries
- AI for digital libraries
- Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
- Knowledge discovery from digital libraries content
- Recommender systems for digital libraries content
- Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
- Data science techniques
- Semantic Web, linked data, and metadata technologies
- Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
- Applications and quality assurance of digital libraries
- Research data and open access
- Visualization, user interface, and user experience
- Social networking and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries
- Personal information management and personal digital libraries
- Information service technologies in digital libraries
- Bibliometrics and scholarly communication in digital libraries
- Curation and preservation technologies in digital libraries
- Information organization support
- Novel applications for digital libraries
- Pretrained language models and digital libraries
- Generating prompts for large language models
- Detecting content created by generative AI
- Cultural heritage access and analysis
- Dealing with history, literature, music in digital libraries
- Scholarly data analysis
- Scientometrics
- Access and usage of Web Archives
- Community Informatics
- Cultural heritage and museum informatics
- Collaborations among archives, libraries, and museums
- Collection development and discovery
- Digital cultural memory initiatives
- Memory organizations in the digital space
- Digital preservation and digital curation
- Digital library/digital archive infrastructures
- Digital library education and digital literacy
- Higher education uses of digital collections
- Research data infrastructures, management and use
- Information policies
- Participatory cultural heritage
- The information is currently being updated.
- Data analytics for social networks
- Socio-technical aspects of digital libraries
- Sustainability of digital libraries
- Research methods for digital libraries during social isolation times
- Roles of digital libraries for isolated societies
- Digital libraries for learning, collaboration, and organization in the networked environment
- Societal and cultural issues in knowledge, information, and data
- Intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation
- Intellectual property issues
- Policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries
- Social, legal, ethical, financial issues of Web Archives
- Social policy issues on digital libraries
- Information behavior analysis
- Social sciences and digital libraries
- Crowdsourcing and user-generated content
- Information work and digital libraries
- Information economics and digital libraries
- Education with digital libraries
- Participatory cultures and digital libraries
- Digital scholarship and services
- Open data initiatives and utilization
- Misinformation and disinformation
- Impact of generative AI on digital library policy and practice
- Generative AI and the digital library user experience
- Green AI and Energy-Efficient Computing
- Green Data Centers and Cloud Computing
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Sustainable Systems
- Hardware and System Design for Sustainability
- Software Engineering for Sustainability
- Sustainable Computing Metrics and Assessment
- Smart Cities and Sustainable Digital Transformation
- Circular Economy and IT Sustainability
- AI for Sustainability (AI for Good)
- Policy, Ethics, and Governance
- Green AI Adoption in Developing Countries
- Sustainable Computing Framework for AI Literacy in Education
SUBMISSION
All submissions must be in English, in PDF format. Papers should follow Springer Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Formatting & Submission Lengths
The lengths of submissions should be as follows:
- Full papers: 12-14 pages + references
- Short papers: 6-8 pages + references
- Practice papers: 6-8 pages + references
- Demo/poster papers: 4-6 pages + references
Review Process & Presentation Policy
The review process is double-blind. At least 3 Program Committee members will review each submission. The review for practice paper submissions will put less emphasis on the novelty and more on real world practices and applications of DL technologies in institutions or companies. Sufficient time will be given to the oral presentation for accepted papers in all submission categories either in-person or using an online presentation platform to be chosen later (e.g., WebEx). Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one of the co-authors.
IMPORTANT DATES
The schedule is shown below. All the dates are Anywhere on GMT+7 time zone:
- Full, Short Research and Practice Papers Submission: July 15, 2026
- Demo/Poster Papers Submission: July 31, 2026
- Acceptance Notification (All paper categories): August 21, 2026
- Camera Ready Copy of Papers: September 11, 2026
- Conference: November 23 – November 25, 2026
Conference Chair
Chair: Prof. Kulthida Tuamsuk (Khon Kaen University)
Co-Chair : Prof. Lihong Zhao (Wuhan University)
Program Committee Chair
Chair: Prof. Kulthida Tuamsuk (Khon Kaen University)
Co-Chair: Associate Prof. Shuntaro Yada (U. of Tsukuba)
Assistant Prof. Nyugen Thi Lan (KKU)
Publicity Co-Chair
Prof. Chei Sian Lee (Nanyang Technological University)
Prof. Lihong Zhao (Wuhan University)
Doctoral Consortium Chair
Asst.Prof. Naya Sucha-xaya (Chulalongkorn University)
Assoc Prof Sin Sei Ching Joanna (Nanyang Technological University)
Workshop Co-Chair
Associate Prof. Kanyarat Kwiecien (Khon Kaen University)
Associate Prof. Songphan Choemprayong (Chulalongkorn University)
Web chairs
Asst.Prof. Nawapon Kaewsuwan (Prince of Songkha University)
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Accommodation & Conference Venues
- held on 23–25 November 2026 at Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
- accommodation facilities, Bayasita Hotel, with a university hotel