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February 17, 2025
The Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries conference (TPDL) was held in Valletta, Malta on 22-26 September, and Digital Development Team manager Claire Knowles got an extra week of summertime by attending. She writes:
It was my first time attending this conference which attracts lots of attendees from academia as well as fellow library colleagues. On the first day I attended two tutorials, one on Linked Data http://www.tpdl2013.info/tut-lddl.php and the second on ResourceSync http://www.openarchives.org/rs/0.9.1/resourcesync slides http://www.slideshare.net/OpenArchivesInitiative/resourcesync-tutorial.
The following day the conference proceedings started, Christine Borgman (@SciTechProf) from UCLA, gave the opening keynote on “Digital Scholarship and Digital Libraries: Past, Present, and Future“, which was based on her current book (yet to be published) with 4 themes:
The closing keynote was titled: What can linked data do for Digital Libraries? by Soren Auer (http://aksw.org/About.html) who has just joined the University of Bonn. He discussed how to digitise the concept of the library and he demonstrated a number of projects he has worked on to enable this:
There were a few re-occurring topics during the conference:
Next year’s conference will combine the European TPDL and North American JCDL Conferences and be held in London.