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ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL 2020 )  Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. The goal of this workshop is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice in a constructive atmosphere. Here, students present and discuss their research in a supportive atmosphere, with other doctoral students and an international panel of established researchers. The JCDL 2020 Doctoral Consortium took place in two virtual sessions . The first session took place on July 31, from 10.30 PM - 12.00 AM (UTC-4). The second session took place on August 1, from 1:30 AM - 3:00 AM (UTC-4). Session 1 The first session took place with Dr. Xiaozhong Liu from Indiana University, USA , Dr. Wei Lu from Wuhan University, China , and Dr. Jian Qin from Syracuse University, USA as the primary mentors, and Dr. Stephen Downie from University of Illinois, USA ,

On June 3, 2018, PhD students arrived in Fort Worth, Texas to attend the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium . This is a pre-conference event associated with the ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries . This event gives PhD students a forum in which to discuss their dissertation work with others in the field. The Doctoral Consortium was well attended, not only by the presenting PhD students, their advisors/supervisors, and organizers, but also by those who were genuinely interested in emerging work. As usual, I live-tweeted the event to capture salient points. It was a very enjoyable experience for all. Thanks very much to the chairs: J. Stephen Downie , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA Oksana Zavalina , University of North Texas , USA Daniel Gelaw Alemneh , University of North Texas , USA Sampath Jayarathna , Old Dominion University , USA In this post I will cover the work of all accepted students, three of whom are

"Dad, he is pushing random doorbell buttons", Dr. Herzog 's daughter complained about her brother while we were walking back home late night after having dinner in the city center of Potsdam. Dr. Herzog smiled and replied, "it's rather a cool idea, let's all do it". Repeating the TPDL 2015 tradition , Dr. Michael Herzog's family was hosting me ( Sawood Alam ) at their place after the TPDL 2016 conference in Hannover . Leaving some cursing people behind (who were disturbed by false doorbells), he asked me, "how was your conference this year?" Day 1 Between the two parallel sessions of the first day, I attended the Doctoral Consortium session as a participant. The chair Kjetil Nørvåg , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, began the session with the formal introduction of the session structure and timeline. Out of the seven accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions, only five could make it to the workshop. Õnne

Traditionally,  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) has hosted a workshop session called Doctoral Consortium (DC) specific to PhD students of digital library research field and this year (JCDL 2016) was no exception. The workshop was intended for students that are in the early stages of their dissertation work. Several WS-DL group members attended and reported past DC workshops and this time it was my turn. This year's doctoral consortium (June 19, 2016) was chaired by  George Buchanan ,  J. Stephen Downie , and  Uma Murthy . Committee members included  Sally Jo Cunningham ,  Michael Nelson ,  Martin Klein , and  Edie Rasmussen . A total of six PhD students participated in the workshop and presented their work. The doctoral consortium session is generally not open for public participation, however,  Michele C. Weigle (JCDL 2016 program chair), Mat Kelly ( last year's DC participant), and Alexandar Nwala (potential future participant) also attended th

Mat Kelly attended and presented at the JCDL 2015 Doctoral Consortium. This is his report.                            Evaluating progress between milestones in a PhD program is difficult due to the inherent open-endedness of research. A means of evaluating whether a student's topic is sound and has merit while still early on in his career is to attend a doctoral consortium. Such an event, as the one held at the annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) , has previously provided a platform for WS-DL students (see 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and others ) to network with faculty and researchers from other institutions as well as observe the approach that other PhD students at the same point in their career use to explain their respective topics. As the wheels have turned, I have showed enough progress in my research for it to be suitable for preliminary presentation at the 2015 JCDL Doctoral Consortium -- so did so this past Sunday in Knoxville, Tennessee. Along with seven