JCDL 2005 Award Nominees and Winners

The following papers were nominated for awards at this year's JCDL conference.

Vannevar Bush Best Paper

$1,000, sponsored by ACM, was given to the best paper presented at JCDL. All full papers accepted for presentation were eligible for consideration. The winning paper was selected by the JCDL Program Committee.  

Winner:

Developing Practical Automatic Metadata Assignment and Evaluation Tools forInternet Resources
G. Paynter

Other nominees:

Addressing the Challenge of Visual Information Access from Digital Image and Video Libraries
M. Christel & R. Conescu

In the Company of Readers: The Digital Library Book as “Practiced Place”
N. Kaplan & Y. Chisik

An Initial Evaluation of Automated Organization for Digital Library Browsing
A. Krowne & M. Halbert

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Teacher Development and Use of Digital Library Resources
M. Recker, J. Dorward, D. Dawson, S. Halioris, Y. Liu, X. Mao, B. Palmer, & J. Park

Best International Paper Award

$500, sponsored by the University of Arizona, was awarded to the best paper whose first author was from outside of the United States.

Winner:

Digital Libraries Support for the User's 'Information Journey'
A. Adams & A. Blandford

Other nominees:  

Annotating Illuminated Manuscripts: An Effective Tool for Research and Education
M. Agosti, N. Ferro, & N. Orio

On Assigning Place Names to Geography Related Web Pages
W. Zong, D. Wu, A. Sun, E.-P. Lim, & D. Goh

Best Student Paper Award

$500, sponsored by IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, was awarded for the best full paper having a student as the first author.

Winner:

Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale and Applications of Bi-LevelRadial Quantum Layouts
J. Kustanowitz & B. Shneiderman

Other nominees:

A New Framework for Building Digital Library Collections
G. Buchanan, D. Bainbridge, K. Don, & I. Witten

What's There and What's Not? Focused Crawling for Missing Documents in Digital Libraries
Z. Zhuang, R. Wagle, & C.L. Giles

On Assigning Place Names to Geography Related Web Pages
W. Zong, D. Wu, A. Sun, E.-P. Lim, & D. Goh

Best Poster Award

$500, sponsored by the University of Arizona, was awarded to the poster that received the most votes from conference attendees.

Winner:

Music-to-Knowledge(M2K): A Prototyping and Evaluation Environment for Music Digital Library Research
J.S. Downie, A. F. Ehmann, X. Hu