Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The 2020 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries ( TPDL 2020 ) was planned to take place in Lyon, France, but was virtually hosted via Big Blue Button . It was a joint conference with ADBIS 2020 and EDA 2020 . TPDL was a fascinating look into the various projects and research efforts undertaken by members of the digital library community. Due to the time zone differences and technical issues, I could not attend all sessions. As usual, I will summarize some of those I have attended here. On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web Martin Klein  and Lyudmila Balakireva , my teammates from the  Los Alamos Laboratory Research Library Prototyping Team , won the best paper award at TPDL 2020 for " On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web ."  On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web from Martin Klein In their paper, Martin and Luda investigated how consistently scholarly publishers respond to comm...