SIGWEB/SIGIR Vannevar Bush Award
The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award recognizes the best full paper presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), continuing a tradition established by the earlier ACM Digital Libraries (DL) conference. All accepted full papers are eligible, and the recipient is selected by the JCDL Steering Committee. The award has been presented annually since 1998.
2025 | Wendeline Swart, Guillaume Cabanac, Ophélie Fraisier-Vannier, and Gilles Hubert | How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulation. |
2024 | Priyangshu Datta, Suchana Datta, and Dwaipayan Roy | RAGing Against the Literature: LLM-Powered Dataset Mention Extraction. |
2023 | Christof Bless, Ildar Baimuratov, and Oliver Karras | SciKGTeX - A LaTeX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. |
2022 | Martin Klein, Lyudmila Balakireva, Karolina Holub, Draženko Celjak, and Ingeborg Rudomino | |
2021 | Mari Sato, Adam Jatowt, Yijun Duan, Ricardo Campos, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa | |
2020 | Yusuke Yamamoto and Takehiro Yamamoto | |
2019 | Drahomira Herrmannova, Nancy Pontika, and Petr Knoth | Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance. |
2018 | Myriam C. Traub, Thaer Samar, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman | Impact of Crowdsourcing OCR Improvements on Retrievability Bias. |
2018 | Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Laura Dietz | Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context. |
2017 | Nicholas Cole, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, and Grace Mallon | |
2016 | Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone | Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Versions. |
2015 | Pertti Vakkari and Janna Pöntinen | |
2014 | Chuck Cartledge and Michael Nelson | |
2013 | Kazunari Sugiyama and Min-Yen Kan | Exploiting Potential Citation Papers in Scholarly Paper Recommendation. |
2012 | Hongbo Deng, Jiawei Han, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King | Modeling and exploiting heterogeneous bibliographic networks for expertise ranking. |
2011 | Robert Sanderson, Benjamin Albritton, Rafael Schwemmer and Herbert Van De Sompel | SharedCanvas: A collaborative model for medieval manuscript layout dissemination. |
2010 | David Bamman, Alison Babeu, and Gregory Crane | Transferring structural markup across translations using multilingual alignment and Projection. |
2009 | Steven Bethard, Philipp Wetzler, Kirste Butcher, James H. Martin, and Tamara Sumner | Automatically characterizing resource quality for educational digital libraries. |
2008 | Catherine C. Marshall | |
2007 | Shane Ahern, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, and Jeannie Yang | World explorer: visualizing aggregate data from unstructured text in geo-referenced collections. |
2006 | Carl Lagoze, Tim cornwell, Naomi Dushay, Dean Ecktrom, Dean Krafft, and John Saylor | Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries:" a retrospective on the NSDL experience. |
2005 | Gordon W. Paynter | Developing practical automatic metadata assignment and evaluation tools for internet resources. |
2004 | Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, and Hector Garcia-Molina | Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates. |
2003 | Barbara M. Wildemuth, Gary Marchionini, Meng Yang, Gary Geisler, Todd Wilkens, Anthony Hughes, and Richard Gruss | How fast is too fast? Evaluating fast forward surrogates for digital video. |
2002 | Donna Bergmark | |
2001 | Gregory Crane, Clifford E. Wulfman, and David A. Smith | Building a hypertextual digital library in the humanities: a case study on London. |
2000 | Joanna L. Wolfe | |
1999 | David Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. Smith, and Rodger J. McNab | |
1998 | Catherine C. Marshall | Making metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection. |