Introduction to the 2011 JCDL Doctoral Consortium Issue

This special issue presents a collection of papers written by participants in the Doctoral Consortium of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held in Ottawa, Canada. This event brought together Ph.D. students engaged in digital library research from around the world to present and discuss their work with an Advisory Panel of international experts. The aim of the annual JCDL Doctoral Consortium is to provide a forum for presentation, discussion and constructive feedback for students whose work is at a stage where they can benefit most from this type of interaction.