Total virtual participants: 414
Total participants onsite in Bloomington: 244
Full Research Paper: 35 (acceptance rate 32%)
Short Research Papers: 68 (acceptance rate 51%)
Chinese Research Papers: 20
Spanish & Portuguese Research Papers: 4
Poster: 38 (acceptance rate 73%)
Workshops & Panels: 22 (acceptance rate 69%)
Colloquia and Symposia: 44 (acceptance rate 71%)
Reviewer: 486
Participants per Region
Conference Chairs
Howard Rosenbaum
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Carol Choksy
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Devan R. Donaldson
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Noriko Hara
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Organizers
Full Research Papers Chairs: Madelyn Sanfilippo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States), Charles Inskip (University College London, United Kingdom) and Annika Hinze (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Short Research Papers Chairs: Rhea Rowena Ubana-Apolinario (University of the Philippines, Philippines), and France Bouthillier (McGill University, Canada).
Posters Chairs: Eric M. Meyers (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Laura Sbaffi (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) and Ping Wang (Central China Normal University, China)
Spanish-Portuguese Research Papers Chairs: Josep Cobarsí Morales (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Julián D. Cortés (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Sara Martínez Cardama (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) and Alan César Belo Angeluci (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Chinese Research Papers Chairs: Rong Tang (Simmons University, United States), Tina Du (Charles Sturt University, Australia) and Pengyi Zhang (Peking University, China)
Workshops & Panels Chairs: Bei Yu (Syracuse University, United States), Rahmi (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia) and Helena Lipková (Charles University Prague, Czechia)
Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Güleda Doğan (Europe & Africa, Hacettepe University, Turkey), Khalid Hossain (Asia Pacific, Monash University, Australia) and Heather Moulaison-Sandy (North America, University of Missouri United States)
Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Udo Kruschwitz (Europe & Africa, University of Regensburg, Germany), Kristin Eschenfelder (North America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Dion Hoe-Lian Goh (Asia Pacific, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Student Symposium Chairs: Hiroyoshi Ito (Asia Pacific, University of Tsukuba, Japan), Anika Meyer (Europe & Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Matthew Francisco (North America, Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
Additional Conference Chairs: Slava Sterzer, Vera Hillebrand, Ulrike Liebner (iSchool staff) and Gillian Dunn (North American, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Proceedings Chair: Isaac Sserwanga, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Organizing Committee was responsible for the program.
Program Committee
Sponsors & Partners
⋆ Florida State University
⋆ Syracuse University
⋆ University of Kentucky
⋆ University of South Carolina
⋆ Rutgers University
⋆ The University of Tennessee Knoxville
⋆ University of Alabama
⋆ ServiceNow
⋆ Figshare
⋆ O'Reilly
⋆ University of Texas at Austin
⋆ University of South Florida
⋆ Vivum AI
⋆ Simmons University
⋆ University of Toronto
⋆ University of Montréal
⋆ University of Iowa
⋆ University of California, Berkeley
Awards
Best Full Research Paper Award sponsored by UC Berkeley School of Information, the Award is presented to the author(s) of the conference’s most outstanding full research paper. The 2025 award included a prize of $1,000 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Improving Scholarship Accessibility with Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Wang, Haining; Clark, Jason; McKelvey, Hannah; Sterman, Leila; Zheng, Gao; Tian, Zuoyu; Liu, Xiaozhong
Title: Leveraging Social Circles and Algorithmic Processes in Digital Mental Health Tools for College Students' Stress Management
Authors: Kazi, Farhanuddin Fazaluddin; Sandbulte, Jomara
Title: Collaborative Human-AI Risk Annotation: Co-Annotating Online Incivility with CHAIRA
Authors: Park, Jinkyung Katie; Ellezhuthil, Rahul Dev; Wisniewski, Pamela; Singh, Vivek
Title: Conceptual approaches to information-as-potentiality
Authors: Chassanoff, Alexandra; Chen, Annie
Best Short Research Paper
Sponsored by Iowa, School of Library and Information Science. The 2025 award included a prize of $500 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Discourses of Fear around AI and their Implications for Library and Information Science
Author: Appedu, Sarah; Qin, Yigang
Title: Evaluating Techniques of Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots
Authors: Barfield, Jessica
Title: 'Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: A Thematic Analysis of Datahoarding as Digital Curation Practice
Author: Maemura, Emily; Wagner, Travis L.
Title: “Just because we can, does it mean we should?” The Integrated Data Infrastructure in Aotearoa, and its implications for Māori
Authors: Boey, Daphne; Toland, Janet; Campbell-Meier, Jennifer; Lilley, Spencer
Best Poster Award sponsored by Figshare. The 2025 award included a prize of $300 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Decoding Climate Data Modeling and its Impacts
Authors: Dave, Aashka
Title: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Software Accessibility Laws, Policies, and Guidelines
Authors: Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan; Sanfilippo, Madelyn Rose
Title: Generative AI in the Creative Domain: Innovation or Interference? Preliminary insights from online discussions
Authors: Lee, Hyun Seung; Luo, Manman
Title: Doc on the Tok: How BIPOC College Students Perceive Healthcare Professionals’ Social Media Content
Authors: Zheng, Xiang; Xiong, Tiancheng
The Best Chinese Research Paper award 2025 included a prize of $1000 U.S.
RUNNERS UP
Title: Value-Added Logics of Humanities Data: A Case Study on Digital Humanities Projects
Authors: Jian, Hua; Wang, Xiaoguang; Hou, Xilong
Title: Research on Disruptive Technology Identification Methods Integrating SBERT and DTM Models: A Case Study of Hydrogen Energy Storage
Authors: Lv, Kun; Zhang, Liyue; Bao, Zemenghong
Title: Research on Knowledge Reconstruction and Visualization Path of Ancient Chinese Landscape Chronicles through the Integration of Large Language Models
Authors: Zhou, Shubin; Cheng, Shuangling
The organizing team of the iConference 2025 included members from 16 countries.
