The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2008 held its fourth annual doctoral consortium on 16 June 2008. The Doctoral Consortium provided an opportunity for ten Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work to receive feedback and advice from a panel of ten digital library experts who have been engaged with research and practice in digital libraries since its earliest days. This year's students hailed from information science, computer science, and biomedical programs around the globe.

Based on the submission of an extended abstract, these students were invited to present a summary of their proposed Ph.D. research at the consortium. Each student was given 20 minutes to present their research, followed by 20 minutes of feedback from the panel. The topics were engaging and the feedback lively. The forum exposes students to a larger, more diverse audience at an internationally renowned conference beyond their standard university environment. Beyond providing feedback and advice, the panel members were able to help students connect with researchers working in similar areas throughout the conference.

The topics the students chose proved to be both interesting and diverse. Digital library research areas included personal digital libraries, metadata, educational digital libraries, information retrieval/search and browse technologies, automated thesaurus indexing, scholarly event detection, collaborative information seeking, human computer interfaces, and bioinformatics. Following their participation in the doctoral consortium, students were invited to revise their extended abstracts for publication. The following articles represent these revised works submitted to the IEEE TCDL Bulletin.

The following students participated in the doctoral consortium:

Robert M. Akscyn
Computer Science Department
University of Waikato

Neal Audenaert
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M

Kai Eckert
Computer Science Institute
University of Mannheim

Senator Jeong
Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
Seoul National University

Saurabh Kataria
College of Information Science and Technology
Pennsylvania State University

G. Craig Murray
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland

Heather Piwowar
Department of Medical Bioinformatics
University of Pittsburgh

Chirag Shah
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Soeun You
College of Information
Florida State University

Jin Zhao
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore

Panelists included:

Michael L. Nelson (co-chair)
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Old Dominion University

Geneva Henry (co-chair)
Executive Director, Center for Digital Scholarship
Rice University

Jose Borbinha
INESC-ID
Portugal

Edward A. Fox
Professor
Computer Science Department
Virginia Tech

Gene Golovchinsky
Senior Research Scientist
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.

Frank McCown
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Harding University

Catherine C. Marshall
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Corporation

Ingeborg T. Solvberg
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Barbara M. Wildemuth
Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Megan Winget
Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of Texas, Austin

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