The 1st EcoDL 2025 workshop invites submissions across a wide range of contributions—including original research, early-stage ideas, system demos, use cases, vision papers, and mature versions of preprints—on topics including, but not limited to, the following :
Biodiversity knowledge graphs
Linked open data for integrating scattered ecological knowledge sources
Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts
Semantic annotation and classification of ecological data
AI-driven taxonomy generation for ecological datasets
Neural search for literature and reports: Improving retrieval of species, habitats, and ecosystem information
Improving retrieval of study question, research hypothesis and applied method
LLMs for information extraction: Capturing species interactions, climate impacts, and conservation policies
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for ecological research: Hybrid AI systems for answering complex scientific questions
Multimodal search for biodiversity and environmental studies: Combining text, image, and geospatial data retrieval
Automated knowledge discovery from climate and biodiversity repositories
Data interoperability
Open science infrastructure for ecological and environmental data
Ontologies for data interoperability in ecology: Standardizing environmental terms and concepts
FAIR data and software
Data lifecycle management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse)
AI-based literature review
AI-driven synthesis of ecological knowledge: taking complexity and context-dependence into account
Monitoring biases in study system, study regions and methods in ecological research
Tracking Misinformation in Climate Science Using NLP: Identifying and mitigating the spread of false environmental claims.
Methods for digitizing and analyzing historical ecological archives
Indigenous knowledge and digital archives for sustainability
AI-powered environmental storytelling and digital heritage
Human-nature interactions in digital libraries
Digitization and NLP for analyzing historical climate data
Integrating remote sensing data with ecological repositories
Multimodal search for biodiversity studies
AI-powered decision support systems for restoration and conservation
Lay summaries based on ecological evidence
Impact assessment of conservation policies via digital libraries
Evaluating the role of AI in ecological research
Challenges and limitations of AI-driven ecological modeling
The impact of automated systems on scientific knowledge creation
Ethical considerations in AI-assisted ecological analysis
Future directions for AI in knowledge synthesis for ecology
We encourage interested researchers to also check out the topics of interest of the main conference research track https://tpdl2025.github.io/Calls/researchtrack.html in case you find a suitable topic on the theme of our workshop "Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice". Such submissions are also highly encouraged. In case you have questions about the fit of your research to the workshop please feel free to reach out to any of the workshop organizers via email.
The EcoDL 2025 Workshop welcomes a wide range of contributions, including original research, early-stage ideas, system demos, use cases, vision papers, and mature versions of preprints. We invite submission types in any of the following three formats:
Long Papers: Up to 15 LNCS style pages, including references.
Short Papers: Up to 10 LNCS style pages, including references.
Abstracts: Up to 2 LNCS style pages, including references.
Download the Overleaf, LaTeX, and Word templates for your EcoDL paper submission, and find detailed formatting instructions at the following link: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
All accepted long and short workshop papers will be published in the Springer series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Abstract submissions will be invited as poster presentations, to foster discussion and networking at the workshop, but will not be compiled in the proceedings.
Submit your papers for the workshop via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ecodl2025