3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2025) is the third iteration of a biennial online workshop -- held as part of the ACM/IEEE Join Conference on Digital Libraries -- that focuses on digital libraries that preserve, curate, and provide online access to language materials. LangArc-2025 continues (after LangArc-2021 and LangArc-2023) addressing the growing need and explores a broad scope of issues related to digital language archives. This includes challenges and opportunities, strategies and solutions for facilitating depositing and improving access; information organization, architecture, and retrieval; quality assurance; analytics; integration of GenAI in workflows; usability; ethical issues; ways of encouraging reuse of deposited data in research and education; training for digital language archivists. This workshop is intended to advance and sustain interdisciplinary partnerships between information professionals and researchers, linguists, historians, anthropoligists, educators, representatives of language communities (including Indigenous and other underrepresented), students, and other interested audiences.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original contributions that are not previously published. The workshop submissions are expected to be in the form of extended abstracts between 1500 and 2000 words and would typically include:

• research question(s) and/or problem(s),
• background and brief review of relevant literature, 
• methods / design of research or practical implementation project, 
• findings or results (could be preliminary for submissions reporting work-in-progress) and their brief discussion, 
• a statement of significance, and
• conclusions and future work (optional for the work-in-progress submissions). 

Extended abstracts should be submitted by November 2, 2025. To ensure quality, all submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors are instructed not to include their identity, affiliation(s) or contact details in the initial submission, and to anonymize any references that would reveal the authorship. These details will be added in the final versions of accepted extended abstracts to be submitted by December 12, 2025.

List of Topics

The topics of submissions include but are not limited to:

• user studies, including examinations of user needs, usability, and user experience evaluations in digital language archives;
• legislative, administrative, economic, and other factors affecting digital language archives;
• theory and history of digital language archives;
• archivists’ partnerships with language communities for providing access to language materials in their local cultural and historical collections;
• ethical issues in digital language archives, including issues related to providing access to legacy and family materials, materials for which provenance is unknown or sketchy;
• approaches, methods and techniques for collection development (including selection and digitization of materials, self-deposit and mediated deposit practices), information architecture, information organization, metadata, information retrieval (including multi-lingual and cross-lingual), quality assurance in digital language archives;
• evaluations (case studies and comparative analyses) of various features of digital language archives; digital language archive stewardship training and curriculum development initiatives;
• use of emerging capabilities of generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools in the workflows of digital language archives.

Important Dates

• November 2, 2025, anywhere on Earth (AoE): deadline for submission of extenbded abstracts (1500-2000 words)
• November 20, 2025, AoE: notification of acceptance and reviewers' feedback returned to authors of submissions 
• December 1, 2025, AoE: registration deadline for authors of accepted submissions (at least one author must be registered for JCDL 2025 conference at https://2025.jcdl.org/registration/)
• December 12, 2025, AoE: deadline for submission of the final version of accepted short paper (revised based on reviewers' feedback) for publication in LangArc-2025 workshop proceedings
• December 15, 2025, AoE: workshop date
• December 15-19, 2025, AoE: JCDL 2025 main conference

Publication

Submissions accepted for the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2025) will be published in the workshop proceedings as Open Access publications. Please see the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2021) and  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2023)

Venue

Third International Workshop on Digital Language Archives will be held as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025 online on December 15, 2025. The workshop will consist of live online session(s) scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for registered participants.

Contact

All questions should be emailed to workshop organizers:

• Dr. Oksana L. Zavalina (Oksana.Zavalina@unt.edu), Professor, Department of Information Science, College of Information, University of North Texas.
• Dr. Shobhana L. Chelliah (schellia@iu.edu), Professor, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington
• Dr. Mary Burke (MaryBurke@my.unt.edu), Department of Information Science, College of Information, University of North Texas