DOCENG

We are truly pleased to welcome you to the 2014 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng14). DocEng14 is being held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, on 16-19 September, 2014. This year's DocEng Symposium continues and expands its tradition as the premier international forum for presentations, discussions, demonstrations and other sharing of the principles, technologies and processes for improving our capabilities in creating, managing and maintaining documents. This year's Symposium includes special focus on the digital humanities, document classification and clustering, document management and text similarity research. A highlight will be the two keynotes:

• The Evolving Scholarly Record: New Uses and New Forms, by Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)

• Web-Intrinsic Interactive Documents, by Tony Wiley (HP Exstream R&D)

Building on events introduced in last year's Symposium, we have four accepted entries in this year's Doctoral Consortium (ProDoc@DocEng), aimed at providing expert advice to PhD-seeking students in the field of document engineering. We also have another "Birds of a Feather (BoF)" discussion group organized by Patrick Schmitz. This is also the sophomore year of the DocEng Best Student Paper Award. In addition, DocEng14 continues to provide an ACM SIGWEB DocEng Best Paper Award. The first day of the four-day conference is devoted to three workshops (DChanges 2014, SemADoc, and DH-CASE II), and one tutorial (PDF Tutorial): these are all-day events running in four parallel sessions.

A large and diverse set of submissions were received from all six inhabited continents. DocEng14 received 41 full paper submissions of which 15 were accepted (37%) and a further 41 short paper, application note and poster submissions of which 14 were accepted (34%). We want to thank all of those who contributed papers, ensuring a high-quality technical program and an exciting and interesting conference. We are very grateful to the assiduous and talented Program Committee and the additional reviewers who prepared more than 250 thoughtful and thorough reviews and then participated in the final selection discussions.