2026Q1 Reports: Anthology Director
Overview
The Anthology staff comprises Matt Post (director since 2019), two current paid assistants (David Stap, Ankur Kejriwal), and a number of volunteers. Over the past six months, active volunteers include Marcel Bollmann, Nathan Schneider, David Chiang, and Arne Koehn. We have lost our assistant, Xinru Yan, who took care of day-to-day operations, and I need to post an ad to find a replacement with a sharp editorial eye.
A. Seza Doğruöz continues to handle submission of main conference materials to various indexing services (Web of Science, Scopus).
Main items
Here are the main accomplishments and discussion points since July 2025:
- We completed our author transition to the use of ORCID iDs. This was a tremendous software engineering and planning effort championed mostly by Marcel Bollmann, Nathan Schneider, and myself, with input also from David Chiang and Arne Koehn. We are now working to advertise this to ensure that authors create iDs and add this information to their profiles in various submission systems. We are in communication with MIT Press, ARR, and Softconf (who added the information to their ACLPUB exports). We have contacted CCL. We are trying to reach LREC.
- Nathan Schneider has been working steadily through the author page backlog, where we manually verify and disambiguate author pages.
- Nathan Schneider created a very useful issues dashboard. We have reduced the number of open issues from 578 (on January 11) to 350 (March 11). This has been very useful. There are currently (March 11) 88 author page requests open, 32 paper metadata requests, 26 ingestions, and a number of other issues, ~150 assigned to milestones throughout this current calendar year
Plans
We continue to hope to be able to expand our citation framework to include plenary videos. This task is left over from last year and was stalled due to the intense amount of work required for the author transition.. There is some progress here but no news since the last report (#3603, #4309).