This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015,held in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2015.

The 22 full papers, 9 short papers, 7 panels, 6 doctoralconsortiium papers and 19 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 141 submissions. The papers for this 2015 conference cover topicssuch as digital preservation, gamification, text mining, citizen science, datacitation, linked data, and cloud computing.