Digital Libraries and Archives

1. Front Matter

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2. Panel

   1. Experiences and Perspectives in Management for Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage Resources (Panel)

      • Maristella Agosti

      Pages 1-3

   2. Where Do Humanities Computing and Digital Libraries Meet?

      • Dino Buzzetti

      Pages 4-10

   3. The ArchiMEDE Project for an Electronically Digitized Archive of Historical Monographs

      • Onofrio Erriquez

      Pages 11-12

   4. Considerations on the Preservation of Base Digital Data of Cultural Resources

      • Nicola Barbuti

      Pages 13-20

3. Papers

   1. Supporting Tabular Data Characterization in a Large Scale Data Infrastructure by Lexical Matching Techniques

      • Leonardo Candela, Gianpaolo Coro, Pasquale Pagano

      Pages 21-32

   2. Data Interoperability and Curation: The European Film Gateway Experience

      • Michele Artini, Alessia Bardi, Federico Biagini, Franca Debole, Sandro La Bruzzo, Paolo Manghi et al.

      Pages 33-44

   3. Annotating Digital Libraries and Electronic Editions in a Collaborative and Semantic Perspective

      • Michele Barbera, Federico Meschini, Christian Morbidoni, Francesca Tomasi

      Pages 45-56

   4. Empowering Archives through Annotations

      • Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello

      Pages 57-68

   5. Metadata Inference for Description Authoring in a Document Composition Environment

      • Tsuyoshi Sugibuchi, Ly Anh Tuan, Nicolas Spyratos

      Pages 69-80

   6. A Multi-layer Digital Library for Mediaeval Legal Manuscripts

      • Monica Palmirani, Luca Cervone

      Pages 81-92

   7. Extracting Keyphrases from Web Pages

      • Felice Ferrara, Carlo Tasso

      Pages 93-104

   8. Learning to Recognize Critical Cells in Document Tables

      • Nicola Di Mauro, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito

      Pages 105-116

   9. Document Image Understanding through Iterative Transductive Learning

      • Michelangelo Ceci, Corrado Loglisci, Lucrezia Macchia, Donato Malerba, Luciano Quercia

      Pages 117-128

   10. A Domain Based Approach to Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries

       • Fulvio Rotella, Stefano Ferilli, Fabio Leuzzi

       Pages 129-140

   11. Uncertain (Multi)Graphs for Personalization Services in Digital Libraries

       • Claudio Taranto, Nicola Di Mauro, Floriana Esposito

       Pages 141-152

   12. Improving Online Access to Archival Data

       • Vittore Casarosa, Carlo Meghini, Stanislava Gardasevic

       Pages 153-162

   13. Quick and Easy Implementation of Approximate Similarity Search with Lucene

       • Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Claudio Gennaro, Fausto Rabitti

       Pages 163-171

   14. Establishing a Digital Library in Wide-Ranging University’s Context

       • Angela Di Iorio, Marco Schaerf, Matteo Bertazzo

       Pages 172-183

   15. Digital Curators’ Education: Professional Identity vs. Convergence of LAM (Libraries, Archives, Museums)

       • Anna Maria Tammaro, Melody Madrid, Vittore Casarosa

       Pages 184-194

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, held in Bari, Italy, in February 2012. The 22 full papers, included together with 4 panel papers, were selected from extended versions of the presentations given at the conference, following an additional round of reviewing and revision after the event. The topics covered are as follows: legacy documents and cultural heritage; systems interoperability and data integration; formal and methodological foundations of digital libraries; semantic web and linked data for digital libraries; multilingual information access; digital library infrastructures; metadata creation and management; search engines for digital library systems; evaluation and log data; handling audio/visual and non-traditional objects; user interfaces and visualization; digital library quality; policies and copyright issues in digital libraries; scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication, user behavior and modeling; and preservation and curation.

• cultural heritage
• digital preservation
• document archives
• information retrieval
• linked open data

• Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro

• Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

  Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli

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