Pushing the Boundaries of the Digital Libraries Field: Preface IRCDL 2014 Procedia Computer Science 38 ( 2014 ) 1 – 3 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 1877-0509 © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IRCDL 2014 doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.10.001 ScienceDirect 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2014 Pushing the Boundaries of the Digital Libraries Field Preface IRCDL 2014 Maristella Agostia, Tiziana Catarcib, Floriana Espositoc* aDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131 Padua, Italy bDepartment of Computer Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ludovico Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy cDepartment of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy Abstract This contribution is the preface of the volume of post-proceedings of the 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2014. The volume contains the reports on the invited presentations and the accepted papers. The accepted papers were initially reviewed for presentation at the conference, and after the presentation the papers were resubmitted by the authors in a revised version that included the suggestions received during the presentation at the conference. The resubmitted versions of the papers were reviewed by at least three anonymous reviewers and the accepted papers were revised by the authors taking into considerations the reviewers’ suggestions. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IRCDL 2014. Keywords: Italian research conference on digital libraries; IRCDL; digital libraries; digital scholarship; digital cultural heritage; scientific communications IRCDL is a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics and IRCDL 2014 marks an important milestone for the field of digital libraries in Italy. In fact it is the tenth edition of this initiative, so, by looking back at what it has been done and documented through the various editions of IRCDL over the last decade, it reviews the current situation and lays the foundation for the future of the area. * Corresponding authors: all the Editors. E-mail addresses: agosti@dei.unipd.it, catarci@dis.uniroma1.it, floriana.esposito@uniba.it © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IRCDL 2014 http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1016/j.procs.2014.10.001&domain=pdf http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1016/j.procs.2014.10.001&domain=pdf 2 Maristella Agosti et al. / Procedia Computer Science 38 ( 2014 ) 1 – 3 The Italian community that meets annually at IRCDL is an active community that contributes to the achievement of European and international projects, and through its results can inform of what is happening in general in this area and give some guidance on what will be the new challenges and the boundaries of the area. One of the points of focus of IRCDL 2014 is emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of research on digital libraries which not only goes from computer science to humanities but also crosses areas in the same field, ranging, for example, from archival to librarian sciences or from information management systems to new knowledge environments. This is an ongoing challenge for the digital library field and there is need to continue to contribute to improve the cooperation between the many communities that share common objectives. The invited presentation by Tiziana Catarci Angela Di Iorio and Marco Schaerf on the Sapienza Digital Library addresses many of the challenges of this focus reporting on the design choices and implementation activities of interest for a major university that actively operates in research and teaching serving more than 150,000 students and staff members. To complement the topics addressed by the first invited talk, the invited presentation by Rossella Caffo, Director of the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU), which is an institute of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (MiBACT), reports on the digital cultural heritage projects at the national and European level, where ICCU is active and that are of interest in general and in particular for the libraries that face new challenges in contributing to the transfer of knowledge. The second major focus of IRCDL 2014 is on the profound change that is happening in the world of scientific communication, where the object of scientific communication is no longer a linear text, although digital, but an object-centric network that consists of text, data, images, videos, blogs, etc. This change is likely to deeply modify the nature and the role of the Digital Library and its relationship with the thematic data center. To introduce the major challenges that this focus requires to see addressed and to lay the foundations of the area, two invited talks were given. The first of these was by Gaby Appleton (Elsevier) on Future Trends in Digital Libraries and Scientific Communications, and the second was by Costantino Thanos (Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo”, Italian National Research Council, Pisa) on The Future of Digital Scholarship, and they addressed the characteristics of modern science and the need for the publication and consumption of scientific information to undergo radical changes also to produce an important transformational impact on the scholarly record. During the conference, the debate on the contents of these two talks was enriched by the contributions of Alberto Del Bimbo (Department of Systems and Computer Science of the University of Florence) and Carlo Tasso (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine). In addition to the excellent invited speakers, from amongst the submitted papers we selected 18 high-quality papers for inclusion in this volume of the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science series. The conference took place in the Aula Magna “Antonio Lepschy” of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, thanks to the support and sponsorship of the Department and of the European project CULTURA - CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity - Co-funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission (http://www.cultura-strep.eu/). Organisation Honorary Chair Costantino Thanos, Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo”, Italian National Research Council, Pisa Program Chairs Maristella Agosti, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua Tiziana Catarci, Department of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Management “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome Floriana Esposito, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” 3 Maristella Agosti et al. / Procedia Computer Science 38 ( 2014 ) 1 – 3 Program Committee Nicola Barbuti, Department of Sciences of Antiquity and Late Antiquity, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Giovanni Bergamin, National Central Library of Florence (BNCF), Florence Stefano Berretti, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence Marco Bertini, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence Maria Teresa Biagetti, Department of Documentary, Linguistics and Philology and Geography, Sapienza University of Rome Rossella Caffo, Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU), Rome Michelangelo Ceci, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Rita Cucchiara, Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Paola De Castro, Publishing Activities, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Alberto Del Bimbo, Department of Systems and Computer Science, University of Florence Stefano Ferilli, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Nicola Ferro, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua Paola Gargiulo, CINECA Costantino Grana, Engineering Department “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Maria Guercio, Department of History of Art and the Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome Donato Malerba, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo”, Italian National Research Council, Pisa Simone Marinai, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence Carlo Meghini Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo”, Italian National Research Council, Pisa Maurizio Messina, Marciana National Library, Venice Antonella Poggi, Department of Documentary, Linguistics and Philology and Geography, Sapienza University of Rome Giuseppe Santucci, Department of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Management “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome Marco Schaerf, Department of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Management “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome Gianmaria Silvello, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua Gianni Solimine, Department of Documentary, Linguistics and Philology and Geography, Sapienza University of Rome Anna Maria Tammaro, Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma Carlo Tasso, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine Francesca Tomasi, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna Paul G. Weston, Department of Humanities, University of Pavia Organizing Committee Debora Leoncini, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua IRCDL Steering Committee Maristella Agosti Tiziana Catarci Alberto Del Bimbo Floriana Esposito Carlo Tasso Costantino Thanos