IRCDL is a yearly event for Italian researchersworking onDigital Libraries-related
topics. This year the focus of IRCDL was on information access and interoperability.
In fact Digital Library systems are starting to be mature, but it is time
to give a more effective and personalized access to information to users and to
improve interoperability among heterogeneous available systems. The Semantic
Web is emerging as a set of tools and methods that can respond to many of the
Digital Library requirements, and linked data, in particular, are likely to play a
central role in interoperability.
The IRCDL conferences were launched and initially sponsored by DELOS,
an EU FP6 Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries together with the Department
of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy. Over
the years IRCDL has become a self-sustainable event supported by the Italian
Digital Library Research Community.
The volume contains the revised accepted papers from among those presented
at the 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2011), which
was held in the Institute for Information Science and Technologies of the Italian
National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy, during January 20–21, 2011.
The aim of IRCDL is to bring together the Italian research community interested
in the diversified methods and techniques that allow the building and
operation of Digital Libraries. A national Program Committee was set up composed
of 15 members, with representatives of the most active Italian research
groups in Digital Libraries.