Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB)
The Free University of Bozen–Bolzano (FUB) was founded on the 31st of October 1997 as a free, state-recognized university. It incorporates the School of Economics and Management, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Computer Science, the Faculty of Design and Art, and Faculty of Science and Technology. It's a three lingual university (courses are thought in Italian, English and German) and extremely international, students and lecturers come from all over the world.
FUB participation to the CACAO project is two-folded: it joins the expertise of the researchers of the KRDB (Knowledge Representation and DataBases) center and of the librarians of the University Library. The two institutions and their roles within CACAO are described below.
The KRDB Research Center at the Faculty of Computer Science was founded in 2002, and it now comprises about 20 researchers. The center aims at being an international center of excellence in basic and applied research on KRDB technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas and technologies based on the developed research. The research topics include Conceptual Data Modeling and Ontology Design, Intelligent Information Access and Query processing, Information Integration, Peer to Peer systems, Semistructured Data, Distributed and Web Information Systems, E-services, Computational Logic, and Logic-based Computational Linguistics.
The University Library's high quality standards are based on the following four pillars. (i) Openness: It is offered an open shelves library which is accessible 24/24. Everybody can benefit from open study areas. Online resources (journals, databases) can be used wherever one has internet access. (ii) Learning & Teaching: With the Library's Electronic Reserve Collection lecturers can easily provide students with all material necessary for their courses. Librarians are actively integrating information research and evaluation trainings for subject specific courses. Furthermore, credit courses in information literacy are offered. (iii) Research: At the moment the holdings include 150.000 monographs, 70 databases, 1.500 print and 17.000 e-journals. (iv) Innovation: In order to support study and research the following tools are used: linking system, federated search software, reference management software, research publications catalogue, multilingual catalogue (MUSIL).
The KRDB research center will contribute to the extraction of classification mappings, and the exploration of the classification systems for the navigation of Library Catalogues, as well as to the development of the CACAO infrastructure and evaluation of usability.
In the CACAO project the library shares its knowledge in semantic indexing and national and international cataloguing standards and its experience in dealing with user needs and behavior in a multilingual environment. Hence, the KRDB center will provide the technical support and the research experience needed for the following work packages: WP1, WP3 and WP4.The library will contribute to the WP 2, 3, 7.
Key People involved in the CACAO project are Raffaella Bernardi (Principal Investigator, KRDB), Daniele Gobbetti (KRDB), Elisabeth Frasnelli (Head of the Library), Paolo Buoso (Library) and Luigi Siciliano (Library).
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