The Manuscriptorium Digital Library is seamless aggregator of data from ca. 100 memory institutions in Europe. It offers tools for data contributors as well as for user-oriented personalization. The metadata from Manuscriptorium are used by many other services, such as The European Library, EUROPEANA, or SUMMON and EBSCO resource discovery services.

This paper presents the participation of the CACAO prototype to the Log Analysis for Digital Societies (LADS) task of LogCLEF 2009 track. CACAO (Cross-language Access to Catalogues And On-line libraries) is an EU project devoted to enabling cross-language access to the contents of a federation of digital libraries with a set of software tools for harvesting, indexing and serching over such data...

Modern societies are producing and consuming an enormous amount of information every day. The need for quality organized information has been growing rapidly. Various digital libraries (DLs) have been developed to address this need. However, additional focus on education for people who design and administer digital libraries is needed. We can begin to solve this problem through development of c...

Research papers disseminate the knowledge produced by the scientific community. Access to this literature is crucial for researchers and the general public. Apparently ‘bibliogifts’ are available online for free from text-sharing platforms. However, little is known about such platforms. What is the size of the underlying digital libraries? What are the topics covered? Where do these documents o...

New ITCs have proven to be useful tools for implementing innovating didactic and pedagogical formula oriented to enhance students’ en teachers’ creativity. The up-and-coming massive e-learning and blended learning projects are clear examples of such a phenomenon. The teaching of oral communication offers a perfect scenario to experiment with these formulas. Since the traditional face to face ap...

The LADS (Log Analysis for Digital Societies) task at CLEF aims at investigating user actions in a multilingual setting. We carried out an analysis of search logs with the objectives of investigating how users from different linguistic or cultural backgrounds behave in search, and how the discovery of patterns in user actions could be used for community identification. The findings confirm that...

This paper raises the issue of missing standardised data sets for recommender systems in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) that can be used as benchmarks to compare different recommendation approaches. It discusses how suitable data sets could be created according to some initial suggestions, and investigates a number of steps that may be followed in order to develop reference data sets that w...

In 2009 was first time when we built a system in order to participate in the TEL@CLEF competition. In this competition the aim is to build retrieval algorithms on multilingual collections of catalog records from TEL collections. Our system has four main components: the pre-processing and indexing component, the component responsible with applying rules, the translation component and the searchi...