I’m a researcher at Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NeMIS) Laboratory of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI). I graduated in Computer Science in 2001 at University of Pisa and completed a PhD in Information Engineering in 2006 at University of Pisa.
My research interests include Data Infrastructures, Virtual Research Environments, Data Publishing, Open Science, Scholarly Communication, Digital Library [Management] Systems and Architectures, Digital Libraries Models, Distributed Information Retrieval, and Grid and Cloud Computing.
Important changes have characterised research and knowledge production in recent decades. These c... more Important changes have characterised research and knowledge production in recent decades. These changes are associated with developments in information technologies and infrastructures. The processes characterising research and knowledge production are changing through the digitalization of science , the virtualisation of research communities and networks, the offering of underlying systems and services by infrastructures. This paper gives an overview of gCube, a software system promoting elastic and seamless access to research assets (data, services, computing) across the boundaries of institutions , disciplines and providers to favour collaboration-oriented research tasks. gCube's technology is primarily conceived to enable Hybrid Data Infrastructures facilitating the dynamic definition and operation of Virtual Research Environments. To this end, it offers a comprehensive set of data
The open science movement is promising to revolutionise the way science is conducted with the goa... more The open science movement is promising to revolutionise the way science is conducted with the goal to make it more fair, solid and democratic. This revolution is destined to remain just a wish if it is not supported by changes in culture and practices as well as in enabling technologies. This paper describes the D4Science offerings to enact open science-friendly Virtual Research Environments. In particular, the paper describes how complete solutions suitable for realising open science practices can be achieved by integrating a social networking collaborative environment with a shared workspace, an open data analytics platform, and a catalogue enabling to effectively find, access and reuse every research artefact.
The workshop series on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs) started in 2008 [12] with the aim of ... more The workshop series on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs) started in 2008 [12] with the aim of fostering and initiating systematic and constructive discussions on the specific and rather novel research area of “very large digital libraries”. Before this, building on long experience in the field of digital libraries and data infrastructures, the authors have spent efforts in the definition of the Digital Library Reference Model [4, 3] and in the definition of the Digital Library Technology and Methodology Cookbook [1].
D4Science is a complex and innovative e-Infrastructure which is capable to support a powerful not... more D4Science is a complex and innovative e-Infrastructure which is capable to support a powerful notion of resources sharing and Virtual Research Environments. This report is the second version of a series (DJRA1.1) dedicated to document the design of the software system, named gCube, which has been used to realise such e-Infrastructure, by introducing the Reference Model and the Reference Architecture governing it. The design of the gCube Core Framework, the gCube Infrastructure Enabling services, the gCube Information Organisation services, the gCube Information Retrieval services and the gCube Presentation services are presented. The deliverable has been produced by starting from the previos version and changing the sections that need to be revised because of system design changes.
Post-proceedings of the First Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems (IRCDL 2005), Sep 1, 2005
This paper presents the architectures of both the OpenDLib library and of the DILIGENT infrastruc... more This paper presents the architectures of both the OpenDLib library and of the DILIGENT infrastructure motivating why we moved from one to the other and showing how they contribute to the definition of appropriate technologies for digital libraries. OpenDLib is a digital library system based on a dynamically configurable service-oriented architecture that can be distributed on several hosting nodes. DILIGENT is a digital library infrastructure built as a service-oriented application of the Grid infrastructure released by the EGEE ...
The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue contains bibliographic data on books and periodicals held by ... more The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue contains bibliographic data on books and periodicals held by the libraries of Wageningen University and Research Centre and some 15 associated libraries. Holding data are added to each record. ... Subjects covered include Agrotechnology, Food and Food Production, Plant and Animal Sciences, Soil Science, Geo-information, Landscape and Spatial Planning, Water and Climate, Ecosystem Studies, Economics and Society. ... The joint collections of the participating libraries cover a substantial part of ...
Le Biblioteche Digitali sono un universo complesso. L'evoluzione che questo universo ha subi... more Le Biblioteche Digitali sono un universo complesso. L'evoluzione che questo universo ha subito in termini di approcci, soluzioni e sistemi ha reso necessario elaborare una teoria fondazionale che permetta di unificare e sistematizzare l'insieme di conoscenze sviluppate nel settore. Il DELOS Digital Library Reference Model rappresenta un primo contributo verso questa teoria fondazionale risultante dal “collective understanding” maturato dalla comunità dei ricercatori che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo del settore. Il DELOS Digital Library ...
Le biblioteche digitali hanno assunto un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra società, chiamata oggi, ... more Le biblioteche digitali hanno assunto un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra società, chiamata oggi, significativamente, società della conoscenza. Questo nome segnala il superamento della “società dell'informazione” per la quale le biblioteche digitali promettevano, ed oggi stanno realizzando, un accesso universale all'informazione contenuta in biblioteche, musei e archivi. Per la società di oggi, infatti, le tecnologie introdotte con le biblioteche digitali stanno rivoluzionando l'intero percorso che porta dall' ...
La richiesta di biblioteche digitali sempre più ricche, capaci di soddisfare le esigenze che inso... more La richiesta di biblioteche digitali sempre più ricche, capaci di soddisfare le esigenze che insorgono in vari scenari della nostra società dell'informazione, ha fatto emergere sempre più la necessità di costruire tali sistemi basandoli sul riuso e la condivisione dell'esistente. In questo scenario la problematica dell'interoperabilità svolge un ruolo chiave. Nonostante l'importanza di tale problematica e le molteplici iniziative volte a risolverla, si può affermare che i risultati ottenuti sono, in media, limitati. Tra le principali ragioni di questa lenta evoluzione si annoverano la ...
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, 2010
In recent years scientists have been rethinking research workflows in favour of innovative paradi... more In recent years scientists have been rethinking research workflows in favour of innovative paradigms to support multidisciplinary, computationally-heavy and data-intensive collaborative activities. In this context, e-Infrastructures can play a crucial role in supporting not only data capture and curation but also data analysis and visualization. Their implementation demands seamless and on-demand access to computational, content, and application services such as those typified by the Grid and Cloud Computing paradigms. ...
Important changes have characterised research and knowledge production in recent decades. These c... more Important changes have characterised research and knowledge production in recent decades. These changes are associated with developments in information technologies and infrastructures. The processes characterising research and knowledge production are changing through the digitalization of science , the virtualisation of research communities and networks, the offering of underlying systems and services by infrastructures. This paper gives an overview of gCube, a software system promoting elastic and seamless access to research assets (data, services, computing) across the boundaries of institutions , disciplines and providers to favour collaboration-oriented research tasks. gCube's technology is primarily conceived to enable Hybrid Data Infrastructures facilitating the dynamic definition and operation of Virtual Research Environments. To this end, it offers a comprehensive set of data
The open science movement is promising to revolutionise the way science is conducted with the goa... more The open science movement is promising to revolutionise the way science is conducted with the goal to make it more fair, solid and democratic. This revolution is destined to remain just a wish if it is not supported by changes in culture and practices as well as in enabling technologies. This paper describes the D4Science offerings to enact open science-friendly Virtual Research Environments. In particular, the paper describes how complete solutions suitable for realising open science practices can be achieved by integrating a social networking collaborative environment with a shared workspace, an open data analytics platform, and a catalogue enabling to effectively find, access and reuse every research artefact.
The workshop series on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs) started in 2008 [12] with the aim of ... more The workshop series on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDLs) started in 2008 [12] with the aim of fostering and initiating systematic and constructive discussions on the specific and rather novel research area of “very large digital libraries”. Before this, building on long experience in the field of digital libraries and data infrastructures, the authors have spent efforts in the definition of the Digital Library Reference Model [4, 3] and in the definition of the Digital Library Technology and Methodology Cookbook [1].
D4Science is a complex and innovative e-Infrastructure which is capable to support a powerful not... more D4Science is a complex and innovative e-Infrastructure which is capable to support a powerful notion of resources sharing and Virtual Research Environments. This report is the second version of a series (DJRA1.1) dedicated to document the design of the software system, named gCube, which has been used to realise such e-Infrastructure, by introducing the Reference Model and the Reference Architecture governing it. The design of the gCube Core Framework, the gCube Infrastructure Enabling services, the gCube Information Organisation services, the gCube Information Retrieval services and the gCube Presentation services are presented. The deliverable has been produced by starting from the previos version and changing the sections that need to be revised because of system design changes.
Post-proceedings of the First Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems (IRCDL 2005), Sep 1, 2005
This paper presents the architectures of both the OpenDLib library and of the DILIGENT infrastruc... more This paper presents the architectures of both the OpenDLib library and of the DILIGENT infrastructure motivating why we moved from one to the other and showing how they contribute to the definition of appropriate technologies for digital libraries. OpenDLib is a digital library system based on a dynamically configurable service-oriented architecture that can be distributed on several hosting nodes. DILIGENT is a digital library infrastructure built as a service-oriented application of the Grid infrastructure released by the EGEE ...
The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue contains bibliographic data on books and periodicals held by ... more The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue contains bibliographic data on books and periodicals held by the libraries of Wageningen University and Research Centre and some 15 associated libraries. Holding data are added to each record. ... Subjects covered include Agrotechnology, Food and Food Production, Plant and Animal Sciences, Soil Science, Geo-information, Landscape and Spatial Planning, Water and Climate, Ecosystem Studies, Economics and Society. ... The joint collections of the participating libraries cover a substantial part of ...
Le Biblioteche Digitali sono un universo complesso. L'evoluzione che questo universo ha subi... more Le Biblioteche Digitali sono un universo complesso. L'evoluzione che questo universo ha subito in termini di approcci, soluzioni e sistemi ha reso necessario elaborare una teoria fondazionale che permetta di unificare e sistematizzare l'insieme di conoscenze sviluppate nel settore. Il DELOS Digital Library Reference Model rappresenta un primo contributo verso questa teoria fondazionale risultante dal “collective understanding” maturato dalla comunità dei ricercatori che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo del settore. Il DELOS Digital Library ...
Le biblioteche digitali hanno assunto un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra società, chiamata oggi, ... more Le biblioteche digitali hanno assunto un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra società, chiamata oggi, significativamente, società della conoscenza. Questo nome segnala il superamento della “società dell'informazione” per la quale le biblioteche digitali promettevano, ed oggi stanno realizzando, un accesso universale all'informazione contenuta in biblioteche, musei e archivi. Per la società di oggi, infatti, le tecnologie introdotte con le biblioteche digitali stanno rivoluzionando l'intero percorso che porta dall' ...
La richiesta di biblioteche digitali sempre più ricche, capaci di soddisfare le esigenze che inso... more La richiesta di biblioteche digitali sempre più ricche, capaci di soddisfare le esigenze che insorgono in vari scenari della nostra società dell'informazione, ha fatto emergere sempre più la necessità di costruire tali sistemi basandoli sul riuso e la condivisione dell'esistente. In questo scenario la problematica dell'interoperabilità svolge un ruolo chiave. Nonostante l'importanza di tale problematica e le molteplici iniziative volte a risolverla, si può affermare che i risultati ottenuti sono, in media, limitati. Tra le principali ragioni di questa lenta evoluzione si annoverano la ...
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, 2010
In recent years scientists have been rethinking research workflows in favour of innovative paradi... more In recent years scientists have been rethinking research workflows in favour of innovative paradigms to support multidisciplinary, computationally-heavy and data-intensive collaborative activities. In this context, e-Infrastructures can play a crucial role in supporting not only data capture and curation but also data analysis and visualization. Their implementation demands seamless and on-demand access to computational, content, and application services such as those typified by the Grid and Cloud Computing paradigms. ...
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