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XXI IRCDL: The Conference on Information
and Research science Connecting to Digital and
Library science 2025
Marcella Cornia1 , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio2 , Donatella Firmani3 , Stefano
Mizzaro4 , Giuseppe Serra4 , Sara Tonelli5 , and Alessandro Tremamunno4
1
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
2
University of Padua, Italy
3
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
4
University of Udine, Italy
5
Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
Foreword to the IRCDL 2025 Proceedings
Since its inception in 2005, the “Information and Research science Connecting
to Digital and Library science” (formerly Italian Research Conference on Dig-
ital Libraries, IRCDL) has been an important annual event for researchers on
Digital Libraries and related topics. Over the years IRCDL has become a sta-
ple in the national research landscape, focusing on technical, practical, as well
as social issues, while also attracting submissions from international researchers
from Europe and beyond.
IRCDL encompasses the realm of Digital Libraries (DLs) in all its forms,
including emerging types of information institutions, systems managing diverse
digital content, innovative methods for curating and distributing digital materi-
als, and theoretical perspectives on information media, such as document genres
and electronic publishing. Digital Libraries can be viewed as a modern type of
information institution, or an extension of traditional library services. Repre-
sentatives from various sectors of civil society, such as academia, government,
industry, research communities, research infrastructures, are invited to partic-
ipate in this conference. IRCDL draws from a broad, multidisciplinary array
of research areas including computer science, information science, librarianship,
archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, social
sciences, cultural heritage and humanities, and scientific communities.
The world of DLs is undergoing significant transformations, prompting IR-
CDL to expand its scope in order to adapt to these changes, with the aim of open-
ing up to new research communities, and offering new connections to the broad
field of Research and Information Science. IRCDL historically approached the
realm of DLs under a broad perspective, while also identifying three main areas
of interest, namely scholarly communication (e.g. research data, research soft-
ware, digital experiments, digital libraries), e-science, or computationally-intense
research (e.g. scientific workflows, Virtual Research Environments, reproducibil-
ity), and library, archive and information science (e.g. governance, policies, open
access, open science).
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IRCDL positions itself as part of the broader DL ecosystem, which also
includes the European “Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries” (TPDL),
the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), the
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the International Journal
of Digital Libraries, and it maintains connections to other initiatives, such as
the Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAI4CH),
organized by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.
IRCDL 2025 (https://ircdl2025.uniud.it/) was held at the Biblioteca
Rizzi of the University of Udine (Italy) on February 20-21, 2025. This year’s
edition features two tracks. The first track revolves around Computer Science
Foundations for Digital Libraries, with the aim of examining core computer sci-
ence concepts that are essential for digital libraries. It covers algorithms and
Artificial Intelligence methods for information retrieval and data management,
system architectures for large-scale digital collections, and practical applications
in areas such as academic research and cultural heritage preservation. The sec-
ond track is focused on Digital Humanities, in particular the exploration of the
intersection of digital technologies and humanities research. It examines com-
putational methods for analyzing and preserving cultural artifacts, text mining
techniques for large-scale literary analysis, and digital platforms for collaborative
scholarship.
IRCDL welcomed research papers, describing original ideas on aspects re-
lated to digital libraries, short papers reporting early research results or new
results on previously published works, as well as extended abstracts on previ-
ously published works. This year we accepted 17 regular papers, and 16 short
papers and extended abstracts. All papers were reviewed by two or three pro-
gram committee members selected in the National and International research
community.
February 2025
Conference Organisation
General Chairs
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine
Giuseppe Serra, University of Udine
Program Chairs
Marcella Cornia, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua
Donatella Firmani, Sapienza University of Rome
Sara Tonelli, Bruno Kessler Foundation
Technical Chairs
Andrea Brunello, University of Udine
Emanuela Colombi, University of Udine
Alessandro Locaputo, University of Udine
Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine
Publication Chair
Alessandro Tremamunno, University of Udine
Publicity Chairs
Lorenzo Balzotti, Sapienza University of Rome
Vittorio Cuculo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Stefano Marchesin, University of Padua
Beatrice Portelli, University of Udine
Website Chair
Michael Soprano, University of Udine
Social Activity Chair
Alex Falcon, University of Udine
Local Organisation Chairs
Ali Abdari, University of Udine
Mehdi Fasihi, University of Udine
Ian Gallegos, University of Udine
Daniele Lizzio Bosco, University of Udine