National Research Council Institute of Information Science and Technologies (http://www.isti.cnr.it/)
  
Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NMIS) (http://www.isti.cnr.it/ResearchUnits/Labs/nmis-lab/)
  
Dr. Costantino Thanos (Scientific Coordinator)
  

  
CNR-ISTI has carried out research in the digital library domain since 1996. This research has been conducted mainly within the framework of European and nationally funded projects including DELOS under FP5, ECHO, Scholnet, Cyclades, CLEF, and OAF. With the exception of OAF, CNR-ISTI is responsible for the scientific coordination of all these projects. These projects have stimulated numerous research and experimental activities. Current work includes: i) the derivation of algorithms for evaluating queries expressed in the terms of different ontologies, including queries drawn from more than one ontology; ii) the design of open, scalable, and distributed architectures to support the inherently ever-expanding nature of digital libraries; iii) the definition of techniques supporting content-based access to multimedia digital libraries (e.g., audio-visual or image content), iv) methodologies for the evaluation of multilingual information retrieval systems. CNR-ISTI will also represent the CLEF consortium in the NoE. This consortium studies and develops infrastructures for the evaluation of multilingual information retrieval systems. Members are: Eurospider Information Technology (CH), Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos – Univ. Nacional de Educaciòn a Distancia, Madrid (ES), Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften - Bonn (DE), Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (FR), Department of Information Studies – Univ. of Tampere (FI), Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica - Istituto Trentino di Cultura (IT), Univ. of Twente - Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (NL), Human Computer Interaction and Language Engineering Lab.- SICS (SV).