Maristella Agosti Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy Office: n. 306, third floor, via Gradenigo 6/a Postal address: Via Gradenigo 6/a, I-35131 Padova Phone: +39 049 827 7650, Fac-simile: +39 049 827 7799 E-mail: maristella dot agosti at unipd dot it

Professor of Computer Science, Department of Information Engineering (DEI) and Faculty of Humanities (until the closing of the Faculty on 31 December 2011), University of Padova, Italy. Group leader of the Information Management Systems (IMS) Research Group of the Department. PC Member of the PROMISE Winter School on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization. Co-Chair of DESIRE 2011, the Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2011. Co-Chair of PMHR 2011, the First Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval in conjunction with ACM Hypertext 2011. Program Co-Chair of the 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece. Editor of: Access through Search Engines and Digital Libraries. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2008. Member of the Scientific Board of the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) and of the Advisory Board of the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC). Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Digital Libraries, Springer-Verlag.

EU Research Projects

CULTURA: CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity (Leader of WP6 on Dissemination and Exploitation and leader of the unit of the Department).

PROMISE: Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation (Leader of WP3 on Evaluation Infrastructure and participant of the unit of the Department).

Recent Past EU Research Projects

EuropeanaConnect: A Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission within the area of Digital Libraries of the eContentplus Programme (Participant of the unit of the Department).

TELplus: A building brick in the creation of Europeana, the European digital library, museum and archive. TELplus is aimed to strengthen, extend and improve The European Library service (Leader of the unit of the Department).

TrebleCLEF: Project on Evaluation Best Practice and Collaboration for Multilingual Information Access (Participant of the unit of the Department).

SAPIR: Project on Search on Audio-visual content using Peer-to-peer Information Retrieval (Leader of the unit of the Department).

Research Interests

Digital information infrastructures, digital libraries, digital library management systems, digital library architectures, information retrieval, search engines, analysis of log data in digital libraries and search engines, annotation of digital contents, Web link analysis for IR, design and development of advanced services for archives and digital libraries. A short Curriculum Vitae and a list of recent publications.