Web-Scale Discovery Services

Roberto Raieli is the Director of the Department of History, Anthropology, Religion, Art and Performing Arts Library at the Sapienza University in Italy. He is also interim Director of the ‘Angelo Monteverdi’ Library for Philological, Linguistic, and Literary Studies at the same institution. He holds a PhD in Bibliographic, Archival and Documental Sciences, and his research interests include information science, digital libraries, information retrieval, documentation, and the semantic web. Elena Corradini is a translator and a librarian. She is currently a tutor and adjunct teacher for the DILL Digital Library Learning master’s degree, organised by Parma, Tallinn and Oslo Universities. She holds an MA/MSc in International Information Studies from the University of Parma, Italy, and Northumbria University in the UK. She has also held positions as a subject librarian at the Istituto Trentino di Cultura, and as a public librarian at the Municipal Library of Ala in Trento.

Part One
1. Evolution of the search systems
1.1 The innovation of the OPACs
1.2 Search, interaction and discovery
1.3 The technologies of discovery systems

2. The search and discovery tools
2.1 Definition and disambiguation of tools and resources
2.2 Tabs of the major discovery systems
2.3 Viewing data in catalogs and discovery systems

Part Two
3. Principles and theories
3.1 The linked data methodology
3.2 Potentiality and criticality of the new methods
3.3 New definitions of resource

4. Information discovery and information literacy
4.1 Information retrieval and discovery
4.2 Discovery tools and information literacy
4.3 Information literacy and people