Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB)
The Free University of Bozen–Bolzano (FUB) was founded on the 31st of October 1997 as a free, state-recognized university. It incorporates the School of Economics and Management, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Computer Science, the Faculty of Design and Art, and Faculty of Science and Technology. It's a three lingual university (courses are thought in Italian, English and German) and extremely international, students and lecturers come from all over the world.
FUB participation to the CACAO project is two-folded: it joins the expertise of the researchers of the KRDB (Knowledge Representation and DataBases) center and of the librarians of the University Library. The two institutions and their roles within CACAO are described below.
The KRDB Research Center at the Faculty of Computer Science was founded in 2002, and it now comprises about 20 researchers. The center aims at being an international center of excellence in basic and applied research on Knowledge Representation and Database technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas and technologies based on the developed research. The research topics include Conceptual Data Modeling Distributed and Web Information Systems, E-services, Computational Logic, and Logic-based Computational Linguistics.
The University Library's high quality standards are based on the following four pillars. (i) Openness: It offers an open shelves library which is accessible 24/24. Everybody can benefit from open study areas. Online resources (journals, databases) can be used wherever one has internet access. (ii) Learning & Teaching: With the Library's Electronic Reserve Collection lecturers can easily provide students with all material necessary for their courses. Librarians are actively supporting research with subject specific courses in evaluation of information sources. Furthermore, credit courses in information literacy are offered. (iii) Research: At the moment the holdings include 170.000 monographs, 70 databases, 1.500 print and 17.000 e-journals. (iv) Innovation: In order to support study and research the following tools are used: link resolver, federated search software, reference management software, research publications catalogue, multilingual catalogue (MUSIL).
In the CACAO project the KRDB research center contributed to the exploitation of classification systems within the CLIR (Cross Language Information Retrieval) system, as well as to the development of the CACAO infrastructure, the user interface and its usability evaluation (WP1, WP3, and WP4). The Library shared its knowledge in semantic cataloguing and national and international cataloguing standards and its experience in dealing with user needs and behavior in a multilingual environment (WP3, WP5, and WP6).
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