10 years of IRCDL: 2005–2014

Abstract

This paper reports on the presentation made during the “11th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2015)” held in Bolzano-Bozen, 29–30 January 2015, in the main building of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The presentation was given during the conference special session devoted to the report on the first ten editions of Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL). This paper gives an account on the general aspects of the history of IRCDL, whereas the report on the research topics and trends over time, and over the research community that has been built around IRCDL over ten years, can be found in [4].