Research Areas

Database Technologies

• XML & Semistructured Databases
• Information Retrieval
• Database Query Languages
• Answering queries using views
• Logic Programming and Deductive Databases

Data and Knowledge Organization

• Metadata standards for Libraries, Archives and Museums
• Data and Metadata Integration
• Metadata Interoperability
• Ontologies and Semantic Web
• Semantic Data Integration
• Ontology Languages

Information Systems

• Digital Library Evaluation
• Information Services Evaluation
• User Modeling, Personalization and Information Filtering
• User Interaction in Information Spaces
• Collaborative Information Retrieval
• Social Networking and Web 2.0