Carlo Meghini – Italy

Carlo Meghini is a prime researcher at ISTI. In more than two decades of work, he has published more than 50 papers in international conferences and journals in the area of information systems. Since the beginning of the 90’s, he is doing research on multimedia information retrieval, contributing the Multimedia Information Retrieval Model entry to the Encyclopedia of Database Systems

In the last 10 years, he focused on Digital Libraries, publishing both on practical and theoretical aspects of Digital Libraries.He has been a task leader on information access in the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries, and a contributor to the DELOS Reference Model.

He has been deputy director of the foundations of the BRICKS Project, an FP6 Integrated Project aiming at developing a distributed Digital Library Management System. From February 2009, he is co-leader of the technical Work Package of Europeana version 1.0 Thematic Network. He is presently Stream Director in the ASSETS Project, aiming at bringing advanced services to Europeana. For more information: www.nmis.isti.cnr.it