Speakers

Piero Attanasio got a master-of-science in economics at the University of Bologna. He has been working in book publishing since 1986 covering various positions in small sized academic publishing houses. In 1996 he joined the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) where he is currently head of international affairs, R&D programmes and academic publishing. He is a Board member at ISBN International Agency and Fondazione LIA, and member of the Copyright Policy Working Group of the International Publishers Association (IPA).

Piero was CEO at mEDRA (the IT spin-off of AIE) from 2004 to 2018 and board member in several international organisations such as the Federation of European Publishers (till Sept 2020), EDItEUR and the International DOI Foundation. He chaired the Standard and Technology Committee of IPA, the ARROW Association and the ISBN International Agency.

He is lecturer in the postgraduate course on publishing at the University of Milan.

His interest in trade and rights data date back to the ‘90ies. In 2005 he launched the idea of approaching the orphan work problem as the first use-case for the development of a “rights information infrastructure”. After then, he coordinated the technical working group of the European publishers on rights data in the Google Settlement case, directed the ARROW project and was involved with the Linked Content Coalition, the RELIRE project in France, the RDI and the ARDITO projects (coordinated by his team at AIE).

He is author of many articles and two monographs about the impact of technologies on book trade and rights management in the digital environment.

Luca Bellingeri, born in Rome in 1956, graduated in Letters and specialized in medieval history and in library science. As an official in the Ministry of the Cultural Heritage since 1985, he served at the National Central Library of Rome until 2008. Since 2008 he has been an executive and from May 2008 until March 2015, he was the director of the Estense University Library of Modena. As an executive inspector in the Ministry General Secretariat, since November 2015 he has been the director of the National Central Library of Florence, and since November 2018, he has been the ad interim director of the Marucelliana Library of Florence.

From 1998 until 2013 he was a Contract Lecturer in Library Legislation at La Sapienza University of Rome and, from 2010 until 2014, he even taught Public Rights Institutions, as well as Archives Legislation at the Paleography, Diplomacy and Archival School of the State Archive of Modena, and, since 2019, he has also been teaching Archives Legislation at the School of Florence.

As a vice chairman of the Technical Committee for both Libraries and Cultural Institutes from 2015 until 2016 and from 2019 until today; member of the Directive for the Association ‘Bianchi Bandinelli’, since 2014 he has been chairing the Committee for the certificate concerning the subscription of the partners to the Italian Library Association, ex lege n. 4/2013.

He has published more than 100 entries of encyclopedia, essays, articles and reviews on library science catalogues and journals.

Carlo Bianchini is currently associated professor in LIS at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia (2010- ). In addition to having published books and nearly 100 contributions in national and international journals, he is frequently an invited speaker at professional conferences. He is serving on the editorial boards of “JLIS.it” and “AIB Studi” and served in the editorial board of Bibliotheca. Rivista di studi bibliografici (2003-2007). Former Member of the Cataloguing Commission of Italian Library Association (2005-2011), he is an active member of Italian chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) and founding member of SISBB (Società Italiana di Scienze Bibliografiche e Biblioteconomiche). After earning his bachelor’s degree in LIS at University of Udine, Italy, his master’s in literature translation degree at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy and his Ph.D. degree in LIS at University of Udine, he worked as librarian at Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo (1991-1998) and at Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine (2000-2010), where, under his management, Ranganathan’s Colon Classification was used to organize library collections. His current main research interests deal with KO and faceted classifications, cataloguing, LOD and Wikidata, and information literacy and user studies.

Vincent Boulet is Head of Authority control and value vocabularies at the National Library of France. He is taking part in various projects at a national or at an international level regarding entities' and identifiers' management. He takes part to the ISNI and VIAF management. He is chair of the IFLA cataloguing section and member of the Committee on Standards of IFLA.

Simonetta Buttò (Rome 1957) obtained a master’s degree in Italian Literature and two specialisation degrees, in Modern Philology and in Codicology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She was Director of the University Library of Genoa, of the Library of Modern and Contemporary History in Rome and of the National Library “Vittorio Emanuele III” in Naples.

Since May 2015 she has been Director of the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU). In May 2020 she also took over the interim direction of the Library and Girolamini Monumental Complex in Naples.

Since 1998 she has taught as a professor in several institutions, including the universities of L’Aquila, Pisa and Siena, the “Scuola di Alta Formazione” of the MiBACT Central Institute for the Restoration and Preservation of Archives and Libraries Heritage, the National School of Administration (SNA), the “Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali”, and the “Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari” of the Sapienza University in Rome.

Currently, she is the editor-in-chief of «DigItalia: rivista del digitale nei beni culturali» and member of the Scientific Committee of the «Nuovi Annali della Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari» and of the Scientific and Reading Committee of the “Pagine diverse” series published by Pacini, Pisa.

She is also a corresponding member of the National Institute of Roman Studies, an ordinary member of the National Centre for Leopardi Studies and a representative of MiBACT within the Executive Council of the Lancisiana Academy. In June 2020 she was elected as a member of the Board of Arbitrators of the Italian Library Association-AIB.

In 2018, she has been awarded the Giambattista Gifuni Prize for her contribution in promoting books and reading.

Simonetta Buttò is the author of over one hundred publications, including catalogues, monographs, articles and critical essays.

John Chapman oversees cataloging applications, including Connexion and WorldShare Record Manager, as well as the WorldCat Metadata API. He also helps direct OCLC's linked data strategy. Prior to working at OCLC, he was Metadata Librarian for the University of Minnesota. During his career in libraries, he has received honors and professional recognition for accomplishments in corporate librarianship, special collections digitization, and metadata standards development.

Luigi Dei is an Italian academic, scientific commentator and full professor of chemistry at the University of Florence of which, since 2015, he has been Rector.

Specialising in so-called ‘soft matter’ with Nobel Laurate in Physics, Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Luigi Dei is a pioneer in the field of applied nanosciences and nanotechnologies for the conservation of cultural heritage, and participated in several international projects in these fields, leading two of them.

President of OpenLab (Center for Education and Scientific Dissemination) from 2012 to 2015, he is a member of various scientific societies and councils.

He is editorial reviewer for numerous international scientific journals and the author of more than 150 scientific publications in peer reviewed international scientific journals and books. Since 2009 he has devoted himself to scientific dissemination through different media, focusing on the relationship between science, art, and literature. In possession of strong communicative and acting skills, Dei uses the ‘conference-show’ as the main tool of his scientific dissemination activity.

In 2018 he received the Porcellino Award from the city of Florence, given every year to personalities who, in different professional fields, have contributed to enhancing the role of Florence as a symbol of culture and science.

Gordon Dunsire is an independent consultant living in Edinburgh, Scotland. His professional background is in academic libraries and research in digital libraries and bibliographic metadata. He is a former chair of the RDA Steering Committee. He has been involved in the development of IFLA’s bibliographic standards for several years, and is a recipient of an IFLA Medal.

Senior researcher, Lecturer in Information Science applied to Archives, Records Management and Digital Humanities and pro-rector for records management and archives at the University of Macerata since 2007. He previously worked for the Ministry of Culture and coordinated the Italian national archives information system. He is one of the coordinators of the University network of research for Social Sciences and ICT, past chief of the "PlayMarche srl" spin-off company and managing editor of JLIS.it and “Il Capitale Culturale” scientific journals. He directed the 2nd International Summer School in Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives and my main researches focus on records management and preservation metadata, and on quality, usability and users interaction of digital libraries and archives on line. He edited, with Milena Dobreva (University of Malta) and Andy O'Dwyer (BBC), the User Studies for Digital Libraries Development book, published by Facet Publishing.

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Giuliano Genetasio, Ph.D., has worked at the National Central Library of Rome since 2017, where he is in charge of the bibliographic control (legal deposit, cataloging, and indexing) of Central and Southern Italy publications. In the past, he worked at Casalini Libri as a cataloger and indexer for over ten years. He studied bibliography and cataloging with Mauro Guerrini. He is a member of the AIB Commission on National Libraries and Services and the ICCU Working Groups for SBN Indexing and Classification, for the Maintenance of SBN Personal Name Authority File, for the IFLA-LRM Translation and the RDA Translation. He wrote on conceptual modeling, cataloging principles and standards, subject indexing, authority control, and legal deposit. He collaborated in translating several works and standards from English to Italian.

Mauro Guerrini is full professor of LIS at the University of Florence, Department SAGAS.

His main interest is in bibliographic universe, cataloging, metadata, open access to scientific literature, and history of librarians. He is author of books and essays; member of the board of the main Italian, and some international journals of LIS. He was the main editor of the Italian translation of ISBD and RDA. Since 2002 he is dean of the Master Program on Cataloguing, and 2016-2019 dean of the LIS courses. From 2013 he is member of the board of the PhD in History Studies, University of Florence, with the University of Siena (with a LIS Section). He was chair of numerous national and international scientific conferences, including FRBR (2000), Electronic Resourses (2001), Authority control (2003), Linked data (2012), and Bibliographic Control in the digital ecosystem (2021); chair of the Italian Committee for the IFLA International Congress held in Milan in 2009; speaker in several conferences and seminars in Italy and in many countries. He chaired the AIB Cataloguing Section. From 2005 al 2011 he was the AIB President. He is a member of several international associations; for IFLA he was a member of the Cataloging Section, ISBD Review Group, FRBR Review Group, Classification Section, Subject Analysis; Bibliographic Section from 2018. Member of IME ICC of IFLA; from 2003 to 2009 he worked in drafting of new International Cataloguing Principles (ICP). Member of the Working Group on Open Access of the CRUI (2003-2009); chair of the CRUI Working Group on Metadata of institutional repositories. President of the Commission Open Access of the University of Florence. Since 2020 he is a member of the Working Group on Open Access of the Italian University Minister. From 2012 to 2016 he was the president of the Committee on Libraries and cultural institutions of the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Culture. He is reviewer for many journals, and for many university projects.

Klaus Kempf has been director of the “Digital Library and Bavarica” of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich since 2015. His background includes master’s degrees in law and economics as well as librarianship. Beginning his career as a reference librarian for economics, law and information science at the University of Bamberg, he has been interim director of the library of the Technische Universität Dresden, then director of the Department of Strategic Planning at the Directorate General of the Bayern State Libraries (1994-1999) and director of the Department of Acquisitions and Collection Development including the digital library of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, before commencing his current role. His numerous publications and presentations, mostly on library management and organisation, metadata and linked data, and on the digital library, are reference points for all librarians.

Forever an admirer of Italian language and culture, in 2007 he was given the title of Commendatore of the Italian Republic for the truly tireless role he has played in promoting the bonds of knowledge and friendship between the German and Italian people and culture. In 2014 he was representative of the German language world at the first congress of the States General of the Italian Language in the World at the Salone dei Cinque Cento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He is honorary member of the Italian Library Association (AIB).

Andrew MacEwan is the Head of Metadata at the British library with responsibility for the cataloguing and metadata production processes for all of the Library’s digital and print collections received on legal deposit. Andrew joined the Library in 1987 and has worked in a variety of roles across the library’s technical services departments. Internationally he has worked on a number of library working groups on name and subject authority control standards, including the IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR). Andrew also served as member of the Policy Committee of the Program For Cooperative Cataloging for 20 years from 1999 to 2019. He also was a member of the ISO Committee 27729 responsible for drafting the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). Since 2010 he has served on the governing Board of the ISNI International Agency.

Paola Manoni is the Head of the Coordination of IT Services at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV).

Her research and work area is focused on metadata, digital libraries, interoperability protocols and long term preservation for cultural heritage.

She is the chair of the UNI Technical Committee "Documentation and Information”. Under the responsibility of the above mentioned "Documentation and Information" Committee she is also the chair the Sub Committee “Technical interoperability”.

She represents the Vatican Library in many international initiatives such as the IIIF Consortium and, in this context, she is also co-charing the “IIIF Discovery for Humans” Working Group.

Maria Cristina Mataloni is a librarian at the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and bibliographic Information (ICCU), where she is in charge of the Area for the development and coordination of the National Library Service catalogue and network, in addition to heading up the Area for accessing bibliographic information and for the Italian libraries database. She is also in charge of the historical volumes and card catalogs of the Website of Italian Libraries, and she was a member of the workgroup on Linked Open Data in SBN and the Maintenance of the SBN Index.

Elisabeth Mödden studied civil engineering at the TU Braunschweig and completed her library traineeship at the TU Darmstadt. Since 2007, she was initially a subject specialist for computer science and technology at the German National Library (DNB) and in 2009 she began to work on automatic cataloguing procedures as part of a project. As of 2014 she is head of the department of Automatic Cataloguing Procedures, Net Publications (AEN) at the DNB.

Giulio Palanga has worked at BNCR since 1985. He studied bibliography and librarianship with Alfredo Serrai, catalog techniques with Diego Maltese, and Latin paleography with Armando Petrucci. He has always worked on serials. Since 2016 he has been in charge of the BNCR Newspapers and Periodicals Office. Since 1992 he is a member of the ICCU Working Group on Cataloguing in SBN(S). He held many training courses on the cataloging of periodicals. He collaborated in the drafting of the volume La catalogazione delle risorse elettroniche in SBN (1999), edited the CIP, Catalogo degli indici dei periodici of BNCR (2005), collaborated on the Italian translation and examples of ISBD(CR) (2007), collaborated in the drafting of the new Guide to the cataloging of modern material in SBN (2015), edited CAPUS, Catalogue of serial publications owned by the National Central Library of Rome (12 volumes, 2019).

Tiziana Possemato graduated in Philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1994. She obtained a diploma in Archival Science at the Vatican School of paleography, diplomatics and archives, a diploma in Library Science at the Vatican School of Library Science and, in 2013, a Master’s degree in Library Sciences at the University of Florence. She is currently a PhD student in Historical Studies, Book Sciences, Institutions and Archives curriculum at the University of Florence, with a research entitled Another Brick in the Wall: building bridges of knowledge in the digital age.

Over course of career, she has been and still is responsible for numerous library automation projects, analysis, mapping and conversion of catalogue data, and the design of information retrieval systems. A specific area of interest concerns Linked open data and the Semantic web.

She is Chief Information Officer of Casalini Libri and founding managing partner of @Cult.

Elena Ravelli is a librarian presently working at the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU). She is in charge of the Area for cataloguing standards, guidelines and tutorials, as well as of the Area for the bibliography, cataloguing and survey of early printed books. Since her joining in ICCU, she has cooperated in the project of National census of the 16th century Italian editions (EDIT 16). She currently participates to several national working groups of the National Library Service (SBN). In particular, she coordinates the Group for the management and implementation of the SBN Authority file - Places and the Group for the cataloguing of cartographic material in SBN. Since the beginning of 2020 she has been a member of the Commission for the maintenance, updating and dissemination of the Italian Cataloguing Rules – REICAT.

Pat Riva is Associate University Librarian, Collection Services at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pat completed her Masters in Library and Information Studies at McGill University, having undergraduate degrees in mathematics and linguistics. Pat's main interest is bibliographic standards development and translation, and she has served on standards committees for RDA, MARC 21, the Dewey Decimal Classification, and conceptual models at the national and international level. Pat chaired the Consolidation Editorial Group which prepared the IFLA Library Reference Model, approved as an IFLA standard in August 2017. She is serving on the IFLA Bibliography Section Standing Committee, and is chair of the LRMoo Working Group, which is working with the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group to update the FRBRoo model to align it with IFLA LRM.

Lucia Sardo

After a Degree in Cultural Heritage Conservation and a PhD in Bibliographic Sciences she has worked in private and public libraries. She is currently Junior assistant professor (fixed-term) at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Campus of Ravenna. She mainly deals with topics related to cataloguing theory, history of cataloguing and authority control.

Abigail Sparling is the Serials Metadata Librarian at the University of Alberta Library. Abigail is passionate about leveraging technology to improve resource description, management and discovery, which she explores in her work as a certified Library Carpentry Instructor and as co-chair of the ALCTS/Core Electronic Resources Interest Group. Since 2017 Abigail has been an active member of the international BIBFRAME community, and currently sits on the Share-VDE Transformation Council and Cluster Knowledgebase Working Group, and the LD4P Serials Affinity Group.

Osma Suominen is an information systems specialist at the National Library of Finland. He is currently working on automated subject indexing, in particular the Annif tool and the Finto AI service, as well as the publishing of bibliographic data as Linked Data. He is also one of the creators of the Finto.fi thesaurus and ontology service and is leading development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. Osma Suominen earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO series of projects.

Mattia Vallania

Librarian at Sapienza University of Rome since 2011, he works for the Library system, dealing with maintenance and technical assistance of the bibliographic database of the SBN Hub RMS, as well as the automation of users’ services.

Paul Gabriele Weston is associate professor at the University of Pavia, where he gives courses in cataloging, digital library management, and digital humanities. He is a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome and is on the board of the Centro Manoscritti, responsible for coordinating the development of the PAD (Pavia Archivi Digitali) project. His current lines of research include librarianship in nineteenth-century European libraries (in particular at the Vatican Library and the British Museum library) and medium- to long-term preservation of born-digital literary archives. From 1983 to 2000, he worked at the Vatican Library as coordinator of the retrospective conversion of the card catalogues and was a faculty member of the Vatican School of Librarianship, a post that he still holds as Invited Professor.

Andrea Zorzi is Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Florence and Director of the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS). In 2018/2019 he was visiting professor Chaire “Alphonse Dupront” at the Sorbonne Université. He also taught Digital Humanities at the University of Padua, Siena and Venice and has held lectures and seminaries in several universities round the world.

He is member of various research institutions and associations, as well as of many scientific committees of national and international journals.

His research focuses on Italian political history of late Middle Ages. On these topics he has published a large numbers of works (about 170 from 1987 to 2017) for prestigious publishers, such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford UP, Johns Hopkins UP, Brepols, Duncker & Humblot, Einaudi, Il Mulino, Carocci, Olschki, Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Press de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and many others.