A Pilot of Smart Digital Library Used-Centered: The Project SMARTER

The paper presents the results of the national PoC project SMARTER, aimed at prototyping a smart DL for the management, interaction, and preservation of digitized and born-digital resources, related to ancient printed and manuscript artefacts. The research focused on the development of an innovative metadata schema structured by integrating the languages of the semantic web with conceptual ontologies, and on the experimentation of the applicability of the ICRPad intelligent recognition system (Pat. UIBM n. 0001407881) to large collections of digital objects, with the aim of making them interoperable with each other and, at the same time, usable also through direct interaction with the contents of the metadata. For the interaction with the digital collections, a set of innovative methods and technologies for management and display on the web has been designed, which allow users to interact with the digitized content through advanced tools.