Personalisation and recommender systems in digital libraries. Joint NSF-EU DELOS working group report

Digital libraries are collections of information that have associated services delivered touser communities using a variety of technologies. The collections of information can bescientific, business or personal data, and can be represented as digital text, image, audio,video, or other media. This information can be digitised paper or born digital materialand the services offered on such information can be varied, ranging from contentoperations to rights management and can be offered to individuals or user communities.Internet access has resulted in digital libraries that are increasingly used by diversecommunities for diverse purposes, and in which sharing and collaboration have becomeimportant social elements.