This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International
Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013
(formerly European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for
Digital Libraries, ECDL) held in Valletta, Malta, in September 2013. The
24 full papers, 13 short papers, 22 posters and 8 demonstrations
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 158
submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research topics, clustered
in four broader areas: foundation, infrastructures, content, and
services. They have been organized in topical sections on conceptual
models and formal issues, aggregation and archiving, user behavior,
digital curation, mining and extraction, architectures and
interoperability, interfaces to digital libraries, semantic web,
information retrieval and browsing, and preservation. Also included are
6 tutorials and 2 panels.