Evaluation of Digital Libraries summarizes research and practice on both sides of the Atlantic and aims to answer the potential questions that both the theoretical and practical areas of digital library evaluation have posed during recent years. The book systematically presents aspects of participating communities, reasons and aims of evaluation, methodologies and metrics, and application paradigms.

• The book deals with practical and theoretical issues on digital libraries development and evaluation
• It will be multi-disciplinary due to its nature incorporating views and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2017, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2017. 39 full papers, 11 short papers, 10 poster papers and 7 doctoral consortium Presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 Submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as: linked data; corpora; data in digital libraries; quality in digital libraries; digital humanities; entities; scholarly communication; sentiment analysis; information behavior; information retrieval.