This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, held in Corfu, Greece, in September/October 2009. The 28 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 panel description, the extended abstracts of 20 revised poster and 16 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on services, infrastructures, interaction, knowledge organization systems, interfaces, resource discovery, architectures, information retrieval, preservation, and evaluation.

Keynote Addresses.- Digital Libraries as Phenotypes for Digital Societies.- Curated Databases.- Special Session - Services.- Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries.- Annotation Search: The FAST Way.- wikiSearch - From Access to Use.- Special Session - Infrastructures.- Adding Quality-Awareness to Evaluate Migration Web-Services and Remote Emulation for Digital Preservation.- Functional Adaptivity for Digital Library Services in e-Infrastructures: The gCube Approach.- Managing the Knowledge Creation Process of Large-Scale Evaluation Campaigns.- Interaction.- Hear It Is: Enhancing Rapid Document Browsing with Sound Cues.- Creating Visualisations for Digital Document Indexing.- Document Word Clouds: Visualising Web Documents as Tag Clouds to Aid Users in Relevance Decisions.- Knowledge Organization Systems.- Exploratory Web Searching with Dynamic Taxonomies and Results Clustering.- Developing Query Patterns.- Matching Multi-lingual Subject Vocabularies.- Interfaces.- An Empirical Study of User Navigation during Document Triage.- A Visualization Technique for Quality Control of Massive Digitization Programs.- Improving OCR Accuracy for Classical Critical Editions.- Resource Discovery.- Using Semantic Technologies in Digital Libraries - A Roadmap to Quality Evaluation.- Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration.- Chance Encounters in the Digital Library.- Architectures.- Stress-Testing General Purpose Digital Library Software.- The NESTOR Framework: How to Handle Hierarchical Data Structures.- eSciDoc Infrastructure: A Fedora-Based e-Research Framework.- Collaborative Ownership in Cross-Cultural Educational Digital Library Design.- InformationRetrieval.- A Hybrid Distributed Architecture for Indexing.- A Concept for Using Combined Multimodal Queries in Digital Music Libraries.- A Compressed Self-indexed Representation of XML Documents.- Superimposed Image Description and Retrieval for Fish Species Identification.- Preservation.- Significance Is in the Eye of the Stakeholder.- User Engagement in Research Data Curation.- Just One Bit in a Million: On the Effects of Data Corruption in Files.- Formalising a Model for Digital Rights Clearance.- Evaluation.- Evaluation in Context.- Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions.- How People Read Books Online: Mining and Visualizing Web Logs for Use Information.- Usability Evaluation of a Multimedia Archive: B@bele.- Panels.- Digital Libraries, Personalisation, and Network Effects - Unpicking the Paradoxes.- DL Education in the EU and in the US: Where Are We?, Where Are We Going?.- Posters.- Conceptual Discovery of Educational Resources through Learning Objectives.- Organizing Learning Objects for Personalized eLearning Services.- Gaining Access to Decentralised Library Resources Using Location-Aware Services.- Thematic Digital Libraries at the University of Porto: Metadata Integration over a Repository Infrastructure.- Recollection: Integrating Data through Access.- A Gateway to the Knowledge in Taiwan's Digital Archives.- Developing a Digital Libraries Master's Programme.- The DiSCmap Project: Overview and First Results.- Securing the iRODS Metadata Catalog for Digital Preservation.- JSTOR - Data for Research.- Improving Information Retrieval Effectiveness in Peer-to-Peer Networks through Query Piggybacking.- The Planets Interoperability Framework.- Improving Annotations in Digital Documents.- Workspace NarrativeExploration: Overcoming Interruption-Caused Context Loss in Information Seeking Tasks.- SyGAR - A Synthetic Data Generator for Evaluating Name Disambiguation Methods.- Searching in a Book.- Searching Archival Finding Aids: Retrieval in Original Order?.- Digital Preservation and Access of Audio Heritage: A Case Study for Phonographic Discs.- Data Recovery from Distributed Personal Repositories.- Demos.- A Web-Based Demo to Interactive Multimodal Transcription of Historic Text Images.- Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries.- Active Preservation.- Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries on Data Grids.- GROBID: Combining Automatic Bibliographic Data Recognition and Term Extraction for Scholarship Publications.- Building Standardized Digital Collections: ResCarta Tools, a Demo.- Digital Libraries - New Landscapes for Lifelong Learning? The "InfoLitGlobal"-Project.- REPOX - A Framework for Metadata Interchange.- A Visualization Tool of Probabilistic Models for Information Access Components.- User Interface for a Geo-Temporal Search Service Using DIGMAP Components.- Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.- Digital Mechanism and Gear Library - Multimedia Collection of Text, Pictures and Physical Models.- Demonstration of User Interfaces for Querying in 3D Architectural Content in PROBADO3D.- Hoppla - Digital Preservation Support for Small Institutions.