Russian Digital Libraries Journal publishes original scientific articles and analytical reviews on the following areas of research:

  • Create a collection of electronic documents; development tools digital libraries and digital collections;
  • Translation of traditional documents in electronic form;
  • Integration, interoperability and mashups of heterogeneous information resources, standards and protocols;
  • Long-term storage of electronic materials and data indexing;
  • Preservation of electronic documents;
  • Search tools and providing access to diverse information;
  • End-user requirements for accessing and interfaces;
  • Copyright and the use of electronic documents;
  • Economic aspects of the creation and use of digital libraries;
  • Issues of information security;
  • The role of digital libraries in the process of continuing education and training;
  • Strategy of development of telecommunications and information resources;
  • Analysis of the data in social networks;
  • Virtual environments for research, information environment of joint development;
  • The integration of publishing and digital libraries;
  • Data mining, knowledge extraction;
  • Infrastructure systems with intensive use of data;
  • The quality of digital resources, quality metrics, data cleansing;
  • Composite presentation of content: multimedia, geographic, statistical and other data;
  • Crowdsourcing;
  • Metadata, ontologies, conceptual modeling;
  • Models, architecture and infrastructure of digital libraries;
  • Data Model: structured, semi-structured, graph, multi-dimensional, etc.;
  • Models and means of massively parallel data analysis;
  • Modeling the behavior of users, user interfaces, interface personalization, recommender systems;
  • Scientometrics and informetrics in digital libraries;
  • Prospective projects of digital libraries in science and other fields: approaches, technologies, experience in implementation;
  • Search and analysis of textual and multimedia information;
  • Applications with intensive use of data in the cloud and grid infrastructures;
  • Semantic Web related data (Linked Data);
  • Semantic aware services; context awareness services with access to information;
  • The semantic structuring of the content of digital libraries;
  • Social networking services and dynamically generated content;
  • Standards of Digital Libraries technologies;
  • Technology Big Data;
  • Technology data streams;
  • Digital curation, preservation and archiving; provenance of data;

Key words: digital libraries, digital platforms, metadata, ontologies, conceptual modeling, data mining, knowledge extraction, semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data technologies, scientometrics in digital libraries.