Maristella Agosti is full professor in computer science, with a main focus on databases and information retrieval, at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova. She is the leader of the Information Management System (IMS) group of DEI and coordinates a number of national and international research projects. Her current interests are digital libraries, system architectures with a special focus on annotations, and multimedia digital archives.

• Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements.- From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It.- Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context.- Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming.- Automated Text Categorization: The Two-Dimensional Probabilistic Model.- Analysis of Web Link Analysis Algorithms: The Mathematics of Ranking.- Digital Annotations: a Formal Model and its Applications.- Music Indexing and Retrieval for Multimedia Digital Libraries.- A Statistical and Graphical Methodology for Comparing Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval.

From the reviews: "Agosti's introductory paper provides an interesting historical overview of IR, looking particularly at the role of the user in guiding research. She gives a number of examples where librarians and users have contributed to the development of IR systems, for example in the Digital Archive of Venetian Music (ADMV)." (Alastair G. Smith, The Electronic Library, Vol. 27 (1), 2009)