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  1. Deploying Conversational Agents in Virtual Research Environments: Approaches and Lessons Learned

    Article • SN Computer Science, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  2. Editorial: data science and AI for marine science and the blue economy

    Article • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  3. A Conversational Assistant for Geoscientists in Virtual Research Environments

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  4. The FAIR Assessment Conundrum: Reflections on Tools and Metrics

    Article • Data Science Journal, May 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  5. Congresso congiunto SGI-SIMP - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet

    Article • January 2024, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  6. ARIADNE Plus e il D4GNA – Dataset per il Geoportale Nazionale per l’Archeologia

    Article • DigItalia, June 2023, DigItalia - Rivista del digitale nei Beni Culturali

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  7. The D4Science Experience on Virtual Research Environments Development

    Article • Computing in Science & Engineering, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  8. Blue-Cloud: Exploring and demonstrating the potential of Open Science for ocean sustainability

    Article • October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  9. Virtual research environments co‐creation: The D4Science experience

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  10. Developing the EOSC-Pillar RDM Training and Support Catalogue

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  11. Global Food-source Identifier (GFI): Collaborative virtual research environment and shared data catalogue for the foodborne outbreak investigation international community

    Article • Food Control, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  12. A workflow language for research e-infrastructures

    Article • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  13. ReLock: a resilient two-phase locking RESTful transaction model

    Article • Service Oriented Computing and Applications, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  14. Measuring success for a future vision: Defining impact in science gateways/virtual research environments

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  15. Realizing virtual research environments for the agri‐food community: The AGINFRA PLUS experience

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Leonardo Candela, Mr Teodor Georgiev

  16. Digital Libraries

    Article • ACM SIGMOD Record, February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  17. Case Study: ENVRI Science Demonstrators with D4Science

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  18. Data Processing and Analytics for Data-Centric Sciences

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  19. RepOSGate: Open Science Gateways for Institutional Repositories

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  20. Virtual Research Environments for Environmental and Earth Sciences: Approaches and Experiences

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  21. AGINFRA PLUS: Running Crop Simulations on the D4Science Distributed e-Infrastructure

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  22. Using Virtual Research Environments in Agro-Environmental Research

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  23. Opening data and research objects in viticulture: The Viticulture Data Journal (VDJ)

    Article • Viticulture Data Journal, December 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Leonardo Candela, Mr Teodor Georgiev

  24. How D4Science supports Open Science

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  25. European Open Science Cloud

    Article • November 2019, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  26. Open Science

    Article • November 2019, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  27. Review of "Open Science"

    Article • Qeios, November 2019, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  28. Review of "Open Data"

    Article • Qeios, October 2019, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  29. Virtual Research Environment

    Article • October 2019, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  30. Open Science meets Food Modelling: Introducing the Food Modelling Journal (FMJ)

    Article • Food Modelling Journal, September 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Leonardo Candela, Professor Pavel E. Stoev, Mr Teodor Georgiev

  31. The gCube system: Delivering Virtual Research Environments as-a-Service

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  32. Methods and Tools for Supporting the Integration of Stocks and Fisheries

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  33. Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  34. Serving Scientists in Agri-Food Area by Virtual Research Environments

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  35. Big Data in Agricultural and Food Research: Challenges and Opportunities of an Integrated Big Data E-infrastructure

    Article • July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  36. On Research Data Publishing

    Article • July 2017, ScienceOpen

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  37. The conundrum of Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways, Virtual Laboratories, Collaboratories

    Article • July 2017, ScienceOpen

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  38. How Data Mining and Machine Learning Evolved from Relational Data Base to Data Science

    Article • May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  39. On research data publishing

    Article • International Journal on Digital Libraries, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  40. HyWare: a HYbrid Workflow lAnguage for Research E-infrastructures

    Article • D-Lib Magazine, January 2017, CNRI Acct

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  41. White Paper on Research Data Service Discoverability

    Article • Publications, December 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  42. Virtual research environments as-a-service by gCube

    Article • October 2016, PeerJ

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  43. Are Scientific Data Repositories Coping with Research Data Publishing?

    Article • Data Science Journal, April 2016, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  44. Unifying heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through the top level ontology MarineTLO

    Article • Program electronic library and information systems, February 2016, Emerald

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  45. Biodiversity facilities as-a-Service

    Article • Ecological Informatics, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Gianpaolo Coro, Dr Leonardo Candela

  46. Overview on Data Papers and Data Journals

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  47. Repository for scholarly communication

    Article • D-Lib Magazine, January 2015, CNRI Acct

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  48. Repositories for Open Science: The SciRepo Reference Model

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  49. Parallelizing the execution of native data mining algorithms for computational biology

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Gianpaolo Coro, Dr Leonardo Candela

  50. Realising Virtual Research Environments by Hybrid Data Infrastructures: the D4Science Experience

    Article • November 2014, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  51. The D-NET software toolkit

    Article • Program electronic library and information systems, August 2014, Emerald

    Dr Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli

  52. VREs and data infrastructure for biodiversity

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  53. Discussing metadata quality

    Article • Information Processing & Management, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  54. On computing species distribution models efficiently

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Gianpaolo Coro, Dr Leonardo Candela

  55. Supporting Tabular Data Characterization in a Large Scale Data Infrastructure by Lexical Matching Techniques

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gianpaolo Coro, Dr Leonardo Candela

  56. Integrating Heterogeneous and Distributed Information about Marine Species through a Top Level Ontology

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  57. Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research Agenda

    Article • Data Science Journal, January 2013, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  58. Data Interoperability

    Article • Data Science Journal, January 2013, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  59. OPEN Platform for Migration of Interactive Services

    Article • International Journal of Adaptive Resilient and Autonomic Systems, April 2012, IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  60. Fourth workshop on very large digital libraries

    Article • ACM SIGMOD Record, January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  61. Paving the Way for Interoperability in Digital Libraries: The DL.org Project

    Article • August 2011, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  62. An Approach to Virtual Research Environment User Interfaces Dynamic Construction

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  63. The D4Science Approach toward Grid Resource Sharing: The Species Occurrence Maps Generation Case

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  64. Deploying general-purpose virtual research environments for humanities research

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, July 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Mark Hedges, Dr Leonardo Candela

  65. On Digital Library foundations

    Article • International Journal on Digital Libraries, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  66. Realizing and Maintaining Aggregative Digital Library Systems: D-NET Software Toolkit and OAIster System

    Article • D-Lib Magazine, March 2010, CNRI Acct

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  67. Making Digital Library Content Interoperable

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  68. An Event-Centric Provenance Model for Digital Libraries

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  69. General-Purpose Digital Library Content Laboratory Systems

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  70. Report on the First DL.org Workshop on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations

    Article • D-Lib Magazine, November 2009, CNRI Acct

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  71. On‐demand virtual research environments and the changing roles of librarians

    Article • Library Hi Tech, June 2009, Emerald

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  72. Functional Adaptivity for Digital Library Services in e-Infrastructures: The gCube Approach

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  73. Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries

    Article • January 2009, IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  74. Report on the Third Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries

    Article • D-Lib Magazine, November 2008, CNRI Acct

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  75. DILIGENT: integrating digital library and Grid technologies for a new Earth observation research infrastructure

    Article • International Journal on Digital Libraries, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  76. Recommenders in a personalized, collaborative digital library environment

    Article • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  77. Digital Libraries: Research and Development

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  78. OpenDLibG: Extending OpenDLib by Exploiting a gLite Grid Infrastructure

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  79. Moving Digital Library Service Systems to the Grid

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  80. From Heterogeneous Information Spaces to Virtual Documents

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  81. The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and Its Collections Management

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  82. Enhancing the OpenDLib Search Service

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  83. A Service for Supporting Virtual Views of Large Heterogeneous Digital Libraries

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  84. Preface

    Article • June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  85. A Reference Architecture for Digital Library Systems: Principles and Applications

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  86. A Grid-Based Infrastructure for Distributed Retrieval

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  87. Sustainable Digital Library Systems over the DRIVER Repository Infrastructure

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  88. An Extensible Virtual Digital Libraries Generator

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  89. History, Evolution, and Impact of Digital Libraries

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  90. Infrastructure-Based Research Digital Libraries

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  91. History, Evolution, and Impact of Digital Libraries

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  92. OpenDLib

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  93. DILIGENT: A Digital Library Infrastructure for Supporting Joint Research

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Leonardo Candela

  94. Representation Information for Interoperability Now and with the Future

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Leonardo Candela