Providing access to the inaccessible: a new thematic digital library for the Venice lagoon

The paper we present is focused on the description of an innovative project: the creation of a digital thematic library called LVDL Laguna di Venezia Digital Library. It will collect published and unpublished documents arising from scientific studies about the Lagoon of Venice. LVDL is a personalized extension of the known system ETRDL (Ercim Technical Reference Digital Library) based on the Dienst protocol. Thanks to varying levels of document search and semantic descriptors, LVDL will satisfy many kind of users in the examined topics. As organized, this digital library has the potential to become a key thematic library for the multidisciplinary documentation related to the Venice Lagoon.