This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.
The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, bid data and data science in DL; cultural heritage; open science.
The chapter "Identifying, Classifying and Searching Graphic Symbols in the NOTAE System" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.