Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione Automatica

The Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione Automatica (CILEA) was a consortium of universities in Italy. Founded in 1974, it operated from headquarters in Milan.[1] In July 2013 CILEA merged into the CINECA academic consortium.

History

The consortium aimed to promote the applications of computer science to meet the needs of research and, secondly, university teaching. Over time the consortium diversified its activities and developed services related to electronic publishing, digital libraries,[1] high-performance computing,[2] software development, and technical support. It also increased its staff, and expanded its target audience to include both Lombardy and the rest of Italy.

In 1998 the consortium launched the CILEA Digital Library (CDL), which participated in several related groups: Osservatorio italiano sulla cooperazione per le risorse informative elettroniche (INFER), International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), and Southern European Libraries Link (SELL).[3] The library also collaborated with Italian consortia Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati & Editoria in Rete (CIBER) and Cooperazione Interuniversitaria Periodici Elettronici (CIPE).[3][1]

With the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche [it], the consortium developed the online MAI-MetaOPAC Azalai [it] in 1999.[4]

See also

• List of universities in Italy

References

1. Tommaso Giordano (2002). "Library co-operation on ICT in Italy: an overview". Program. 36 (3). ISSN 0033-0337.
2. "Ecco dove nascono ea cosa servono i supercomputer italiani nella lista dei Top 500 mondiali" [Where Italian supercomputers are born; Italian supercomputers on the list of the world's top 500], Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian), Milan, 30 October 2010
3. "Cilea Digital Library". Cilea.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
4. A. De Robbio; P. Rossi (2004). "MAI: MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano". Program: Electronic Library & Information Systems. 38.

Further reading

• "Bollettino del CILEA", Cilea. Bollettino. (in Italian), ISSN 1120-2440 1984-2012
• F. Valenziano (2000), Pauline Connolly; Denis Reidy (eds.), "CILEA Digital Library: an on-line library service for universities and for research", Digital library: challenges and solutions for the new mlennium, UK: International Federation of Library Associations
• Zeno Tajoli; et al. (2011). "OSS diffusion in Italian libraries: the case of Koha by CILEA" (PDF). OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives. 27 – via E-LIS.

External links

• Former official site: "Cilea.it" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
• "LEO, Letteratura Elettronica Online". Leo.cineca.it. (runs on Open Journal Systems software)