«... I believe in the future of Russian enlightenment...»

The article is devoted to life and activity of Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin, a famous Russian book-seller and enlightener of late ХIХ - early ХХ centuries. Along with primers, books and textbooks, which were available for impoverished village people, Sytin spread his countless calendars have becoming really popular encyclopedias.

Engineering Adaptive Concept-Based Systems for the Web

In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in adaptation and personalization in numerous application domains including business, education, and so forth. Applications that offer large bodies of information have in the Web era turned into systems with a significantly different nature than two decades ago. Think of the typical book catalog database from 20 years ago and the Web site of a book seller nowadays. A characteristic aspect of the restyling is the attention paid to the individual user. Technology has evolved and now allows application designers to include adaptation and personalization in the applications. This is especially important in the field of e-commerce, where users (customers) expect personalized services similar to those they receive in a conventional store. Typical e-commerce systems employ large bodies of information. In the case of a bookstore Web site, the designer defines an appropriate structure for the collection of books with all relevant properties. Generally, the design uses structures of concepts, where the concepts represent the actual information objects. The adaptation engineering is later performed on the level of these (abstract) concepts. We refer to these applications as concept-based systems. Adaptive concept-based systems are especially accepted in areas where the main goal is to tailor large amounts of information to the individual preference and knowledge state of the user. Besides electronic commerce, other examples include online museums (the visitor wandering through the collection on an individual basis) and e-learning applications (the student being involved with learning material in a way that the teacher thinks fits the student’s situation).

Semi-Automatic Derivation and Application of Personal Privacy Policies

The recent fast growth of the Internet has been accompanied by a similarly fast growth in the availability of Internet e-business services (e.g., electronic book seller service, electronic stock transaction service). This proliferation of e-business services has in turn fueled the need to protect the personal privacy of e-business users or consumers. We propose a privacy policy approach to protecting personal privacy. However, it is evident that the derivation of a personal privacy policy must be as easy as possible for the consumer. In this chapter, we define the content of personal privacy policies using privacy principles that have been enacted into legislation. We then present two semi-automated approaches for the derivation of personal privacy policies. The first approach makes use of accepted privacy rules obtained through community consensus (from research and/or surveys). The second approach makes use of privacy policies already existing in a peer-to-peer community. We conclude the chapter by explaining how personal privacy policies can be applied in e-business to protect consumer privacy.

RICOSTRUIRE LA BIBLIOTECA DI UNO SCIENZIATO: IL CASO DI A. M. LORGNA

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>Starting from the recent publication of the mathematician and chemist Anton Maria Lorgna's private library inventory, this paper analyses in detail its peculiarities. Through the analysis of the manuscript correspondence between Lorgna and the Paduan book-seller Carlo Scapin and his Italian and European friends, the A. examines how the library developed. He underlines that the existence of particular groups of books is to be connected with Lorgna's interest in peculiar researches, as it is confirmed by his manuscripts on those arguments kept in the Public Library of Verona.

Pieter Blaeu and Antonio Magliabechi

The subject of this article is a collection of letters from Pieter Blaeu to Antonio Magliabechi, the librarian of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany. These letters are kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence. They shed light on Pieter's activities as a book-seller, printer and publisher and do away with the impression which has hitherto been conveyed of him as a man who held aloof from the family business. They also contain important information about the functioning of the Blaeu firm in its sparsely documented 'later days'. Finally the letters provide us with a glimpse of the book-trade between Italy and the Republic in the second half of the seventeenth century, a subject that has so far been studied relatively little. The present article concentrates on one of the many aspects of the correspondence - the assistance which Pieter requested and obtained on two occasions from the Italians in accomplishing Blaeu projects. The first occasion on which he appealed to Magliabechi was when he required drawings for the book on Tuscan towns which was supposed to appear in the series of books on the towns of Italy. Thanks to Magliabechi a considerable number of these drawings were executed, but, for various reasons, the plan was doomed to fail. The second occasion was when the Blaeus were proposing to issue an edition of Petronius's Satyricon which would include the recently discovered fragment of the Cena Trimalchionis. This fragment was printed in Padua in 1664 and Magliabechi made sure that the Blaeus obtained this first edition as quickly as possible. In contrast to the book of Tuscan towns the Blaeu Satyricon was indeed published: it appeared in 1669 with a dedication to Antonio Magliabechi.