CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Editorial -- Digital libraries in the knowledge era -- Libraries as knowledge management centers -- Semantic Web technologies for digital libraries -- Applying semantic technology to a digital library: a case study -- Towards personalization in digital libraries through ontologies -- Integrating semantic metadata in P2P-based digital libraries -- Building a distributed digital library for natural disasters metadata with grid services and RDF -- Reasoning against a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology -- Mining novel connections from large online digital library using biomedical ontologies -- A cooperative environment for the negotiation of term taxonomies in digital libraries -- On the conceptualisation of the query refinement task -- Awards for Excellence.