The Database Lab (LBD) of the University of A Coruña was created in 1996, and since then it has been headed by Nieves R. Brisaboa (brisaboa@udc.es).

Nowadays, the LBD is integrated by researchers and teaching staff from the Computer Science Department of the University of A Coruña, who work in the following research areas: 

• Databases and Information Systems
• Digital Libraries and information retrieval
• Advanced structures and compression, indexing and text retrieval algorithms
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Geographical information retrieval
• Graph-oriented databases