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Java MARIAN: From an OPAC to a Modern Digital Library System

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String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2002)

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This paper describes the Java MARIAN system, its implementation, and its evolution from a C++ Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) to a modern and complete digital library system. We focus on design, architectural, and implementation issues including: support for storage, retrieval, and automatic generation of collections of semi-structured digital objects; uniform and powerful representations based on semantic networks, digital library specific datatypes, and weighted sets; rich communities of searchers and fusion modules; and support for distributed computation, multi-lingual retrieval, and personalization. We present applications and some use statistics.

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  1. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Marcos André Gonçalves, Paul Mather, Jun Wang, Ye Zhou, Ming Luo, Ryan Richardson, Rao Shen, Liang Xu & Edward A. Fox

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  1. Departamento de Ciěncia da Computação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC-ID, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

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Gonçalves, M.A. et al. (2002). Java MARIAN: From an OPAC to a Modern Digital Library System. In: Laender, A.H.F., Oliveira, A.L. (eds) String Processing and Information Retrieval. SPIRE 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2476. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45735-6_18

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