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The Renardus academic subject gateway service in Europe was launched in April 2002. The author first presented the challenges facing this pan-European collaborative project at ECDL 2000. This paper identifies the progress made in information, technical and organisational developments and deployment since Lisbon 2000, presents the results of evaluation activities and outlines the challenges, setbacks and successes for Renardus transition–in June 2002#x2013;from project to service.
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Huxley, L. (2002). Renardus: Following the Fox from Project to Service. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_16
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