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A Comprehensive Guide Through the Italian Database Research Over the Last 25 Years

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Digital libraries and digital archives are the information management systems for storing, indexing, searching, accessing, curating and preserving digital resources which manage our cultural and scientific knowledge heritage (KH).

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Agosti, M., Ferro, N., Silvello, G. (2018). Digital Libraries: From Digital Resources to Challenges in Scientific Data Sharing and Re-Use. In: Flesca, S., Greco, S., Masciari, E., Saccà, D. (eds) A Comprehensive Guide Through the Italian Database Research Over the Last 25 Years. Studies in Big Data, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61893-7_2

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