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Information Retrieval Challenges for Digital Libraries

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Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization (ICADL 2004)

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Information retrieval is an important component of digital libraries, and there is a high degree of synergy between the two research communities. Much of the current research in information retrieval is potentially relevant to digital libraries, and digital libraries present a challenging environment in which to incorporate new information retrieval methods.

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Rasmussen, E. (2004). Information Retrieval Challenges for Digital Libraries. In: Chen, Z., Chen, H., Miao, Q., Fu, Y., Fox, E., Lim, Ep. (eds) Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. ICADL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30544-6_10

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