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Daffodil: Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000)

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The Internet makes searching for literature in Digital Libraries (DLs) feasible. However, often a user has to contact several DLs to satisfy a given information need. This leads to usability problems due to the heterogeneity of the DLs. One aspect is that the information structures of the systems differ. In fact, relevant information may be spread across several DLs. The other aspect of heterogeneity is differing browsing and searching functionality, of course presented to the user through different user interfaces and query languages.

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  1. University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Gövert, Norbert Fuhr & Claus-Peter Klas

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  1. National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande, 83, 1749-081, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  2. GMD Library, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Thomas Baker

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Gövert, N., Fuhr, N., Klas, CP. (2000). Daffodil: Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries. In: Borbinha, J., Baker, T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1923. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45268-0_38

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