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Concluding remarks and outlook

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In any information infrastructure, the information retrieval components have a special relevance because they are the components that provide the first point of access to the contents. Improving these components involves an improvement in the entire infrastructure environment, making the resource holdings easier to find and access.

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Lacasta, J., Nogueras-Iso, J., Zarazaga-Soria, F.J. (2010). Concluding remarks and outlook. In: Terminological Ontologies. Semantic Web and Beyond, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6981-1_7

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