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User-centered Content Provisioning over Large Collections of eBooks

, and . Proceedings of the 2009 2nd ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories, BooksOnline 2009, Corfu, Greece, October 2, 2009, (2009)

Abstract

Managing and distributing published information is traditionally the mission of libraries. But in times of digital information provisioning and perso-nalized content delivery, the processes to fulfill this mission have to be re-considered. Beyond simple keyword indexing using library categorization sys-tems, digital corpora need to be preprocessed for later access directly by the end user. Thus, major functions of the classical librarian like assessing the actual in-formation need and mediating between the library categorization and the end user are to some degree bypassed and have to be compensated for. Moreover, also the quality control of a digital library?s metadata annotations used for sub-sequent querying of collections has to be guaranteed. In this paper we discuss the importance of metadata quality control for large eBook collections.

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