Resource Discovery in a Globally - Distributed Digital Library Working Group
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Digital Libraries and the Open Information Locator project
DSTC Tech Report 34) Resource Discovery is the term commonly used to refer to the exercise of locating, accessing, retrieving, and managing relevant resources (eg information and services) for a user from widely distributed heterogeneous networks. The Resource Discovery Unit of the Research Data Network Cooperative Research Centre is working on tools and technologies which make these tasks easi...
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