Integrating New Document Types into Digital Libraries
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Digital libraries store large amounts of documents of any media type and format. Due to the fast development of information technology new media types and document formats will have to be integrated into existing digital libraries. We propose an infrastructure that supports the extensibility of digital libraries by new document types. A prototype has been implemented to proof the feasibility of our approach.
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