Title A Public Digital Library based on Full - Text Retrieval : Collections and Experience
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Current size About ten text collections containing up to a million pages each; One music collection containing ten thousand melodies Subject matter Computer science technical reports and bibliographies, humanitarian development information, indigenous peoples issues, public-domain English literature, and magazines Information sources Various national and international Interfaces WWW, including experimental Java applets Focus Low-cost end-user management and maintenance of focused collections; User interfaces for text and music searching, and browsing Protocol for interoperability See [5] Brief biographies
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