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. In this paper, we discuss some aspects of database support for digital libraries. From a DL perspective, database systems, and in particular, object database systems provide a nice basis for future DL systems. More generally, database research provides solutions to many DL issues even if these are partial or fragmented. When possible, work should not be duplicated and good software and ideas should be reused. From a DB perspective, we want to stress that digital libraries propose beautiful applications and challenges to DBMS technology. They suggest a number of improvements to DBMSs that could be beneficial beyond DL applications. 1 Introduction The success of the Internet and the Web, and the popularity of Intranet information servers have brought Digital Libraries to the forefront of research. Digital libraries (DL) until recently have focused on issues such as data digitization, search in document collections, and relevance ranking. The scaling up of DL applications stresses new ...

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