Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2002, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2002. The revised 42 full and 6 short papers presented together with 6 posters and demo descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web archiving, e-book, collection building, web technologies, OAI approaches, case studies, navigation and query language, audio/video retrieval, architecture, information retrieval, evaluation, multimedia and mixed media, preservation and classification, user studies, humanities, and demos and posters.