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Focused Search in Digital Archives

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We present a system description for an archival information system with three different approaches to gain online access to digital archives created in the metadata standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD). We show that an aggregation-based system can be developed on archival data using XML Information Retrieval (XML IR). We describe the different stages and components, such as the indexing of the digital finding aids in an XML database, the subsequent querying and retrieval of information from that database, and the eventual delivery of that information to the users in a contextual interface.

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  1. Archives and Information Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam,  

    Junte Zhang & Jaap Kamps

  2. ISLA, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam,  

    Jaap Kamps

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  1. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster,, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Darrell D. E. Long

  3. Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, Shatin, N. T.,, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

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Zhang, J., Kamps, J. (2009). Focused Search in Digital Archives. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_45

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