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An Application to Support Reclassification of Large Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011)

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In this paper, we describe a software application that was developed and is successfully applied at the Mannheim University Library to manually reclassify about 1 million books in a very efficient manner by supporting various different working strategys and by using information from several sources.

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  1. University Library, University of Mannheim, Germany

    Kai Eckert & Magnus Pfeffer

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  1. Kai Eckert
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  1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Gradmann

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Francesca Borri

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carlo Meghini

  4. Databases and Information Systems Group, University of Basel, Bernoullistr. 16, 5056, Basel, Switzerland

    Heiko Schuldt

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Eckert, K., Pfeffer, M. (2011). An Application to Support Reclassification of Large Libraries. In: Gradmann, S., Borri, F., Meghini, C., Schuldt, H. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_50

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