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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • What is a digital library?
  • Integrating bibliographic databases
  • Overview of related work
    • Networked information discovery and retrieval
    • Libraries and cataloging
    • Database systems
    • Information retrieval
• Cataloging and the Computer Science Collection
  • Bibliographic relationships and cataloging
    • Issues in cataloging and library science
    • Taxonomy of relationships between records
    • Expressing relations between Bibtex records
  • Practical issues for identifying relationships
    • Bibtex record format
    • CS-TR record format
    • MARC records
    • Effects of cataloging practices
  • Describing the contents of DIFWICS
    • Subjects covered in collection
    • Other characteristics of collection
• Identifying Related Records
  • Record comparison in the presence of errors
  • Algorithm for author-title clusters
    • Comparing author lists
    • String comparisons with n-grams
    • Performance of algorithm
  • Other systems for identifying related records
    • Duplicate detection in library catalogs
    • The database merge/purge problem
  • Analysis of author-title clusters
• Merging Related Records
  • Goals of merger and outline of process
  • Creating the union record
    • Problems with union records
    • Refinements to merger process
  • Clusters sizes and composition in DIFWICS
• Presenting Relations and Clusters
  • The basic Web interface
  • Assessing the quality of union records
• Automatic linking
  • Searching for related Web citations
  • Principles for fully-automated system
• Conclusions and Future Directions
  • Future directions
    • Performance, portability, and production
    • Improving the quality of records
    • Identifying other bibliographic relationships
    • Integrating non-bibliographic information
    • Enabling librarianship and human input
  • Conclusions
• References
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