A logging scheme for comparative digital library evaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4172 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 267-278

  Klas, Claus Peter ^a   Albrechtsen, Hanne ^b   Fuhr, Norbert ^a   Hansen, Preben ^e   Kapidakis, Sarantos ^d   Kovacs, Laszlo ^c   Kriewel, Sascha ^a   Micsik, Andras ^c   Papatheodorou, Christos ^d   Tsakonas, Giannis ^d   Jacob, Elin ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Knowledge Sharing   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

^d IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^e SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES;

LOG DATA; MULTI-LEVEL LOGGING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 33750242116     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11863878_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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