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Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 93 - 102

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-868-1

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Ellen M. Voorhees	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Richard M. Tong	Sageware, Inc., Mountain View, CA

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SIGBIO: ACM Special Interest Group on Biomedical Computing
SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCUE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Uses In Education
SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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