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The European Library's Deduplication Case Study
The European Library carried out a case study on the deduplication of the Europeana Newspapers and Europeana 1914-1918 collections. Duplicate records occur when the same record is submitted in two different collections or datasets, such as a general topic digital library containing digital objects from across the institution and a more specific thematic collection.
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