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[email protected] homepage: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ The Meaning of Structure the Value of Link Evidence for Information Retrieval Academisch Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof.dr. D.C. van den Boom ten overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel op vrijdag 15 april 2011, te 14.00 uur door Marinus Henricus Aloysius Koolen geboren te Hoorn. Promotiecommissie: Promotor: Prof.dr. J.S. MacKenzie-Owen Co-promotor: Dr.ir. J. Kamps Overige commissieleden: Dr. N.E. Craswell Prof.dr. M. Lalmas Dr. M.J. Marx Prof.dr. M. de Rijke Prof.dr.ir. A.P. de Vries Faculteit der Geestewetenschappen Universiteit van Amsterdam The work in this thesis has been funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in the project Multipe- collection Searching Using Metadata (Mu- SeUM), grant number 640.001.501, which is part of the Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage (CATCH) research programme. siks Dissertation Series 2011-15 The research reported in this thesis has been carried out under the auspices of siks, the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems. Copyright © 2011 by Marijn Koolen Cover design by Donald Roos.