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On October 15 - 17, 2002, RCDL'2002 - the Fourth All-Russian Scientific Conference "Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies", took place at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna. Digital Libraries (DL) is a field of research and development aiming to promote the theory and practice of processing, dissemination, storage, search and analysis of various digital data. Digital Libraries acting as knowledge depositories can be considered as complex information systems, development and use of which require solution of numerous scientific, technological, methodological, economic, legal and other issues. Digital Libraries technologies are rapidly developing. Challenges in semantics, integration of information, perceptions of presentation of various kinds of data call for significant innovations. Development of Digital Libraries technologies is becoming more and more essential for raising the standards of health care, education, science and economy, as well as the quality of life on the whole. Projects devoted to generation of the digital form of information concerning the Earth, Universe, Literature, Art, Environment and Humans, accumulated by humanity, are examples of the intensive development of global information repositories. RCDL'2002 is the fourth conference on this subject (1999 - St.Petersburg, 2000 - Protvino, 2001 - Petrozavodsk). The principal objective of the series of the conference is to promote the constituting of a community of Russian experts involved in researches and development related to Digital Libraries. The Conference offers such a community an opportunity to discuss ideas and outcomes and to make contacts for closer cooperation. Much attention is focused on advanced applications and technologies. Besides, the pilot applications and digital collections developed in frame of the RFBR grants on digital libraries and other programs are also discussed at the conferences. The Conference also promotes the study of international experience, development of the international cooperation on Digital Libraries. The Conference languages are Russian and English. In 2002 Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece) helped to prepare the Conference acting as its European Coordinator. Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA) provided a liaison with the ACM SIGIR. The Program Committee of RCDL'2002 included PC members from abroad. 97 Extended Abstracts were submitted for the conference. The Program Committee reviewed all of them and selected 59 submissions for regular sessions and 13 - for poster presentations. The Conference Proceedings including full papers were published before the conference. RCDL'2002 was supported by the grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Ministry for Science of the Russian Federation. 104 specialists from 16 Russian cities and 15 foreign attendees from Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine and USA took part at the conference.