this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th european conference on research and advanced technology for digital libraries, ecdl 2003, held in trondheim, norway in august 2003. the 39 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on uses, users, and user interfaces; metadata applications; annotation and recommendation; automatic classification and indexing; web technologies; topical crawling and subject gateways; architectures and systems; knowledge organization; collection building and management; information retrieval; digital preservation; and indexing and searching of special documents and collection information.