Originally published as Library Management
Volume 26 Issue 4/5, 2005
ISBN: 1 84544 141 9
Guest edited by: Miltiadis Lytras, Athens University, Greece, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of AlcalaŽ, Spain, John Davies, BTExact Next Generation Web Research, UK & Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA.
This Special Issue goes beyond the traditional verbalisms for the role of the Semantic Web in Digital Libraries.
It features a balanced mix of papers which are introductory to the topic and also advanced research papers at the leading edge of the SW evolution. The Special Issue aims to motivate readers to be part of this exciting community. The issue is endorsed by AIS SIGSEMIS - the Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems of the Association for Information Systems. It aims to introduce or reinforce understanding of this important aspect of readers’ sphere of operation.
Contents:
Digital libraries in the knowledge era: Knowledge management and Semantic Web technologies
The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue on the Semantic Web. Intensive research has been undertaken worldwide in research centres and several achievements have been accomplished towards the ultimate objective: the expression and the exploitation of humanity's collective knowledge.
Libraries as knowledge management centers
This paper proposes enhancing libraries to act as knowledge management centers for small businesses, providing both knowledge management (KM) and competitive intelligence (CI) services.
Semantic Web technologies for digital libraries
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview about the Semantic Web, its importance and history and an overview of recent Semantic Web technologies which can be used to enhance digital libraries.
Applying semantic technology to a digital library: a case study
This paper describes how semantic knowledge technology can be used to enhance a digital library. It examines the main research challenges in the field of digital libraries and identifies the extent to which semantic knowledge technology can be used to respond to these challenges.
Towards personalization in digital libraries through ontologies
This paper describes a browsing and searching personalization system for digital libraries based on the use of ontologies for describing the relationships between all the elements which take part in a digital library scenario of use.
Integrating semantic metadata in P2P-based digital libraries
This article proposes methods for expressing semantics and operating semantics in largely distributed environment, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) based digital libraries (DLs) where heterogeneous schemas may exist and the relationships among them must be explicated for better performance in information searching.
Building a distributed digital library for natural disasters metadata with grid services and RDF
This paper aims to describe the main challenges of identifying and accessing useful information and knowledge about natural hazards and disasters results. The paper presents a grid-based digital library system designed to address the challenges.
Reasoning against a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology
This paper introduces a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology. It follows the OGSA specifications for the development of grid infrastructures capable of efficiently handling such information. It is a service-oriented approach based on common web technologies such as the web browser and web server. The design principles of the proposed framework take into account the emerging need to exploit the semantics of its underlying information through the employment of adequate open standard technologies such as RDF and OWL.
Mining novel connections from large online digital library using biomedical ontologies
The huge volume of biomedical literature provides a nice opportunity and challenge to induce novel knowledge by finding some connections among logical-related medical concepts This paper aims to propose a semantic-based knowledge discovery system for mining novel connections from large online digital libraries.
A cooperative environment for the negotiation of term taxonomies in digital libraries
This study analyses the issues related to the implementation of a digital library, and develops an architecture that aims to evaluate users’ competence about different discussion topics in an automated way.
On the conceptualisation of the query refinement task
This article introduces a conceptual space (ontology) in which a query refinement problem will be treated. In that space a query is modeled as a set of logic formulas, query refinement process is modeled as an inferencing process. The approach is focused on the positive conjunctive queries.
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