Towards knowledge-based digital libraries

Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization

This chapter describes not so much what digital libraries are but what digital libraries with semantic support could and should be. It discusses the nature of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and how KOS can support digital library users. It projects a vision for designers to make and for users to demand better digital libraries. What is a digital library? The term “Digital Library” (DL) is...

Knowledge Organisation for Digital Libraries

Today research data and output from nearly every disciplinary and interdisciplinary domain exist also (and sometimes only) in digital form. Consequently, to ensure the data’s efficient retrieval as well as long term usage and relevance, Knowledge Organisation and its tools/systems, i.e. lexical resources like thesauri and ontologies, play a major role in the Digital Libraries world. In this pap...

Knowledge Representation meets Digital Libraries

In this short paper, the basic ideas behind a project on the application of Knowledge Representation formalisms and technologies for Conceptual Modelling and Query Management are presented. It is argued that good Conceptual Modelling is required to support powerful information access through Intelligent Navigation, a fundamental task in Digital Libraries.

Towards Mapping-Based Document Retrieval in Heterogeneous Digital Libraries

In many scientific domains, researchers depend on a timely and efficient access to available publications in their particular area. The increasing availability of publications in electronic form via digital libraries is a reaction to this need. A remaining problem is the fact that the pool of all available publications is distributed between different libraries. In order to increase the availab...

Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries