Semantic Digital Library Research Articles

A Step towards Semantic Digital Library in the Arabic Region

A Step towards Semantic Digital Library in the Arabic Region

Factors affecting the adoption of integrated semantic digital libraries (SDLs): a systematic review

PurposeMajor objective of the instant study was to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of integrated semantic digital libraries (SDLs). It attempted to find out the challenges faced in implementing semantic technologies in digital libraries. This study also aimed to develop a framework to provide practical solutions to efficiently adopt semantic digital library systems to offer richer data and services.Design/methodology/approachTo meet the formulated objectives of the study, a systematic literature review was conducted. The authors adhered to the “Preferred Reporting Items for the Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” (PRISMA) guidelines as a research method. The data were retrieved from different tools and databases. In total, 35 key studies were included for systematic review after having applied standard procedures.FindingsThe findings of the study indicated that SDLs are highly significant as they offered context-based information resources. Interoperability of the systems, advancement in bilateral transfer modules, machine-controlled indexing, and folksonomy were key factors in developing semantic digital libraries. The study identified five different types of challenges to build an integrated semantic digital library system. These challenges included ontologies and interoperability, development of a suitable model, diversity in language, lack of skilled human resources, and other technical issues.Originality/valueThis paper provided a framework that is based on practical solutions as a benchmark for policymakers to devise formal standards for the initiation to develop integrated semantic digital libraries.

Ontology of folktales in the Greater Mekong Subregion

The goal of this research is to use the digital humanities research concept in the folktales study in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This paper presents the second phase of the research, focusing on developing ontologies of folktales in the GMS. The ontology development comprised two processes: (1) ontology design and development and (2) ontology documentation. In both processes, domain knowledge and ontology of folktales were collected, captured, revised, and evaluated by experts in the field of folktale studies, literary studies, Asian studies, and ontology development. The outcome of this research is domain ontologies for folktales in the GMS. Approximately, 74 concepts of folktales in the GMS have been defined and classified into classes and subclasses, including some necessary scope notes and relationships of the topics. This developed ontology will be useful for the development of a semantic digital library of GMS folktales in the next steps of this research.

Ontology of folktales in the Greater Mekong Subregion

The goal of this research is to use the digital humanities research concept in the folktales study in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This paper presents the second phase of the research, focusing on developing ontologies of folktales in the GMS. The ontology development comprised two processes: (1) ontology design and development and (2) ontology documentation. In both processes, domain knowledge and ontology of folktales were collected, captured, revised, and evaluated by experts in the field of folktale studies, literary studies, Asian studies, and ontology development. The outcome of this research is domain ontologies for folktales in the GMS. Approximately, 74 concepts of folktales in the GMS have been defined and classified into classes and subclasses, including some necessary scope notes and relationships of the topics. This developed ontology will be useful for the development of a semantic digital library of GMS folktales in the next steps of this research.

A Semantic Metadata Enrichment Software Ecosystem (SMESE) Based on a Multi-Platform Metadata Model for Digital Libraries

Software industry has evolved to multi-product and multi-platform development based on a mix of proprietary and open source components. Such integration has occurred in software ecosystems through a software product line engineering (SPLE) process. However, metadata are underused in the SPLE and interoperability challenge. The proposed method is first, a semantic metadata enrichment software ecosystem (SMESE) to support multi-platform metadata driven applications, and second, based on mapping ontologies SMESE aggregates and enriches metadata to create a semantic master metadata catalogue (SMMC). The proposed SPLE process uses a component-based software development approach for integrating distributed content management enterprise applications, such as digital libraries. To perform interoperability between existing metadata models (such as Dublin Core, UNIMARC, MARC21, RDF/RDA and BIBFRAME), SMESE implements an ontology mapping model. SMESE consists of nine sub-systems: 1) Metadata initiatives & concordance rules; 2) Harvesting of web metadata & data; 3) Harvesting of authority metadata & data; 4) Rule-based semantic metadata external enrichment; 5) Rule-based semantic metadata internal enrichment; 6) Semantic metadata external & internal enrichment synchronization; 7) User interest-based gateway; 8) Semantic master catalogue. To conclude, this paper proposes a decision support process, called SPLE decision support process (SPLE-DSP) which is then used by SMESE to support dynamic reconfiguration. SPLE-DSP consists of a dynamic and optimized metadata-based reconfiguration model. SPLE-DSP takes into account runtime metadata-based variability functionalities, context-awareness and self-adaptation. It also presents the design and implementation of a working prototype of SMESE applied to a semantic digital library.

Design and implementation of a social semantic digital library

The paper analyzes some current trends of research and development in the field of digital libraries. The presentation is focused on the main features of two new generations of digital libraries - the so-called semantic digital libraries and social semantic digital libraries. The design characteristics, principles of functioning and some implementation details of a particular academic digital library have been discussed as an illustration of the suggested ideas.

Interface Base Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval of Digital Repository Using Semantic Web

This paper gives an overview of recent Semantic Web technologies which can be used to enhance digital libraries in semantic nature. Deploying Semantic Web technologies would lead to efficient and more precise representation of digital library content and hence better retrieval. This paper presents a mode for enhancing the library with semantic technology and talk about the implementation of semantic technologies for architecting digital libraries, that will go a long way in providing digital library architecture and web based information services with product highly customized to users’ needs. Digital libraries have been an important source of information throughout the history of mankind. It has been present in our societies in different forms. Notably, traditional libraries have found their on the desktops of internet users. They have taken the shape of semantic digital libraries, which are accessible at any time, and accordingly provide a more meaningful search. This paper explains the Semantic Web and the technologies that support its functioning, including XML, RDF, and Ontology. Semantic Web technologies are considered from the perspective of digital Libraries and how Semantic Web technologies can enhance the functioning of digital libraries. The paper additionally explores on some existing semantic digital library systems like DSpace, SMILE, JeromeDL and BRICKS.

PARADIGM SEMANTIC WEB IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL LIBRARY: SERVICES AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION

This paper presents a several of theoretical ideas and applied technology that can be embodied in the creation of Semantic Digital Library (SDL). In particular, considerable attention paid to how the Semantic Web technology is used in various aspects of DL. A basic level in the DL that may be carriers of semantic description. Described the advantages of this approach. It also highlights issues that arise during the integration of classical electronic libraries and Semantic Web a place in these processes. Made a brief overview of the world’s leading projects to create DL using Semantic Web.

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Conversion of classic and digital libraries into digital libraries is now passe. With evolution of technologies, classic libraries have upgraded themselves and have emerged as library and information centres. This paper discusses the integration of computer technologies with library and information science, and how semantics can be customised for library operations, and what can be the measures for converting routine tasks to semantic tasks. The paper concludes that making social semantic digital library is not at and the only thing required is to reduce the gap between library and Semantic Web communities. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.31.4.1101

Affiliation disambiguation for constructing semantic digital libraries

With increasing digital information availability, semantic web technologies have been employed to construct semantic digital libraries in order to ease information comprehension. The use of semantic web enables users to search or visualize resources in a semantic fashion. Semantic web generation is a key process in semantic digital library construction, which converts metadata of digital resources into semantic web data. Many text mining technologies, such as keyword extraction and clustering, have been proposed to generate semantic web data. However, one important type of metadata in publications, called affiliation, is hard to convert into semantic web data precisely because different authors, who have the same affiliation, often express the affiliation in different ways. To address this issue, this paper proposes a clustering method based on normalized compression distance for the purpose of affiliation disambiguation. The experimental results show that our method is able to identify different affiliations that denote the same institutes. The clustering results outperform the well-known k-means clustering method in terms of average precision, F-measure, entropy, and purity. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

도서관 3.0의 개념과 서비스 모형에 관한 연구

웹 3.0의 개념과 실체에 대한 논의와 함께 도서관 3.0의 개념과 실체에 대한 논의도 최근 몇 년 동안 여러 학자들과 현장 전문가들에 의해 진행되어 온 것을 알 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 도서관 3.0을 바라보는 다양한 논의들을 분석하고 도서관 3.0의 개념을 정리하고자 하며, 이를 기반으로 한 도서관 3.0 서비스 모형을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구에서 제안된 도서관 3.0 서비스의 키워드는 기계에 의한 데이터 처리가 가능한 시맨틱 웹 기술과 소셜 네트워킹 서비스가 전자도서관에 적용되어 ‘진정한 지식 공유 및 협업’이 가능한 소셜시맨틱디지털도서관, 도서관의 자원이 Linked Data가 되어 전 세계의 도서관이 연결된 구조의 링키드 도서관, 그리고 RFID 및 모바일기술이 적용된 유비쿼터스적 모바일 도서관이다.

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content

Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems.

지식 서비스 지향 도서관 시스템의 논리 모델

ABSTRACT The ecosystem of the Library has been radically changing in the advent of ubiquitous information service technology. We are already aware of the dig ital library due to popularizing digital information resources and we are impressed with Library 2.0 and Social Semantic Digital Library of user-centered, service-oriented lib rary. We summarize the ultimate goal of the evolution of library systems as knowledge services and propose a logical model of library system for the realization of knowledge services. This local model can be applied for a library framework to harmonize the diverse kno wledge resources, active users with participation and collaboration, the innovation of l ibrary business and ubiquitous information service technologies to achieve the missions of lib rary in knowledge-intensive society.키워드: 라이브러리 2.0, 시맨틱 디지털 라이브러리, 온톨로지, FRBRlibrary 2.0, semantic digital library, ontology, FRBR ********** 원광대학교 도서관 사서(hyunsil@wku.ac.kr) ( 제1저자)마포구립 서강도서관 관장 (csbae@hanmail.net) ( 공동저자)마포구립 서강도서관 전산팀장 (library_joo@hanmail.net) ( 공동저자)원광대학교 컴퓨터공학과 교수(skhan@wku.ac.kr) ( 공동저자)

The semantic web and the digital library

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss alternative definitions of and approaches to the semantic web. It aims to clarify the relationship between the semantic web, Web 2.0 and Library 2.0.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a literature review and evaluation of systems with semantic web features. It identifies and describes semantic web projects of relevance to libraries and evaluates the usefulness of JeromeDL and other social semantic digital library systems. It discusses actual and potential applications for libraries and makes recommendations for actions needed by researchers and practitioners.FindingsThe paper concludes that the library community has a lot to offer to, and benefit from, the semantic web, but there is limited interest in the library community. It recommends that there be greater collaboration between semantic web researchers and project developers, library management systems providers and the library community. Librarians should get involved in the development of semantic web standards, for example, metadata and taxonomies.Originality/valueThe paper clarifies the distinction between semantic web and Web 2.0 in a digital library environment. It evaluates and predicts future developments for operational systems.

시맨틱 디지털도서관 서비스를 위한 서지 온톨로지 구축

We propose semantic model that is possible to apply for the bibliographic metadata of domestic digital library by analysing bibliographic metadata models like MARC, DC, MODS, JeromeDL`s metadata model MarcOnt as the representative case of semantic digital library and FRBR model as the conceptual model.

Towards Geospatial Queries in a Semantic Digital Library for 3D Data

The evolution of the computing power as well as the success of standards such as X3D point to a future omnipresence of 3D in the multimedia world. A broad panoply of tools assisting designers when building realistic 3D scenes exists. In a near future, a new challenge will be to control the quantity of 3D contents that will be available. For instance, large amounts of 2D or 3D geographic data are spread all over the Internet. Nevertheless, appropriate description techniques and tools for the deployment and the retrieval of such data are still lacking. Our global objective is to propose a geographic digital library which can be exploited for describing, annotating and indexing geographic contents using geometric and topologic descriptions, geographic and appearance features, and semantics. Descriptions, annotations, and indexations are then exploited in queries to retrieve contents. The existing 3D scene description languages are generally free of any semantic information which could improve the management of 3D data (and especially research and re-use). In this paper, we propose the construction of geographic 3D data warehouses managed by a semantic digital library 3DSDL (3D Semantic Digital Library). This library, through a standardized communication interface, gives access to all the 3D models indexed in the warehouse and facilitates their exploitation. Each object is characterized by a set of both semantic and geographic annotations and some common features (colour, geometry, and topology).

Reasoning against a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology

PurposeAims to bridge the gap between grid computing and semantic exploitation of information commonly met in digital library infrastructures.Design/methodology/approachThis 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.FindingsAlthough semantic exploitation of large data sets used to be a difficult and resource‐consuming activity usually taking place in specialized, highly equipped laboratories, this work demonstrates that emerging technologies like the grid and emerging standards like RDF/OWL are capable of bringing such research closer to the average workstation.Research limitations/implicationsThe lack of a working prototype based on the proposed framework limits the usefulness of the results deriving from this paper.Originality/valueThis paper can serve as a starting point to researchers wishing to conduct research in the area of the semantic grid as applied to digital library infrastructures.

SemWebDL: A privacy-preserving Semantic Web infrastructure for digital libraries

Recent advances in digital libraries have been closely intertwined with advances in Internet technologies. With the advent of the Web, digital libraries have been able to reach constituencies previously unanticipated. Because of the wide deployability of Web-accessible digital libraries, the potential for privacy violations has also grown tremendously. The much touted Semantic Web, with its agent, service, and ontology technologies, is slated to take the Web to another qualitative level in advances. Unfortunately, these advances may also open doors for privacy violations in ways never seen before. We propose a Semantic Web infrastructure, called SemWebDL, that enables the dynamic composition of disparate and autonomous digital libraries while preserving user privacy. In the proposed infrastructure, users will be able to pose more qualitative queries that may require the ad hoc collaboration of multiple digital libraries. In addition to the Semantic Web-based infrastructure, the quality of the response would rest on extraneous information in the form of a profile. We introduce the concept of communities to enable subject-based cooperation and search speedup. Further, digital libraries’ heterogeneity and autonomy are transcended by a layered Web-service-based infrastructure. Semantic Web-based digital library providers would advertise to Web services, which in turn are organized in communities accessed by users. For the purpose of privacy preservation, we devise a three-tier privacy model consisting of user privacy, Web service privacy, and digital library privacy that offers autonomy of perspectives for privacy definition and violation. We propose an approach that seamlessly interoperates with potentially conflicting privacy definitions and policies at the different levels of the Semantic Web-based infrastructure. A key aspect in the approach is the use of reputations for outsourcing Web services. A Web service reputation is associated with its behavior with regard to privacy preservation. We developed a technique that uses attribute ontologies and information flow difference to collect, evaluate, and disseminate the reputation of Web services.