A Passage to Ontology Tool for Information Organisation in the Digital Age

Abstract

To facilitate access to relevant documents and information has been the core of the library and information science (LIS) profession. In this regard tools like classification, cataloguing, and indexing formed the basis of library practice for a long time. These served particularly well for the material that was predominantly in the print form and required physical location for storage. New information sources, however, in contrast are increasingly in the electronic or digital form and stored on medium like computer hard disks requiring completely different strategy for access and management. Extension of the traditional bibliographic control tools as well as construction of new tools has therefore become pertinent. Ontology is one of the latest tools in this context. The paper discusses progress of information organising tools culminating in ontology, highlights the commonality of the concept of ontology and its applications among the fields of philosophy, computer science and LIS. It also discusses the select features of ontology development in practice and directions for features of ontology development in practice and directions for further work.

Ontology-based indexing technologies in information retrieval: Building a topic map (ISO 13250) for a mathematics education database

“…Some previous research tries to improve information searching by optimizing information organization. Ontology-based indexing technologies area promising approach (Patkar, 2011). By establishing an ontology on the basis of semantic relationships between concepts, the improved information organization may improve users' searching performance (Jimeno-Yepes et al, 2010;Yi, 2008).…”

The Impact on Citation Analysis Based on Ontology and Linked Data

“…The digital library is an important application area of ontology-based knowledge service research. In 2015, Patkar [26] indicated that ontology is one of the latest tools for information retrieval from libraries in this digital age. His paper discusses advances in information managing tools and concludes by highlighting the applications of ontology among the different fields.…”

Representing transmedia fictional worlds through ontology

“…Fans are creating thousands of wikis, blogs, and fan sites to describe the various narrative elements of their favorite worlds (Booth, ; Gray et al, ). As important as fan‐driven sources are, they suffer from a lack of structured data and are limited in their ability to facilitate detailed searching and analysis (Compton, 2015; Noh, Lee, & Lee, ; Patkar, ), instead relying on full‐text search engines to provide access. Interested parties must review dozens of original media sources and search hundreds of fan sites to get the full picture (Clarke, ; Jenkins, ; Menard, ).…”

“…This approach makes it simpler to provide information in intuitive ways to end users by using artificial intelligence (AI). However, this requires transmedia fictional worlds' knowledge to be organized into a standard ontology using common formats, such as Ontology Web Language (OWL) or Resource Description Framework (RDF) (Compton, 2015; Noh et al, ; Patkar, ; Su, Meng, & Hu, ). Current efforts to capture this information, such as the Comic Book Ontology, focus on one form of media and on accurately representing bibliographic information.…”