Evaluation of Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries

Abstract

Abstract. Libraries are the tools we use to learn and to answer our questions. The quality of our work depends, among others, on the quality of the tools we use. Recently, the semantic web and social networking technologies are being introduced to the digital libraries domain. In this article we present the results of an evaluation of social and semantic end-user information discovery services for the digital libraries.

Semantic technologies in idea management systems: a model for interoperability, linking and filtering

“…In case of digital libraries the core of the problem has been improving search and browsing (Kruk et al, 2005) as well as seeking convergence with other disciplines to make libraries more attractive for regular people (e.g. though interoperability with aforementioned Social Web (Kruk et al, 2008) or by making digital libraries part of larger software ecosystem like e-Learning (Westerski et al, 2006)). In comparison, Semantic Web appliances targeted for specific technologies are often focused on very specific and usually long standing complex problems of those technologies, for example automatic Web Service composition, matching or discovery (Haller et al, 2005;Li and Horrocks, 2003).…”