Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 46 Issue 2
Table of contents
DBpedia and the live extraction of structured data from Wikipedia
Mohamed Morsey, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer, Claus Stadler, Sebastian HellmannDBpedia extracts structured information from Wikipedia, interlinks it with other knowledge bases and freely publishes the results on the web using Linked Data and SPARQL. However…
Evaluating search engines: A comparative study between international and Greek SE by Greek librarians
Emmanouel GaroufallouThe use of search engines is the most widely acceptable way for information foraging on the net. Their wide use as an information retrieval tool has created the need for their…
Semantic storyboard of judicial debates: a novel multimedia summarization environment
E. Fersini, F. SartoriThe need of tools for content analysis, information extraction and retrieval of multimedia objects in their native form is strongly emphasized into the judicial domain: digital…
Query classification and study of university students' search trends
Majdi A. Maabreh, Mohammed N. Al‐Kabi, Izzat M. AlsmadiThis study is an attempt to develop an automatic identification method for Arabic web queries and divide them into several query types using data mining. In addition, it seeks to…
Second Life in the library: an empirical study of new users' experiences
Christopher Peter ClarkeThis paper aims to examine the experiences of new users of Second Life in order to identify potential barriers and attractors to the expansion of the userbase and therefore the…
Non‐agricultural databases and thesauri: Retrieval of subject headings and non‐controlled terms in relation to agriculture
Tomaz BartolThe paper aims to assess the utility of non‐agriculture‐specific information systems, databases, and respective controlled vocabularies (thesauri) in organising and retrieving…