Library Management: Volume 26 Issue 4/5

Digital libraries in the knowledge era: Knowledge management and Semantic Web technologies

Miltiadis Lytras, Miguel‐Angel Sicilia, John Davies, Vipul Kashyap

The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue on the Semantic Web. Intensive research has been undertaken worldwide in research centres and several achievements have…

Libraries as knowledge management centers

Kevin R. Parker, Philip S. Nitse, Kay A. Flowers

Purpose – This paper proposes enhancing libraries to act as knowledge management centers for small businesses, providing both knowledge management (KM) and competitive…

Semantic Web technologies for digital libraries

York Sure, Rudi Studer

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview about the Semantic Web, its importance and history and an overview of recent Semantic Web technologies which can be used to…

Applying semantic technology to a digital library: a case study

Paul Warren, David Alsmeyer

To describe how semantic knowledge technology can be used to enhance a digital library.

Towards personalization in digital libraries through ontologies

Núria Ferran, Enric Mor, Julià Minguillón

To describe a browsing and searching personalization system for digital libraries based on the use of ontologies for describing the relationships between all the elements which…

Integrating semantic metadata in P2P‐based digital libraries

Hao Ding

To propose methods for expressing semantics and operating semantics in largely distributed environment, such as peer‐to‐peer (P2P) based digital libraries (DLs) where…

Building a distributed digital library for natural disasters metadata with grid services and RDF

Wei Xing, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Hua Yang, Angelos Sphyris, George Eftichidis

This paper aims to describe the main challenges of identifying and accessing useful information and knowledge about natural hazards and disasters results. The paper presents a…

Reasoning against a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology

Ioannis Papadakis, Agapios Avramidis, Vassilis Chrissikopoulos

Aims to bridge the gap between grid computing and semantic exploitation of information commonly met in digital library infrastructures.

Mining novel connections from large online digital library using biomedical ontologies

Xiaohua Hu

The huge volume of biomedical literature provides a nice opportunity and challenge to induce novel knowledge by finding some connections among logical‐related medical concepts…

A cooperative environment for the negotiation of term taxonomies in digital libraries

Francesco Bellomi, Matteo Cristani, Roberta Cuel

Purpose – Several systems for the management of digital libraries have evolved in the recent past from simple document repository to sophisticated applications that provide the…

On the conceptualisation of the query refinement task

Nenad Stojanovic

To resolve the drawback in the existing methods for query refinement by using semantic technologies. Design/methodology/approach – The article introduces a conceptual space…