39 articles in this issue
Wonsook Lee,Shigeo Sugimoto
Subject classification schemes and vocabularies for subject indexing, i.e. subject vocabularies, have a crucial role in the development of subject gateways. From our experiences on a few subject gateway projects which are designed for regional and domains... see more
Marcel Götze
In this paper we introduce a novel way for the standardized description of handwritten annotations onan electronic document. This approach allows it on theone hand to describe the annotation itself which means the geometric representation. On the other ha... see more
José Ramón Pérez Agüera,Rodrigo Sánchez Jiménez
This article presents a basic proposal for the automation and use of thesauri for information retrieval in distributed environments through web services based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) architecture. It begins by reviewing the proposals f... see more
Martin Kurth,Greg Nehler,Rick Silterra
The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) exemplifies digital collections in which groups of objects are versions of the same resource and which resources are related to one another taxonomically. Other objects in the collection are supplem... see more
Assumpció Estivill,Ernest Abadal,Jorge Franganillo,Jesús Gascón,J. M. Rodríguez Gairín
This article summarises the experience of applying Dublin Core metadata to digital journal articles. Some of the problems encountered during this process are discussed.
Valérie Gouaillier,Langis Gagnon,Sylvain Paquette,Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec
The paper presents an evaluation study about the application of the MPEG-7 standard to the metadata associated with a database supporting identification, characterization, classification and referencing of film shooting locations. The metadata describes p... see more
Javier Solorio Lagunas,Lourdes Feria Basurto
The Iberoamerican and Caribbean Virtual Library (in spanish, BVIC)) is a coordinated project between the University of Colima and UNESCO, it was born in 1999 and has the goal of create a great digital library for the Iberoamerican and Caribbean region. It... see more
Fred van Blommestein
This paper presents a mechanism to maintain metadata in a decentralized way, in order to flexibilize open electronic business. By defining instances as sets, data models can be manipulated in operational systems, together with those instances. Using the U... see more
Jian Qin,Javier Calzada Prado
Metadata applications have developed local controlled vocabulary to meet information needs of users, but little is known about what vocabularies users use in searching for information. This paper reports the findings from an analysis of a digital library'... see more
María Angélica Fuentes Martínez
A description of the work methodology and the study experience for the generation and implementation of a metadata format model used for the development of the Digital Library Project of the Chilean National Congress Library. This metadata model was gener... see more
Isabel Daudinot Founier
This paper show the use of the Dublin Core (DC) format for the administration and description of the resources of information in the Portal Cuba.cu, created by the Enterprise of Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL), with the... see more
Shadi Abou-Zahra
Web accessibility evaluations are significantly different from document validations; they are not based on determining conformance with specifications of formal grammars but are often more rule-based methodologies encompassing sequences of atomic tests to... see more
Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Metadata scheme harmonization and the development of 'generic' metadata standards have been proposed and studied as techniques to alleviate the problem of metadata integration. However, the use of existing upper onotologies as base models for metadata sch... see more
David Portolés-Rodríguez,Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz,Javier Nogueras-Iso,Rodolfo Rioja,Pedro R. Muro-Medrano,Javier Zarazaga-Soria
The importance of interoperability among computer systems has been progressively increasing over the last years. The tendency of current cataloguing systems is to interchange metadata in XML accordingto the specific standard required by each user on deman... see more
Phil Archer
The Quatro project has applied semantic web technologies to trustmark schemes and quality labels. Drawing on past and original research, the project has defined a vocabulary that can be used by any trustmarkscheme (TMS) and a technical platform to deliver... see more
Eric Childress,Andrew Houghton,Diane Vizine-Goetz
This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies are provided through the MS Office ... see more
Alejandro Bia,Juan Malonda,Jaime Gómez
Markup is based on mnemonics (i.e. element names, attribute names and attribute values). These mnemonics have meaning, being this one of the most interesting features of markup. Human understandingof this meaning is lost when the encoder doesn’t have a go... see more
Arttu Valo,Eero Hyvönen,Ville Komulainen
We present a national ontology library development tool ONKI under development in Finland. ONKI's main goal is to support collaborative development and re-use of interdependent ontologies. It features changemanagement and versioning of ontologies and conc... see more
Ernesto Giralt Hernández,Joan Marc Piulachs
This article describes a set of services and tools to be used by information systems to obtain metadata collections in a automated fashion from online content or other electronic repositories. This multi-module software uses a service-oriented schema base... see more
Eero Hyvönen,Arttu Valo,Ville Komulainen,Katri Seppälä,Tomi Kauppinen,Tuukka Ruotsalo,Mirva Salminen,Anu Ylisalmi
We present a national ontology development and service framework being developed in Finland in 2003-2007. The framework is based on a set of related core ontologies, most notably on a national upper ontology based on the commonly used Finnish General Thes... see more
Esteve Lladó,Idoia Murua,Bel Llodrà
The use of Semantic Web technologies allows us to annotate information sources on tourism services and products with the concepts included in a defined ontology. The enriched information can be used to match tailored package holidays to client preferences... see more
Robina Clayphan,Bill Oldroyd
This paper discusses the use of Dublin Coreapplication profiles at the British Library as part of aresource discovery strategy. It shows how they can beused to control the proliferation of metadata formats indigitisation activity and provide interoperabi... see more
Sebastian Ryszard Kruk,Marcin Synak,Kerstin Zimmermann
For interoperability between digital libraries a number of bibliographic description standards have been introduced. Some of them, like MARC21 are usually implemented in classic library systems, while new digital libraries tends to support semantically ri... see more
David F. Barrero,M. Dolores R-Moreno,Oscar García,Angel Moreno
In this paper we present a federated solution to the problem of resource searching across several organisations. It is a cooperative distributed multi-agent system that locates and semantically integrates the access to heterogeneous distributed data sourc... see more
Douglas Tudhope,Ceri Binding
The lack of standardised access and interchange formats impedes wider use of terminology resources on the Web. General programmatic access requires commonly agreed protocols. The paper discusses initial experiments with a pilot web service demonstrator fo... see more
Joseph T. Tennis
The paper suggests extensions to SKOS Core to make explicit where concepts in a knowledge organization system have changed from one version of the system to another.
Amy Sweigert
This paper provides an overview of the Microsoft profiling taxonomy, including its use of the Dublin Core metadata schema.
Alistair Miles,Brian Matthews,Michael Wilson,Dan Brickley
This paper introduces SKOS Core, an RDF vocabulary for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary).... see more
Liddy Nevile,Sophie Lissonnet
In 2000, CIMI reported on the use of Dublin Core metadata in the museum context and proposed a broader set of elements for museums. This paper examines that decision in the light of developments in the DCMES and reaches a different conclusion. The conclus... see more
Edwin Montoya,Edwin Montoya,Jorge Giraldo
Digital Libraries will be one of the main ways to access structured information through the Internet. Information related to resources or objects is known as metadata. Several metadata models have been proposed; however, the model proposed by the Dublin C... see more
Jon Phipps,Diane I. Hillmann,Gordon Paynter
Harvested metadata often suffers from uneven quality to the point that utility is compromised. Although some aggregators have developed methods for evaluating and repairing specific metadata problems, it has been unclear how these methods might be scaled ... see more
Liddy Nevile
This paper presents the case for a private (anonymous) personal profile of accessibility needs and preferences expressed in a Dublin Core format. It introduces the idea that this profile, identified only by a URI, is motivated by a desired relationship be... see more
Rocío García-Robles,Fernando Díaz del Río,Antón Civit,Juan Antonio Prieto
Web content accessibility for impaired people has been mainly addressed by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the W3C Consortium. Those guidelines have proved to be good diagnostic means ... see more
Lourdes Moreno,Paloma Martínez,Jesús Contreras,Richard Benjamin
The importance for Web applications to reach all kind of potential users and customers is being stressed by companies and public sectors. The standardization initiative for Web applications, WAI and the Universal Design framework establish useful rules fo... see more
Enrico Francesconi,Ginevra Peruginelli
Retrieval of legal information and in particular of legal literature is examined in conjunction with the creation of the Portal to Italian legal doctrine developed by the Institute of Theory and Techniques of Legal Information (ITTIG) of the National Rese... see more
Jane Greenberg,P. Bryan Heidorn,Stephen Seiberling,Alan S. Weakley
This paper reports on U-PLanT's (University of North Carolina Plant Language Team) vocabulary solutions, including Project OpenKey vocabulary developments. The paper explores the meaning of vocabulary; discusses plant keys, plant taxonomy, and descriptive... see more