Digital libraries and the semantic web
Subtitle: context, applications and research
By: guest editor, George Macgregor
Series: Library review -- v. 57, no. 3; Library review -- v. 57, no. 3.
Publisher: Emerald
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Bradford, England]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781846638596; 9781846638589
Subjects: Digital libraries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Semantic Web; Library & Information Science; General
Description: This e-book presents a collection of papers aimed at exploring some of the potential, opportunities and challenges to be found in greater LIS alignment with Semantic Web developments. For many digital libraries or cultural institutions, the Semantic Web offers an opportunity to better expose valuable digital resources pertaining to research, culture or history, using common standards and technologies in a collaborative and 'joined up' way. Semantic Web technologies are capable of enhancing digital libraries or repositories by facilitating improved navigation and retrieval within heterogeneous.
Notes: Title from PDF cover (viewed Dec. 14, 2008).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Introduction to a special issue on digital libraries and the semantic web: context, applications and research; The practitioner librarian and the semantic web; Integrated access to cultural heritage resources through representation and alignment of controlled vocabularies; The AGROVOC Concept Server: rationale, goals and usage; Reducing semantic complexity in distributed digital libraries; Faceted infrastructure for semantic digital libraries; Semantic heterogeneity: comparing new semantic web approaches with those of digital libraries; Book reviews.