Abstract. The internet is rapidly becoming the first place for researchers to publish documents, but at present they receive little support in searching, tracking, analysing or debating concepts in a literature from scholarly perspectives. This paper describes the design rationale and implementation of ScholOnto, an ontology-based digital library server to support scholarly interpretation and discourse. It enables researchers to describe and debate via a semantic network the contributions a document makes, and its relationship to the literature. The paper discusses the computational services that an ontologybased server supports, alternative user interfaces to support interaction with a large semantic network, usability issues associated with knowledge formalisation, new work practices that could emerge, and related work.
For instance, REF describe an ontology-based digital library that allows researchers to describe and debate the contribution a document makes and its relationship to the literature.
ScholOnto: an ontology-based digital library server for research documents and discourse
International Journal on Digital Libraries
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Computer Science