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.
The ScholOnto ontology was developed as part of an effort aimed at enabling researchers to describe and debate, via a semantic network, the contributions of a document, and its relationship to the literature REF .
ScholOnto: an ontology-based digital library server for research documents and discourse
International Journal on Digital Libraries
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Computer Science