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Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006)

Written by Sebastian Ryszard Kruk
Tuesday, 11 April 2006
JCDL 2006 June 11-15, 2006 Chapel Hill, NC, USA Wiki page for the Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraires Libraries have always been an inspiration for the standards and technologies developed by semantic web activities: library and digital library communities are using classification schemes, taxonomies, and thesauri, which are closely related to ontologies. In the late 90s, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative was tasked with the specification of an easy-to-use and understandable format for bibliographic metadata that takes machine processable semantics into account. However, Semantic Web technology has not been adopted and further developed by major digital library initiatives and projects. As a result, the semantic web and digital libraries communities became disconnected. The aim of this tutorial is to present semantic web - related aspects of current digital library activities, and introduce their functionality to a broader audience with basic technical and programming skills. Our goal is to give examples and stimulate the awareness of researchers, engineers and potential users that semantic web technologies can indeed be useful for building digital libraries.
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