Authors:
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos
;
Georgia D. Solomou
;
Andreas D. Alexopoulos
and
Theodore S. Papatheodorou
Affiliation:
University of Patras, Greece
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Management, Metadata, Interoperability, Ontologies, Reasoning, Digital Repositories.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Data Engineering
;
Digital Libraries
;
e-Business
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning, e-Training and Executive Training
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Intelligent Information Systems
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Metadata and Structured Documents
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Tools and Technology for Knowledge Management
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Information management, description and discovery, as they are today implemented in digital repositories and digital libraries systems, can surely benefit from the stack of Semantic Web technologies. Most importantly, the ability to infer implied information over declared facts and assertions, based on their rich descriptions and associations, can span new possibilities in how stored assets can be accessed, searched and discovered. In this paper we propose a process and implementation that provides for inference-based knowledge discovery, retrieval and navigation on top of digital repositories, based on existing metadata and other semi-structured information. We show that it is possible to produce added-value and meaningful results even when existing descriptions are only flatly organized and we achieve this with little manual intervention. Our work and results are based on real-world data and applied on the official University of Patras institutional repository that is based on DSpa
ce.
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