Digital Libraries and Ontology

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Author(s): Neide Santos (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Fernanda C.A. Campos (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)and Regina M.M. Braga Villela (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 10
Source title: Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yin-Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)and Jin-Cheon Na (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch020

Keywords: Digital Libraries / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Science

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Abstract

Nowadays, social, economical, cultural, and technological changes deeply stress the professional profiles. As a consequence, everyone needs to be continually improving his/her professional skills by means of different kinds of continuing learning or lifelong learning. This changeable context also stresses the teachers’ job. Networking technologies can be useful in helping teachers to improve their skills anywhere (i.e., home, office, or school). However, the Web had grown up as a business space and has become an important repository of all kinds of information. As a result, searching information is a hard and slow process. Tools for data retrieval work at the syntactic level, disregarding the semantic aspects. Solutions show up to Web Semantic technologies. Our contribution is to develop a digital library for the e-learning specific domain using ontology-based semantic querying.

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