Social Semantic Digital Libraries in a Nutshell Sebastian Ryszard Kruk Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway sebastian.kruk @deri.org http:// www.sebastiankruk.com /

Different User Roles – Different Requirements Cross referrencing Ease of use Semantic Web Web 2.0 Digital Libraries Legacy KOS Social Semantic Digital Libraries

What is a Social Semantic Digital Library? Social semantic digital libraries integrate information from various sources provide interoperability with other systems (not only libraries) deliver more robust, user friendly and adaptable search and browsing interfaces empowered by semantics and social networking

Social semantic digital libraries

integrate information from various sources

provide interoperability with other systems (not only libraries)

deliver more robust, user friendly and adaptable search and browsing interfaces empowered by semantics and social networking

JeromeDL – Social Semantic D igital L ibrary Digital Library build with semantics and communities in mind Build to reflect requirements of: Librarians Researchers Average users Ultimate goal – accessibility achieved through Interface design Search and browsing technologies In-depth internationalization effort

Digital Library build with semantics and communities in mind

Build to reflect requirements of:

Librarians

Researchers

Average users

Ultimate goal – accessibility achieved through

Interface design

Search and browsing technologies

In-depth internationalization effort

Ontologies in JeromeDL

JeromeDL – Delivering Semantic Content Providing semantic annotations during uploading process: open module (JOnto) for handling any taxonomies keywords based on : WordNet free tagging defining structure of resources in the JeromeDL ontology Lifting legacy metadata to MarcOnt ontology Community maintained annotations social semantic collaborative filtering semantic descriptions based on the FOAF metadata

Providing semantic annotations during uploading process:

open module (JOnto) for handling any taxonomies

keywords based on :

WordNet

free tagging

defining structure of resources in the JeromeDL ontology

Lifting legacy metadata to MarcOnt ontology

Community maintained annotations

social semantic collaborative filtering

semantic descriptions based on the FOAF metadata

JeromeDL – Semantic Information In Use Keyword-based search with semantic query expansion Semantic search: Direct RDF querying Natural language templates Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering Faceted Navigation: creators, types, keywords, topics Heterogeneous communication: Bibster , A9 , OAI

Keyword-based search with semantic query expansion

Semantic search:

Direct RDF querying

Natural language templates

Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering

Faceted Navigation:

creators,

types,

keywords,

topics

Heterogeneous communication:

Bibster , A9 , OAI

Getting your own copy of JeromeDL JeromeDL is distributed under BSD-style open source license You can get it though: Home page: http:// www.jeromedl.org / S ourceForge .net page: http:// sf.net/projects/jeromedl / A guide to JeromeDL: http:// www.jeromedl.org /guide/ You can also get JeromeDL 2.0 Box on CD – please contact us for further information

JeromeDL is distributed under BSD-style open source license

You can get it though:

Home page: http:// www.jeromedl.org /

S ourceForge .net page: http:// sf.net/projects/jeromedl /

A guide to JeromeDL: http:// www.jeromedl.org /guide/

You can also get JeromeDL 2.0 Box on CD – please contact us for further information

Semantic Components Framework JeromeDL TM semantic digital library knowledge sharing SSCF TM FOAFRealm TM social networks based DRM scalable P2P infrastructure TM TM on-demand e-learning mediation ontology & services MarcOnt TM

JeromeDL answer s various expectations as the Digital Library on Social Semantic Information Spaces http://www.jeromedl.org/ http://wiki.jeromedl.org/ Sebastian Ryszard Kruk DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland [email_address]

JeromeDL answer s

various expectations

as the Digital Library on Social Semantic Information Spaces

http://www.jeromedl.org/

http://wiki.jeromedl.org/

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk

DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

[email_address]