Paper Presented during International Conference on What’s next in libraries? Trends, Space, and partnerships held during January 21-23, 2015 at NIT Silchar, Assam. It is being jointly organized by NIT Silchar, in association with its USA partner the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1. Samhati Soor
Documentation Research and Training Centre
Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre, India

2.  But Semantic Digital Library is not very flexible to give
information community-specific services through it.
 That is why social collaboration is needed.
TRADITIONAL
Physical space
emphasizing
physical
collections
Depends upon
the needs of the
community and
time
DIGITAL
transfigured to
modern digitized
library
emergence of
new tools and
technologies
SEMANTICDIGITAL
produce more
meaningful results
against a query
Library
professionals are
able to give more
depth information to
the users of a
particular domain.

3.  Traditionally, libraries were collections of books, manuscripts,
journals, and other sources of recorded information.
 Library, as observed by Carl White in his 'Bases of Modern
Librarianship' [1964], is that it is the product of human effort and it
is related to the whole structure of social evolution.
 According to, Dr S.R. Ranganathan, “A Library is a social
institution”. He has written that library is for life-long self-education
of one and all having up-to-date facts distributed in an unbiased
and balanced way. He mentioned the following social functions of a
library:
 To increase the economic resources
 To help the elevating self-dependent use of leisure
 To help in increasing the opportunity for spiritual awakening of one

4.  Library workings - manual in nature.
 Library operations - apparently costly and time-consuming.
 Information - static in nature.
 Tough to maintain or preserve physical media for a long duration
 Rare convenient access
 If someone borrowed a particular book, another user had to wait to read
it.

5. A Digital Library is an organized collection of multimedia and other
types of resources which are available in computer processable form.
 Introducing new tools and technologies
 Providing efficient information retrieval
 Creating digitized collection and electronic databases
 Identifying relevant sources very quickly
 Maintaining cost-effectiveness of library operations
 Encouraging co-operative efforts which leverage the considerable
investment into research resources
 Prodding fast and efficient access of information with multiple access
mode
 Giving need-based and retrospective search services to the user
 Imparting rapid access to bibliographic as well as full-text information
 Subscribing e-journals across the world
 Minimizing the massive storage and space problems in libraries
 And many more

6. Traditional Library Capability Digital Library Capability
Acquisitions and collection development Capture
Cataloging rules and bibliographic control Catalog and Index
Stacks, inventory management and shelf lists Store
Public card catalog Search
Patron privileges and circulation rules
consistent with public law and policy
Protect
Loan management and inter library loans Retrieve
Source: http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/1944/1392/1/36.pdf

7.  “Metadata” is simply 'data about data' or 'information about information'.
 According to NISO(The National Information Standards
Organization),2004:1 metadata has been refined to “structured information
that describes, explains, locates or otherwise makes it easier to
retrieve, use or manage an information resource”.
 The DCMI(Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) defines metadata as “data
associated with either an information system or an information object
for purposes of description, administration, legal requirements,
technical functionality, use and usage and preservation”.
 Describing what the resources are
 Expounding what they are about
 Enabling interoperability
 Supplying digital identification, description for archiving and the preservation
of resources
 Metadata is independent of any language.
 Metadata is extensible through attributes.

8. According to Sebastian Ryszard Kruk,
“Semantic digital libraries integrate information
based on different metadata like resources, user
profiles, bookmarks, taxonomies; provide
interoperability with other systems (not only
digital libraries) on either metadata or
communication level or both and deliver more
robust, user friendly and adaptable search and
browsing interfaces empowered by SEMANTICS”.

9. Source: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cmarcum/diglib.history.html

10. Source: http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0

11. Source: http://www.edudemic.com/what-is-web-3-0-and-how-will-it-change-education/

12.  Encoding knowledge to make it understandable by a
set of Common
 Providing the required conceptualizations and
knowledge representation
 Having Mature concepts
 Sharing common understanding of information among
people or agents
 Analyzing and re-using of domain knowledge

13. RDF (Resource Description and Framework),
DAML (DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency) Agent Markup Language)
OWL (Web Ontology Language)
 Defining things unambiguously
 Efficient and effective Interoperability technique
 Expanding and/or narrowing search terms
 Enabling “Activity-based” search
 Validating taxonomy membership
 Distributed and aggregated in nature
 Mapping DBMS, OOPs, UML
 Ontologies + Rules = Inference

14. Traditional Library Capability Digital Library
Capability
Semantic Digital Library
Capability
Acquisitions and collection
development
Capture Semantic Web Selection
Cataloging rules and
bibliographic control
Catalog and Index Semantic Representation
Stacks, inventory management
and shelf lists
Store Semantic-based Storing
Public card catalog Search Semantic Search
Patron privileges and circulation
rules consistent with public law
and policy
Protect Semantic Resource Using
Loan management and inter
library loans
Retrieve Semantic Services

15.  Semantic Digital libraries - concentration to deliver
qualitative content or information, not to share
knowledge within a community of users
 The social semantic digital library - an attempt to
restore the collaborative approach to share
knowledge.

17. DL: Digital Library
SDL: Semantic Digital Library
SSDL: Social Semantic Digital Library

18.  Overall results are more accurate for social semantic
technology users
 Factors constraint the information servers to initiate and adopt
the Social Semantic Web
 Communication barriers
 Absence of suitable metadata representations
 Absence of user-friendly applications
 Limited available literature .
 Library and information science personals need to participate
in ontology and social semantic-based conferences to explore
the technology more and also to give wider coverage to their
skills and talent.

19. Any Question?

20. Thank You