Ontology-driven semantic digital library

Abstract

This paper discusses an on-going research project in developing a semantic digital library for academic institution. It provides another view of semantic information retrieval for digital library from the perspective of semantic technology and ontology. We proposed an approach for managing, organizing and populating ontology for document collections in digital library. In this sense the document metadata and content are inserted and populated to a knowledge base which allows sophisticated query and searching. The paper also proposed an ontology based information retrieval model which is based on the classic vector space model which includes document annotation, instance-based weighting and concept-based ranking. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.