Digital libraries as a social media

Abstract

This paper presents an innovative approach for enhancing digital li-braries functionalities. An innovative distributed architecture involving digital libraries for effective and efficient knowledge sharing was developed. In the frame of this architecture semantic services were implemented, offering multi language and multi culture support, adaptability and knowledge resources rec-ommendation, based on the use of ontologies, metadata and user modeling. New methods for teacher education using digital libraries and knowledge shar-ing were developed. These new methods were successfully applied in more than 15 pilot experiments in seven European countries, with more than 3000 teachers trained.