Analysing the reality surrounding us it is easy to reveal the increase of information available in different forms and through different media. Volumes of information availalble in “real time” and Web are concepts perceived as closely related. This perception is supported by the fact that the objective from which the Web was born is the ability to define and build a universal archive, a virtual site in which it is possible to access documents while not tied to limits of time or space. In this digital library documents are equipped with logical connections that make it possible, to each user,a definition of a reading “map” that expands according to the demands for knowledge that are gradually built up. This perspective is pointed in the direction of the “Semantic Web” a network capable of satisfying and understanding our requests, not by some “magical” telepathic communication between browser and navigator but rather a data warehouse in which documents are matched to metadata2 that permit specialised software to distinguish fields, inportance and correlation between documents. Semantic Web and library terms have an ever increasing close relationship, fundamental to progress and didactic efficiency in the knowledge society.
Semantic Web and Digital Libraries
POLETTI, Giorgio
2006
Abstract
Analysing the reality surrounding us it is easy to reveal the increase of information available in different forms and through different media. Volumes of information availalble in “real time” and Web are concepts perceived as closely related. This perception is supported by the fact that the objective from which the Web was born is the ability to define and build a universal archive, a virtual site in which it is possible to access documents while not tied to limits of time or space. In this digital library documents are equipped with logical connections that make it possible, to each user,a definition of a reading “map” that expands according to the demands for knowledge that are gradually built up. This perspective is pointed in the direction of the “Semantic Web” a network capable of satisfying and understanding our requests, not by some “magical” telepathic communication between browser and navigator but rather a data warehouse in which documents are matched to metadata2 that permit specialised software to distinguish fields, inportance and correlation between documents. Semantic Web and library terms have an ever increasing close relationship, fundamental to progress and didactic efficiency in the knowledge society.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
