Category Archives: Systems

Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails

Posted on March 23, 2012 by mzarro

Käki, M. (2005). Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI  ’05 (pp. 131–140). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1054972.1054991 In this study, a web search … Continue reading →

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An unsupervised approach to automatic classification of scientific literature utilizing bibliographic metadata

Posted on March 15, 2012 by xliu

Joorabchi, A. and Mahdi A. E., An unsupervised approach to automatic classification of scientific literature utilizing bibliographic metadata, Journal of Information Science, 37, 5 (2011), 499–514 This article  describes an unsupervised approach for automatic classification of scientific literature archived in … Continue reading →

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ThManager: an open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Catherine

Citation: ThManager: an open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS. Javier Lacasta, Francisco Javier Lopez-Pellicer, Pedro Rafael Muro- Medrano, Javier Nogueras-Iso, and Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria. Information Technology and Libraries. 26.3 (Sept. 2007). Also: http://thmanager.sourceforge.net/index.html ThManager is an Open Source Tool … Continue reading →

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SIS – TMS : A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections

Posted on October 7, 2011 by xliu

Doerr M., Fundulaki I. (1998). SIS-TMS: A thesaurus management system for distributed digital collections. Proc. 2nd European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL’98), (C. Nikolaou and C. Stephanidis eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1513, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 215-234. Introduction The focus … Continue reading →

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Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks

Posted on November 19, 2010 by mzhang

Citation Katifori. A., Torou. E., Vassilakis. C., Lepouras, G., Halatsis, C.. Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks. Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008: 133 – 140 Summary This paper is a … Continue reading →

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ThManager: An open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS

Posted on November 16, 2010 by hzhao

Lacasta, J., Nogueras-Iso, J., Lopez-Pellicer, F. J., Muro-Medrano, P. R., & Zarazaga-Soria, F. J. (2007). ThManager: An open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS. Information Technology and Libraries, 26(3), 39-50. In this paper, the authors presented the design and … Continue reading →

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Supporting user tasks through visualisation of light-weight ontologies

Posted on November 7, 2010 by hzhao

Fluit, C., Sabou, M., & Van Harmelen, F. (2003). Supporting user tasks through visualisation of light-weight ontologies. In Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems (pp. 415–434). Springer-Verlag. This paper explores how to use visualizations in ontology-based semantic web. Based on … Continue reading →

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LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data

Posted on November 5, 2010 by mzarro

A technique for converting Library of Congress Subject Headings MARCXML to Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) RDF is described. Strengths of the SKOS vocabulary are highlighted, as well as possible points for extension, and the integration of other semantic web vocabularies such as Dublin Core. An application for making the vocabulary available as linked- data on the Web is also described. Continue reading →

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Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Cross-Community Learning

Posted on November 4, 2010 by kbertel

Citation: Novak, J., Wurst, M. (2005). Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Cross-Community Learning. Knowledge and Information Visualization, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. 3426: 95-116. Summary: This paper primarily deals with developing a tool for sharing knowledge among individual users and a community … Continue reading →

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Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mzarro

Lei Zeng, M., & Mai Chan, L. (2004). Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(5), 377-395. doi:10.1002/asi.10387 This work examines methods used for establishing interoperability among … Continue reading →

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