Abstract:
The automation of bibliographic catalog and house-keeping
operations in a library and/or the introduction of digital library system
have seldom delivered context-specific or personalized information for
the end user. The existing cataloging and classification rules do not
provide intelligent mechanism to store and retrieve ever-expanding
information resources. Adopting semantic technology with ontology as
the formalism to represent all resources can provide a better system for
information storage and retrieval. This paper presents a resource
ontology developed using any cataloging rule to provide semantic
description of the resources (both printed and digital) of a library and
the technical solution architecture to provide semantic library services
triggered by an ontology management infrastructure and software
agents. Separate ontologies to manage user community, classification
scheme and subject categorization of resources enhance the semantics
of user management and information retrieval.
