27 pawns ready for action: A multi-indicator methodology and evaluation of thesaurus management tools from a LOD perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for assessing thesauri and other controlled vocabularies management tools that can represent content using the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) data model, and their use in a Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm. It effectively analyses selected set of tools in order to prove the validity of the method. Design/methodology/approach – A set of 27 criteria grouped in five evaluation indicators is proposed and applied to ten vocabulary management applications which are compliant with the SKOS data model. Previous studies of controlled vocabulary management software are gathered and analyzed, to compare the evaluation parameters used and the results obtained for each tool. Findings – The results indicate that the tool that obtains the highest score in every indicator is Poolparty. The second and third tools are, respectively, TemaTres and Intelligent Theme Manager, but scoring lower in most of the evaluation items. The use of a broad set of criteria to evaluate vocabularies management tools gives satisfactory results. The set of five indicators and 27 criteria proposed here represents a useful evaluation system in the selection of current and future tools to manage vocabularies. Research limitations/implications – The paper only assesses the ten most important/well know software tools applied for thesaurus and vocabulary management until October 2016. However, the evaluation criteria could be applied to new software that could appear in the future to create/manage SKOS vocabularies in compliance with LOD standards. Originality/value – The originality of this paper relies on the proposed indicators and criteria to evaluate vocabulary management tools. Those criteria and indicators can be valuable also for future software that might appear. The indicators are also applied to the most exhaustive and qualified list of this kind of tools. The paper will help designers, information architects, metadata librarians, and other staff involved in the design of digital information systems, to choose the right tool to manage their vocabularies in a LOD/vocabulary scenario

A framework for delivering personalized e-Government tourism services

E-government (e-Gov) has become one of the most important parts of government strategies. Significant efforts have been devoted to e-Gov tourism services in many countries because tourism is one of the major profitable industries. However, the current e-Gov tourism services are limited to simple online presentation of tourism information. Intelligent e-Gov tourism services, such as the personalized e-Gov (Pe-Gov) tourism services, are highly desirable for helping users decide "where to go, and what to do/see" amongst massive number of destinations and enormous attractiveness and activities. This paper proposes a framework of Pe-Gov tourism services using recommender system techniques and semantic ontology. This framework has the potential to enable tourism information seekers to locate the most interesting destinations with the most suitable activities with the least search efforts. Its workflow and some outstanding features are depicted with an example

CHORUS Deliverable 2.2: Second report - identification of multi-disciplinary key issues for gap analysis toward EU multimedia search engines roadmap

After addressing the state-of-the-art during the first year of Chorus and establishing the existing landscape in multimedia search engines, we have identified and analyzed gaps within European research effort during our second year. In this period we focused on three directions, notably technological issues, user-centred issues and use-cases and socio- economic and legal aspects. These were assessed by two central studies: firstly, a concerted vision of functional breakdown of generic multimedia search engine, and secondly, a representative use-cases descriptions with the related discussion on requirement for technological challenges. Both studies have been carried out in cooperation and consultation with the community at large through EC concertation meetings (multimedia search engines cluster), several meetings with our Think-Tank, presentations in international conferences, and surveys addressed to EU projects coordinators as well as National initiatives coordinators. Based on the obtained feedback we identified two types of gaps, namely core technological gaps that involve research challenges, and “enablers”, which are not necessarily technical research challenges, but have impact on innovation progress. New socio-economic trends are presented as well as emerging legal challenges

Regulatory dispersion and the possibilities of electronic articulation of international private law with xml: The experience of the Team of Valladolid

El presente trabajo expone la funcionalidad del lenguaje XML en el tratamiento de documentos jurídicos y la experiencia del Grupo de Valladolid en dos proyectos de investigación relacionados con documentos del Derecho internacional privado de la Unión Europea. El trabajo, que se remonta al año 2003 y que llega hasta la actualidad, se materializó en varios prototipos de aplicaciones que permiten la gestión documental de un conjunto de normas europeas de Derecho Internacional Privado. El último capítulo se plantea la pregunta de si la tecnología digital puede ayudar a resolver los problemas actuales de dispersión normativa y de quiebra del sistema en el Derecho internacional privado español o si la tecnología no es capaz de resolver.The work presents the functionality of the XML language in the treatment of legal documents and the experience of the Team of Valladolid in two research projects dealing with documents of Private International Law of the European Union. The work, which started in 2003 and continues nowadays, has produced as result several applications that support the management of a set of International Private Law European rules. The paper concludes with the question of whether digital technology can help solve the current problems due to regulatory dispersion and the failure of the system in the Spanish Private International Law.Fil: Vicente Blanco, Dámaso Francisco Javier. Universidad de Valladolid; EspañaFil: Martínez González, Mercedes. Universidad de Valladolid; España. Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique; FranciaFil: Alvite Díez, María Luisa. Universidad de León; EspañaFil: Dabove, Maria Isolina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Derecho; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

The Atlanta University Bulletin (catalogue), s. N no. 191: Catalog 1987-1989, September 1987

The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the project: Our Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions.</em

Dispersión normativa y posibilidades de articulación electrónica del Derecho Internacional Privado Europeo con XML: la experiencia del grupo de Valladolid = Regulatory dispersion and the posibilities of electronic articulation of International Private Law with XML: The experience of the Team of Valladolid

P. 133-174El presente trabajo expone la funcionalidad del lenguaje XML en el tratamiento de documentos jurídicos y la experiencia del Grupo de Valladolid en dos proyectos de investigación relacionados con documentos del Derecho internacional privado de la Unión Europea. El trabajo, que se remonta al año 2003 y que llega hasta la actualidad, se materializó en varios prototipos de aplicaciones que permiten la gestión documental de un conjunto de normas europeas de Derecho Internacional Privado. El último capítulo se plantea la pregunta de si la tecnología digital puede ayudar a resolver los problemas actuales de dispersión normativa y de quiebra del sistema en el Derecho internacional privado español o si la tecnología no es capaz de resolver.S

Inducing the Cross-Disciplinary Usage of Morphological Language Data Through Semantic Modelling

Despite the enormous technological advancements in the area of data creation and management the vast majority of language data still exists as digital single-use artefacts that are inaccessible for further research efforts. At the same time the advent of digitisation in science increased the possibilities for knowledge acquisition through the computational application of linguistic information for various disciplines. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to create the preconditions that enable the cross-disciplinary usage of morphological language data as a sub-area of linguistic data in order to induce a shared reusability for every research area that relies on such data. This involves the provision of morphological data on the Web under an open license and needs to take the prevalent diversity of data compilation into account. Various representation standards emerged across single disciplines which lead to heterogeneous data that differs with regard to complexity, scope and data formats. This situation requires a unifying foundation enabling direct reusability. As a solution to fill the gap of missing open data and to overcome the presence of isolated datasets a semantic data modelling approach is applied. Being rooted in the Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm it pursues the creation of data as uniquely identifiable resources that are realised as URIs, accessible on the Web, available under an open license, interlinked with other resources, and adhere to Linked Data representation standards such as the RDF format. Each resource then contributes to the LOD cloud in which they are all interconnected. This unification results from ontologically shared bases that formally define the classification of resources and their relation to other resources in a semantically interoperable manner. Subsequently, the possibility of creating semantically structured data has sparked the formation of the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) research community and LOD sub-cloud containing primarily language resources. Over the last decade, ontologies emerged mainly for the domain of lexical language data which lead to a significant increase in Linked Data-based linguistic datasets. However, an equivalent model for morphological data is still missing, leading to a lack of this type of language data within the LLOD cloud. This thesis presents six publications that are concerned with the peculiarities of morphological data and the exploration of their semantic representation as an enabler of cross-disciplinary reuse. The Multilingual Morpheme Ontology (MMoOn Core) as well as an architectural framework for morphemic dataset creation as RDF resources are proposed as the first comprehensive domain representation model adhering to the LOD paradigm. It will be shown that MMoOn Core permits the joint representation of heterogeneous data sources such as interlinear glossed texts, inflection tables, the outputs of morphological analysers, lists of morphemic glosses or word-formation rules which are all equally labelled as “morphological data” across different research areas. Evidence for the applicability and adequacy of the semantic modelling entailed by the MMoOn Core ontology is provided by two datasets that were transformed from tabular data into RDF: the Hebrew Morpheme Inventory and Xhosa RDF dataset. Both further demonstrate how their integration into the LLOD cloud - by interlinking them with external language resources - yields insights that could not be obtained from the initial source data. Altogether the research conducted in this thesis establishes the foundation for an interoperable data exchange and the enrichment of morphological language data. It strives to achieve the broader goal of advancing language data-driven research by overcoming data barriers and discipline boundaries