Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that concept naming alone in document annotation is not sufficient to convey the thought content of the information resource. The paper presents an outline of semantic document annotation which combines two major processes: facet analysis and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and prove the feasibility of a semantic web (SW) based approach to textual encoding. It aims to discuss benefits and novel possibilities with respect to traditional XML‐based approaches. Design/methodology/approach – The markup process...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore addressing the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues of exchanging agricultural research output by means of the AGRIS application profile – an exchange metadata standard – and controlled vocabularies or subject‐specific...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide support for automation of the annotation process of large corpora of digital content. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents and discusses an information extraction pipeline from digital document acquisition to information...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of unified modelling language (UML) based ontologies to develop a faceted model to facilitate semantic browsing and searching in digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to understand the way information gets...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse whether, and how far, library and information services (LIS) are involved in e‐Science and grid computing projects funded by authorities in the European Union and Germany. It explains and emphasises the relevance of LIS‐based information services and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pros and cons of computing the h‐index using Scopus. Design/methodology/approach – The paper looks at the content features and the software capabilities of Scopus from the perspective of computing a reasonable h‐index for scholars....