Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a general framework that incorporates collaborative social tagging with a novel ontology scheme conveying multiple perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – This paper proposes a framework where multiple users tag the same object (an image...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the integration of digital library (DL) technologies with ontology‐based knowledge representation in providing semantic rich information access (IA) in e‐learning. DL technologies have powerful and flexible content management and access...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss alternative definitions of and approaches to the semantic web. It aims to clarify the relationship between the semantic web, Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review and evaluation of...

In this paper we present a number of metrics for usage of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Since the ADS is used by the entire astronomical community, these are indicative of how the astronomical literature is used. We will show how the use of the ADS has changed both quantitatively...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of documentation for digital humanities resources. This includes technical documentation of textual markup or database construction, and procedural documentation about resource construction. Design/methodology/approach – A case...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate current approaches to assessing digitisation activities in memory institutions. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative and quantitative analysis of digitisation surveys were performed. Analysis concentrated on several themes: general...

Purpose – Web content has been widely used for recommending personal webpages. Despite its popularity, the content‐based approach regards a webpage simply as a piece of text, thereby often resulting in less authoritative recommendations of webpages. This paper aims to propose novel...