Title
Semantic query answering in digital libraries
Abstract
A large activity for digitization, access and preservation of cultural heritage is taking place in Europe and the United States, which involves all types of cultural institutions, i.e., galleries, libraries, museums, archives and all types of cultural content. Semantic interoperability is a key issue in these developments. Content metadata constitute the main features of cultural items that are analysed and used to interpret users' queries, so that the most appropriate content is presented to the users. This paper presents a new semantic search methodology, including a query answering mechanism which meets the semantics of users' queries and enriches the answers by exploiting appropriate visual features, through an interweaved knowledge and machine learning based approach. An experimental study is presented, using content from the Europeana digital library, illustrating the improved performance of the proposed semantic search approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-30448-4_3
SETN
Keywords
Field
DocType
cultural item,semantic query answering,digital library,cultural heritage,content metadata,new semantic search methodology,semantic interoperability,cultural institution,cultural content,appropriate visual feature,appropriate content,proposed semantic search approach
Metadata,Digitization,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Semantic search,Computer science,Semantic interoperability,Semantic query,Digital library,RDF,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ilianna Kollia11009.71
Kostas Rapantzikos251.23
Giorgos Stamou3120076.88
Andreas Stafylopatis437853.30