Towards an evaluation of semantic searching in digital repositories: a DSpace case-study

Q Social Sciences

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems Pub Date : 2015-01-20 DOI:10.1108/PROG-07-2013-0037

Georgia D. Solomou, Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

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Abstract

Purpose – Successful learning infrastructures and repositories often depend on well-organized content collections for effective dissemination, maintenance and preservation of resources. By combining semantic descriptions already lying or implicit within their descriptive metadata, reasoning-based or semantic searching of these collections can be enabled and produce novel possibilities for content browsing and retrieval. The specifics and necessities of such an approach, however, make it hard to assess and measure its effectiveness. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Therefore in this paper the authors introduce a concrete methodology toward a pragmatic evaluation of semantic searching in such scenarios, which is exemplified through the semantic search plugin the authors have developed for the popular DSpace repository system. Findings – The results reveal that this approach can be appealing to expert as well as novice users alike, improve the effectiveness of content dis...

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对数字存储库中语义搜索的评估:一个DSpace案例研究

目的——成功的学习基础设施和存储库通常依赖于组织良好的内容集合，以实现资源的有效传播、维护和保存。通过结合描述性元数据中已经存在或隐含的语义描述，可以启用这些集合的基于推理或语义搜索，并为内容浏览和检索提供新的可能性。然而，这种办法的具体情况和必要性使得很难评估和衡量其有效性。本文旨在探讨这些问题。设计/方法/方法——因此，在本文中，作者介绍了一种具体的方法，用于在这种情况下对语义搜索进行实用评估，通过作者为流行的DSpace存储库系统开发的语义搜索插件来举例说明。研究结果表明，这种方法可以吸引专家和新手用户，提高内容分发的有效性。

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Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

0.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： ■Automation of library and information services ■Storage and retrieval of all forms of electronic information ■Delivery of information to end users ■Database design and management ■Techniques for storing and distributing information ■Networking and communications technology ■The Internet ■User interface design ■Procurement of systems ■User training and support ■System evaluation