Sharing knowledge across language barriers: a universal approach for online books.

Our focus is on a real case of a massive collection of online books (e-books), the case of EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems). It is a massive collection of documentation, under constant change, aiming at different categories of readers coming from multiple linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The current paper aims at presenting a system to navigate bibliographical information of books as well as their contents in any natural language. The system has three modules. The first module deals with the semantic representation of the content of the book using UNL technology. The second module deals with representation of cataloging information. The third module deals with the interface through which the user will read both of the bibliographical information and the content of a given book in his/her native language.