New Book: Semantic Digital Libraries

I am looking forward to getting a hold of this just announced book, Semantic Digital Libraries, Editors: Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, DERI NUI, Galway, Bill McDaniel, DERI NUI, Galway. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE) 2009, XVI, 246 p. 1 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85433-3.

The site for the book includes Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries, a tutorial presented at JCDL2008, as well as a faceted searchable interface to the (extensive and useful) links described in the book.

Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I - Introduction to Digital Libraries and Semantic Web
    • Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization
    • Semantic Web and Ontologies
    • Social Semantic Information Spaces
  • Part II - A Vision of Semantic Digital Libraries
    • Goals of Semantic Digital Libraries
    • Architecture of Semantic Digital Libraries
    • Long-time Preservation
  • Part III - Ontologies for Semantic Digital Libraries
    • Bibliographic Ontology
    • Community-aware Ontologies
  • Part IV - Prototypes of Semantic Digital Libraries
    • JeromeDL - the Social Semantic Digital Library
    • The BRICKS Digital Library Infrastructure
    • Semantics in Greenstone
  • Part V - Building the Future - Semantic Digital Libraries in Use
    • Hyperbooks
    • Semantic Digital Libraries for Archiving
    • Evaluation of Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries
    • Conclusions: The Future of Semantic Digital Libraries



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Unknown said…
Just to let you know that I just published a new book on semantic digital libraries. See http://semdl.info/books/2 for more details.
10 February, 2010 06:47
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