2000 ScholOnto
- (Buckingham Shum et al., 2000) ⇒ Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, and John Domingue. (2000). “ScholOnto: An ontology-based digital library server for research documents and discourse." In: International Journal on Digital Libraries, 3(3). doi:10.1007/s007990000034
Subject Headings: Scholarly Discourse, Scientific Publishing, Ontology, Knowledge-based System, Argumentation, Internet Digital Library.
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Key words: Scholarly discourse - Scientific publishing – Ontologies – Knowledge-based systems – Argumentation – Visualisation – Eprint servers – Internet-digital-libraries.
Abstract
The internet is rapidly becoming the first place for researchers to publish documents, but at present they receive little support in searching, tracking, analysing or debating concepts in a literature from scholarly perspectives. This paper describes the design rationale and implementation of ScholOnto, an ontology-based digital library server to support scholarly interpretation and discourse. It enables researchers to describe and debate via a semantic network the contributions a document makes, and its relationship to the literature. The paper discusses the computational services that an ontology-based server supports, alternative user interfaces to support interaction with a large semantic network, usability issues associated with knowledge formalisation, new work practices that could emerge, and related work.
1 Introduction
It is becoming standard practice for researchers to publish their documents on the internet (or intranets), via personal, institutional and discipline-specific servers. As older documents are gradually digitized, and scientific publishers reconceptualize their roles, we move towards the highly desirable situation (for researchers) of instant access to scholarly documents. What remains largely unaddressed is the key challenge of managing this ocean of information. Publishing documents is the only first step. Obtaining the best documents is the next, harder step, and interpreting them the next, and most complex to support computationally within a digital library. In this article we present work on a digital library server which overlays on conventional documents and metadata a semantic web of scholarly claims, discourse and perspectives. We seek to augment individual analysis of literatures for significant conceptual structures, provide more effective discovery of relevant documents, and enable structured discourse between researchers.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2000 ScholOnto | Enrico Motta John Domingue Simon Buckingham Shum | ScholOnto: An ontology-based digital library server for research documents and discourse | International Journal on Digital Libraries | http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/scholonto/docs/ScholOnto-IJoDL-2000.pdf | 10.1007/s007990000034 | 2000 |