The instantiation of OmniPaper RDF prototype in the context of scientific publications
| Pages | 767-778 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470910998506 |
| Published date | 02 October 2009 |
| Date | 02 October 2009 |
| Author | Teresa Susana Mendes Pereira,Ana Alice Baptista |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
The instantiation of OmniPaper
RDF prototype in the context of
scientific publications
Teresa Susana Mendes Pereira
Superior School of Business Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo,
Valenc¸a, Portugal, and
Ana Alice Baptista
Information System Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho,
Guimara
˜es, Portugal
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an instance of the system developed in the
OmniPaper project, regarding the mechanisms of distributed information retrieval. These mechanisms
were developed for newspaper articles and they were then instantiated in the context of the scientific
publication.
Design/methodology/approach – One of the steps of the system’s development was the definition
of the metadata layer that supports the research and the navigation functionalities as well as the
contents’ syndication. Several tasks were performed for the definition of the metadata layer, namely:
analysis of several metadata standard vocabularies; selection of the metadata elements; definition of
an application profile and the RSS template; development of a metadatabase, through the use of a
native Resource Description Framework (RDF) database management system to store the RSS
descriptions of the scientific publications; implementation of the search and navigation processes
developed in the prototype; finally, tests and validation of all developed functionalities.
Findings – The RSS technology is well suited for handling the description of scientific contents. RDF
records that were used in the OmniPaper RDF prototype were replaced by RSS. The subject and lexical
thesauri were kept. This strong metadata layer allows the creation of several services that facilitate the
conceptual search of scientific contents.
Research limitations/implications – The system implemented was tested but not evaluated in a
real environment with specific users.
Originality/value – This paper presents a system that uses a central metadatabase to support
conceptual searching mechanisms. This is a solution for a value-added service for the scientific
community that is fully based in state-of-the-art standard technologies and is fully open for integration
with other systems. Moreover this could be implemented by journals to improve the current
mechanisms used to access, distribute and disseminate the scientific research developments.
Keywords Publications,Communications, Databases, Information retrieval,
Resource description framework
Paper type Research paper
1. Introduction
Today the web is an important and widely used information source. In fact the
increased use of the web associated to the constant evolution of technologies has
promoted the development of sophisticated information systems to facilitate the access
and dissemination of scientific contents produced by scientific communities. However,
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Received 1 March 2008
Revised 15 September 2008
Accepted 24 October 2008
The Electronic Library
Vol. 27 No. 5, 2009
pp. 767-778
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DOI 10.1108/02640470910998506
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