TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARIES

Technologies in Libraries

Technologies in Libraries

Introduction

Traditionally libraries have shared their bibliographic metadata with other libraries. Today, libraries are being urged to experiment with semantic web and linked data technologies to increase the global exposure and interoperability of library data on the web. The main purpose of this paper of this paper is to define the meaning of this for the librarians and traditional metadata and cataloguing practices. The technology of semantic web standards is a complex process. It is difficult to conceptualize this process. However, this process is very helpful for the purpose of solving different problems associated with the libraries including the data probability, precise web search, disambiguation, authority control and classification.

Discussion

The term Semantic Web was proposed by Tim Berners Lee in 2001 to describe an evolution of the Web that would allow data (content, links) to be more easily used and interpreted automatically by software agents. To enable this development, a number of standards and technologies have been developed by the W3C, with the aim to output the data silos that are closed databases online (Hedden, 2010, p. 37). The Semantic Web assumes that the structured data (for example, the metadata contained in a library catalog) are already available, and proposes a set of techniques to make them more usable. The semantic network is a network independent of the current, but an extension, a network in which information is provided with well-defined meanings, in order that the coordination of work between humans and computers more complete (Martha 2009, p. 55). They have already taken the first steps to include the semantic network in the structure of the existing network. the near future, these developments will introduce significant new features, to make the machines multiply its ability to process and understand the data that today is only displayed on screen (Korves 2009, p. 279).

The Data Web (Linked Data) is an initiative to encourage publication of structured data on the Web, not in the form of data silos isolated from each other, but by linking them to form a global network Information. The application of Semantic Web technologies has long been limited to research. Wider adoption, for example in the corporate world, was necessary to make the Semantic Web vision a reality. Insofar as the Semantic Web technologies are aimed at individuals or organizations interested in publishing structured data on the Web, libraries have always meant to take an interest in their use (Martha, 2009, p. 55). The sharing of structured data is a mission of libraries, which have developed protocols as Z39.50 and OAI-PMH to enhance interoperability (Joint 2008, p. 173). For them, The Data Web is a vital opportunity to make their data more usable. However, for almost ten years, these techniques were not sufficiently mature to demonstrate their practical utility and convince libraries to adopt them so deep. At present, reflections on the evolution of standards and models of cataloguing in libraries integrate naturally the problem of the evolution of traditional standards to the ...