Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals
| Author/creator | Stuart, David Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Facet Publishing Abingdon : Bookpoint Limited [Distributor] |
| Description | 224 p. ill 24.000 x 016.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals providesan accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates theirvalue to information professionals.More data and information is being created than ever before.Ontologies, formal representations of knowledge with rich semanticrelationships, have become increasingly important in the context of todaysinformation overload and data deluge. The publishing and sharing of explicitexplanations for a wide variety of conceptualizations, in a machine readableformat, has the power to both improve information retrieval and discover newknowledge. Information professionals are key contributors to the development ofnew, and increasingly useful, ontologies.Practical Ontologies for Information Professionalsprovides an accessible introduction to the following:defining the concept of ontologies and why theyare increasingly important to information professionalsontologies and the semantic webexisting ontologies, such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS,and OWL2adopting and building ontologies, showing how toavoid repetition of work and how to build a simple ontologyinterrogating ontologies for reusethe future of ontologies and the role of the informationprofessional in their development and use.Readership: This book will be useful reading for informationprofessionals in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions who workwith digitalization projects, cataloguing and classification and information retrieval.It will also be useful to LIS students who are new to the field. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781783301041 |
| ISBN | 178330104X (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781783301041 |
| Stock number | 00015419 |
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