Results of the Evaluation of the Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries

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Sebastian Kruk

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Mar 6, 2008, 5:40:17 PM3/6/08

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Dear all,

I would like to share with you very fresh results of the evaluation of social and semantic technologies for digital libraries.

I executed this evaluation in January 2008, and it is the key, final point of my PhD, as it is closely related to JeromeDL.

I am going to publish and announce this document in a couple of days. I would like to ask you to help me shape it better.

I would like to make sure the message will not go unnoticed and the results will convince more people to the power of semantic digital libraries.

I have attached a preview of the report. To download the complete document please go to [http://library.deri.ie/resource/ARfuVUi8], or click the PDF icon.

I will appreciate any comments you might have. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Sebastian Kruk

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Sebastian Ryszard Kruk , Ewelina Kruk , Stankiewicz Katarzyna , Ewelina Kruk (Ed.) , Sebastian Ryszard Kruk (Ed.) :Results of the Evaluation of the Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries Not published

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Ewelina Kruk, Stankiewicz Katarzyna: Results of the Evaluation of the Semantic and Social Technologies for Digital Libraries

Libraries are the tools we use to learn and to answer our questions. The quality of our work depends, among others, on the quality of the tools we use. Recent research in digital libraries is focused, on one hand on improving the infrastructure of the digital library management systems (DLMS), and on the other on improving the metadata models used to annotate collections of objects maintained by DLMS. The latter includes, among others, the semantic web and social networking technologies. Recently, the semantic web and social networking technologies are being introduced to the digital libraries. The expected outcome is that the overall quality of information discovery in digital libraries can be improved by employing social and semantic technologies. In this report we present the results of an evaluation of social and semantic end-user information discovery services. We analyze the quality of answers provided by the users of two digital library systems; one with and one without enhanced information discovery features. We measure the accuracy with, e.g., precision and recall metrics, of the references listed by the participants. Finally, we analyze various users satisfaction measures.
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