Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 50 Issue 1

The information resources utilization index: a case study in China

Chaolemen Borjigin, Huiling Feng, Bin Zhang, Guojun Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel method for measuring the utilization of information resources (IRs) in order to provide a complementary index for existing…

Unifying heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through the top level ontology MarineTLO

Yannis Tzitzikas, Carlo Allocca, Chryssoula Bekiari, Yannis Marketakis, Pavlos Fafalios, Martin Doerr, Nikos Minadakis, Theodore Patkos, Leonardo Candela

Marine species data are scattered across a series of heterogeneous repositories and information systems. There is no repository that can claim to have all marine species data…

Exploring the dynamic contribution behavior of editors in wikis based on time series analysis

Linghe Huang, Qinghua Zhu, Jia Tina Du, Baozhen Lee

Wiki is a new form of information production and organization, which has become one of the most important knowledge resources. In recent years, with the increase of users in…

EM3B2 – a semantic integration engine for materials science

Chongchong Zhao, Chao Dong, Xiaoming Zhang

The integration and retrieval of the vast data have attracted sufficient attention, thus the W3C workgroup releases R2RML to standardize the transformation from relational data to…

Performance and accuracy analysis of semantic kernel functions

Manoj Manuja, Deepak Garg

Syntax-based text classification (TC) mechanisms have been overtly replaced by semantic-based systems in recent years. Semantic-based TC systems are particularly useful in those…

COMAT: core ontology of matter

Devika Madalli, Anila Sulochana, Abhinav Kumar Singh

Matter is an important topic of science as a discipline since its inception. Nevertheless, along with the evolution of semantic web, matter has got equal importance among the…

Analyzing the complementarity of web infrastructure and eInnovation for business value generation

Simona Popa, Pedro Soto-Acosta, Euripidis Loukis

In recent years, there has been much debate about the value generated by the firms’ investments in information technology (IT). Although literature suggests that technology itself…