Library Hi Tech: Volume 31 Issue 4

Linking and opening vocabularies LHT special issue: Editorial

Jane Greenberg, Eva Mendez Rodriguez, Gema Bueno de la Fuente

This editorial underscores the importance of linked data and linked open data (LD/LOD) in contemporary librarianship and information science. It aims to present the motivation for…

datos.bne.es and MARiMbA: an insight into library linked data

Daniel Vila-Suero, Asunción Gómez-Pérez

Linked data is gaining great interest in the cultural heritage domain as a new way for publishing, sharing and consuming data. The paper aims to provide a detailed method and…

Proposal of a controlled vocabulary to solve semantic interoperability problems in social security information exchanges

Francisco Delgado Azuara, José Ramón Hilera González, Raul Ruggia

– This report aims to present the state of play of semantic interoperability problems in social security data exchanges.

Building a platform for linked open thesauri

Qing Zou

– The paper aims to investigate issues surrounding publishing thesauri as linked data and explores a systematic way for publishing linked open thesauri

Evaluation of semantic retrieval systems on the semantic web

Jorge Luis Morato, Sonia Sanchez-Cuadrado, Christos Dimou, Divakar Yadav, Vicente Palacios

– This paper seeks to analyze and evaluate different types of semantic web retrieval systems, with respect to their ability to manage and retrieve semantic documents.

Requirements for vocabulary preservation and governance

Thomas Baker, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Bernard Vatant

The paper seeks to analyze the health of the vocabulary ecosystem in terms of requirements, addressing its various stakeholders such as maintainers of linked open vocabularies…

Media Commons: the process and value of centralizing services

Lori S. Mestre

This paper aims to provide details of a collaborative campus effort that created a Media Commons at an undergraduate library at a major research university to provide students and…

Developing and completing a library mobile technology survey to create a user-centered mobile presence

Danielle Andre Becker, Ingrid Bonadie-Joseph, Jonathan Cain

The purpose of this paper is to discover how many of the authors' own university students own internet-enabled mobile devices and how they use them. That information will be…

The cultivation of scientific data specialists: Development of LIS education oriented to e-science service requirements

Li Si, Xiaozhe Zhuang, Wenming Xing, Weining Guo

This article aims to summarize the employers' requirements of scientific data specialists and the status quo of LIS education organizations' training system for scientific data…

Classification of scientific publications according to library controlled vocabularies: A new concept matching-based approach

Arash Joorabchi, Abdulhussain E. Mahdi

This paper aims to report on the design and development of a new approach for automatic classification and subject indexing of research documents in scientific digital libraries…

LHT reviewers 2013