SEMLIB

Semantic tools for digital libraries

Coordinatore	NET7 SRL    more  Organization address address: VIA MARCHE 10 city: PISA postcode: 56123 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Barbera Cognome: Michele Email: send email Telefono: 39050552574 Fax: 39050552574
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	921˙283 €
EC contributo	701˙579 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2010-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-01-01   -   2012-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	NET7 SRL  Organization address address: VIA MARCHE 10 city: PISA postcode: 56123 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Barbera Cognome: Michele Email: send email Telefono: 39050552574 Fax: 39050552574	IT (PISA)	coordinator	207˙459.60
2	Liberologico Srl  Organization address address: Via Gozzini 15-17 city: PISA postcode: 56121 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ponticelli Cognome: Paola Email: send email Telefono: 39050877088 Fax: 39508755498	IT (PISA)	participant	180˙299.60
3	IN2 SEARCH INTERFACES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED  Organization address address: GREAT HAMPTON STREET 69 city: BIRMINGHAM postcode: B18 6EW contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Georgios Cognome: Ioannidis Email: send email Telefono: +49 421 2208236 Fax: +49 179 332286677	UK (BIRMINGHAM)	participant	180˙286.95
4	KNOWLEDGE HIVES SP ZOO  Organization address address: ROKITNIKOWA 11 city: GDYNIA postcode: 81-589 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Kruk Cognome: Sebastian Email: send email Telefono: 48525110114 Fax: 48587420531	PL (GDYNIA)	participant	127˙133.10
5	NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY  Organization address address: University Road - city: GALWAY contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Maria Cognome: Smyth Email: send email Telefono: +353 91 495015 Fax: +353 91 495541	IE (GALWAY)	participant	3˙200.00
6	UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE  Organization address address: PIAZZA ROMA 22 city: ANCONA postcode: 60121 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Piazza Cognome: Francesco Email: send email Telefono: 390712000000 Fax: 390712000000	IT (ANCONA)	participant	3˙200.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The SMEs partners of SEMLIB all have their own products to develop and manage Digital Libraries, Archives and Digital Object Repositories, which are central components for many IT systems. The main objective of SEMLIB is to enhance these products with two Semantic Web components, a recommender system and an annotation system, developed by the RTD performers. The inclusion of these components into the SME products will make it possible to join the digital libraries powered by the SME products into federations and to exploit existing data on the Semantic Web made available by third parties. This will significantly enhance the end-user experience and give a distinct competitive advantage to the SMEs.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

New software solutions make searching digital libraries easier and more productive.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

A digital library is any computerised system that distributes digital content to a community of users. Most digital libraries have twin functions of storing and preserving content, and delivering it to end users. These may be humans or other software applications.

Often, however, digital libraries incompletely utilise modern technology, imposing bottlenecks and inefficiencies on their potential use. Semantic web technologies offer solutions by improving searchability for humans, and assisting software to track connections and links. These relatively new technologies have yet to be fully adopted by the digital library market.

One EU-funded initiative aimed to support European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by helping them improve their services through semantic web technologies. The 'Semantic tools for digital libraries' (SEMLIB) project was a collaboration among one Irish and one Italian university, and four SMEs. It began in 2011, securing funding for 24 months. Its three main goals included developing software tools that facilitate export and republishing of metadata, exploit the republished metadata, and use it to improve searching and browsing.

The collaboration resulted in two new software tools. The Pundit web annotation system allows users to annotate web pages, and to link those notes to other web pages or web objects. This creates a network of linked web objects, a potentially valuable resource showing connections and structure in apparently unrelated objects. It may, for example, be used as an individual or collaborative research tool, drawing together snippets of related information from various web sources. Pundit is open-source software. SLDR is a linked data recommendation system. It is essentially a database of related objects, which uses semantic engines to recommend additional similar content. The system will intelligently extrapolate from input search terms to suggest other terms, similar to what the user intended.

The SEMLIB project achieved its aims, and has implemented its software tools as demonstrative applications for four European SMEs. The software brings clear advantages to these SME contexts, and helps improve their services.