JeromeDL - Reconnecting Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web

In the recent years more and more information has been made available on the Web. High quality information is often stored in dedicated digital libraries, which are on their way to become expanding islands of well organized information. However, managing this information still poses challenges. The Semantic Web provides technologies that help to meet these challenges. In this article we present JeromeDL, a full fledged opensource digital library system developed by us, that exemplifies how digital libraries benefit from the Semantic Web. We define and evaluate how browsing and searching based on the semantic descriptions of resources and users improves the usability of a digital library, and how digital libraries can be interconnected to exchange semantic descriptions.