Design and evaluation of a semantic enrichment process for bibliographic databases

Article history: Received 12 March 2012 Received in revised form 7 October 2013 Accepted 8 October 2013 Available online 18 October 2013 The limited semantics of thesauri and similar knowledge models hinder the searching and browsing possibilities of the bibliographic databases classified with this type of resource. This work proposes an automatic process to convert a knowledge model into a domain ontology through the alignment with DOLCE, an upper level ontology. This process is facilitated by an intermediary alignment with WordNet, a lexical model. The process has been tested with the thesauri and bibliographic databases of Urbamet and the European Urban Knowledge Network. The Urbamet model has been used to create an atlas of urban related resources with advanced search capabilities. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.