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Authors and documents with identical titles are common in the digital library environment. In order to manage identities correctly, authority control is used by library and information scientists for disambiguating and cross-referencing entity names. We argue that the benefits of traditional authority control can be enhanced by using techniques and technologies of the Semantic Web, leading to s...

For millennia the famous library in Hellenistic Alexandria has been praised as an epicenter of enlightenment and wisdom. And yet, a question still seems unanswered: how was its literature classified and retrieved? It is a subject that has been given surprisingly little attention by the field of library-andinformation science―indeed, by scholarship in general. Furthermore, a certain way of think...

How many resources about Wittgenstein exist on the web? How do they relate to each other? What is the most productive way to navigate them, from the point of view of a learner? With the development of the PhiloSURFical tool, we aim at investigating these and other related issues. PhiloSURFical is a software environment which builds on Semantic Web technologies in order to facilitate the navigat...

This chapter introduces OpenDLib, a Digital Library Service System developed at ISTI-CNR for easing the creation and management of Digital Libraries. It discusses the motivations underlying the development of such a system and describes it by presenting (i) the characteristics of the huge kind of content it is capable to manage, (ii) the set of functions it natively provides its Digital Librari...

WorldCat, OCLC’s bibliographic database, identifies books and the libraries that hold them. The holdings provide detailed information about the type and number of libraries that have acquired the material. Using this information, it is possible to infer the type of audience for which the material is intended. A quantitative measure, the audience level, is derived from the types of libraries tha...