This chapter describes not so much what digital libraries are but what digital libraries with semantic support could and should be. It discusses the nature of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and how KOS can support digital library users. It projects a vision for designers to make and for users to demand better digital libraries. What is a digital library? The term “Digital Library” (DL) is...

level, you may want to skip most of it until a a second, in-depth reading. (Everyone is invited to re-read it). "KO as a Use Case for TMs" reads much easier, since here the relationship between TMs and KO is worked out in more practical terms.

An important aspect of learning is the ability to transfer knowledge from one domain to another. Recent transfer research has focused on the basic problem of how knowledge structures may be transferred and reused. In this paper, we consider the larger problem of how a learner can select the appropriate knowledge structures to transfer when many are available. We propose that previously acquired...

Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) such as classification schemes, authority files, semantic networks, ontologies are mechanisms for content organization. These systems are used to organize content for the purpose of retrieval and to manage a collection. This serves as a bridge between the user’s information need and material in the collection. Knowledge Organization Systems help the user to ...