...Montserrat Batet; David Sánchez Purpose To overcome the limitations of purely statistical approaches to data protection, the purpose of this paper is to propose Semantic Disclosure Control (SeDC): an inherently semantic privacy protection paradigm that, by relying on state of the art semantic...

...Chihli Hung; Chih‐Fong Tsai; Shin‐Yuan Hung; Chang‐Jiang Ku Purpose A grid information retrieval model has benefits for sharing resources and processing mass information, but cannot handle conceptual heterogeneity without integration of semantic information. The purpose of this research...

...Yi‐ling Lin; Peter Brusilovsky; Daqing He Purpose The goal of the research is to explore whether the use of higher‐level semantic features can help us to build better self‐organising map (SOM) representation as measured from a human‐centred perspective. The authors also explore an automatic...

...Lin‐Chih Chen Purpose Term suggestion is a very useful information retrieval technique that tries to suggest relevant terms for users' queries, to help advertisers find more appropriate terms relevant to their target market. This paper aims to focus on the problem of using several semantic...

... Semantics Linguistics The monograph Human Information Retrieval is intellectually dense and draws extensively on works from many diverse scientific disciplines. The book is an original research monograph based on some previously journal articles. Warner seeks to expand the framework...

...F J García‐Peñalvo; C G de Figuerola; J A Merlo; Haklae Kim; John Breslin; Jae Hwa Choi Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate some general features of folksonomies and user‐generated content with copyright issues, and to present semantic representation for folksonomies using a tag...

...Marietjie Schutte Chapter 9 illustrates how semantic approaches can be used to find, extract and structure information from natural language texts on the web, and Chapter 10 offers a detailed example of a solution to the problem of converting legacy relational databases into normalised database...

...Marietjie Schutte Chapters 1‐3 introduce the concept of semantic web applications, discuss the industrial use of semantics and consider how well semantic web technologies can be applied to various personalisation applications. Chapters 4‐6 call for specific methods and primitives to be used...

...Bendik Bygstad; Gheorghita Ghinea; Geir‐Tore Klæboe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine from a socio‐technical point of view the impact of semantic web technology on the strategic, organisational and technological levels. The semantic web initiative holds great promise for the future...

... of Experience Knowledge Structure, among the various EU banking supervisors. Design/methodology/approach Recent theoretical advances in the use of semantic web languages are introduced and put theoretically into force in the context. Additionally, a first‐hand questionnaire is directed to the supervisors...

...Marietjie Schutte In Chapter 6 the authors put forward the notion of combining information extraction tools with knowledge representation tools to achieve semantic annotation and ontology population. This approach enables resources to be semantically tagged by metadata so that software agents...

...) tools should take the mentioned shortcoming of existing PKM tools into account. Implementing the CDS model can be a way to make PKM tools interoperable. Originality/value This paper presents research combining cognitive psychology, personal knowledge management and semantic web technologies. The CDS...

.../methodology/approach Traditional DRM and open licensing initiatives lack the required computerised support and flexibility to scale to internet‐wide copyright management. Our approach is based on a semantic web ontology that conceptualises the copyright domain. Findings The Copyright Ontology facilitates...

...A.R.D. Prasad; Devika P. Madalli; Aparajita Suman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of unified modelling language (UML) based ontologies to develop a faceted model to facilitate semantic browsing and searching in digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach The approach...

...A.R.D. Prasad; A.R.D. Prasad; Nabonita Guha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that concept naming alone in document annotation is not sufficient to convey the thought content of the information resource. The paper presents an outline of semantic document annotation which combines two...

...A.R.D. Prasad; Giovanni Tummarello; Christian Morbidoni; Paolo Puliti; Francesco Piazza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate and prove the feasibility of a semantic web (SW) based approach to textual encoding. It aims to discuss benefits and novel possibilities with respect...

...Lan Anh Tran Over the last few years the semantic web has gained greater attention from librarians and information professionals. They are looking for relevant knowledge and information, advice and answers that can support them in developing a more library‐like web (termed “semantic knitting...

... unpredictable dynamic changes that commonly exist in e‐service workflow, a set of QoS specifications and monitoring mechanisms in a P2P workflow framework is proposed. These specifications are an evolving extension of services' description with semantic web facilitators for P2P‐based e‐services. Findings...

...Mariemma Yagüe; Ernesto Damiani; Cristiano Fugazza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the advantages of semantics‐aware representation formalisms in the integration of digital rights management (DRM) infrastructures grounded on heterogeneous formats. Design/methodology/approach...

... issue was an outcome of the organization of activities of the First Online Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'05). Originality/value The emphasis on “semantics” addresses the importance of the languages in which metadata records are created, their adequacy for the functions...