“The Semantic Web and Online General Reference”
Credo Reference’s President, John Dove, gave a talk at the November, 2008 Charleston Conference on “The Problem of the Common User Interface”. He has also created a paper based on that talk, entitled “The Semantic Web and Online General Reference – Are We There Yet, or Any Time Soon?”. From his abstract:
In this paper I propose an approach to applying the concepts of the Semantic Web to the area of online general reference for libraries. This is motivated by a belief that if content owners can prepare their content in an appropriate fashion for participation in online environments, then user interface developers can provide users with compelling capabilities that go across a very broad spectrum of library-acquired content. This will make that content far more valuable to users and will even mean that user interface developers working for one publisher would have ways of interacting with content from many other publishers and vice versa. This would open up a significant set of opportunities for innovation for the benefit of users, libraries, and the publishers who provide the content.
Find the full text of his paper here.
