Ecology is inherently cross-disciplinary, drawing together many types of information to
address questions about the natural world. Finding and integrating relevant data to assist in …

This title was first published in 2000: For its third edition, this text on knowledge organization
and retrieval has been revised and restructured to accommodate the increased significance …

COLE, PF (1958),“The analysis of reference question records as a guide to the information
requirements of scientists', Journal of Documentation, 14, 197–207 COLE, PF (1962),'A new …

2.1 EPOCH's contribution to a Research Agenda for Applications of ICT to Cultural Heritage
This report presents the results of the research agenda definition activity of the EPOCH …

This report analyzes the methodologies used in establishing interoperability among
knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as controlled vocabularies and classification …

Contents: Introduction: The importance of semantics for information science (IS) The status
of semantic research in information science. Semantics and the philosophy of science …

New technologies have made the increased globalization of information resources and
services possible. In this situation, it is ethically and intellectually beneficial to protect cultural …

Instance-based ontology mapping is a promising family of solutions to a class of ontology
alignment problems. It crucially depends on measuring the similarity between sets of …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

This paper discusses issues concerning the augmentation of thesaurus relationships, in light
of new application possibilities for retrieval. We first discuss a case study that explored the …