A new type of search engine that understands semantics and the meaning of whole phrases, rather than just looking for individual words or groups of words
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Digital Libraries and Ontology
Neide Santos (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Fernanda C.A. Campos (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), and Regina M.M. Braga Villela (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch020
Abstract
Nowadays, social, economical, cultural, and technological changes deeply stress the professional profiles. As a consequence, everyone needs to be continually improving his/her professional skills by means of different kinds of continuing learning or lifelong learning. This changeable context also stresses the teachers’ job. Networking technologies can be useful in helping teachers to improve their skills anywhere (i.e., home, office, or school). However, the Web had grown up as a business space and has become an important repository of all kinds of information. As a result, searching information is a hard and slow process. Tools for data retrieval work at the syntactic level, disregarding the semantic aspects. Solutions show up to Web Semantic technologies. Our contribution is to develop a digital library for the e-learning specific domain using ontology-based semantic querying.