We are pleased to announce that the SEMLIB project (FP7-SME-2010-1-SEMLIB 262301) launched a call for independent international experts in the field of digital libraries. Selected individuals will provide expertise in support of the evaluation of the the project activities and help the consortium to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for applying its technologies.
The term Digital Library refers to a wide array of different organisations and collections that share the common trait of exposing digital content to a community of users. Digital libraries are applied in many different contexts ranging from academic institutions to public libraries, archives, museums and industries. The type of content that is stored in digital libraries varies depending on the organisation, it can either be reproduction of physical objects or content which is "born digital". Usually a digital library has two main functions: to store and preserve content and to deliver it to end users, being it a human consumer or another software application. Until today most digital libraries (DLs) only took limited advantage of the benefits that modern computing technologies offer.
Semantic tools for digital libraries a.k.a. SemLib is a 24th month R&D project supported by EU FP7 Theme: Research for SMEs (no. FP7-SME-2010-01-262301-SEMLIB) commenced in January 2011.
SemLib will produce three components that will be integrated into the SME products:
A Tool to export existing metadata in RDF and publish it as Linked Data (Web of Data);
A Semantic Annotation System, to exploit user-generated RDF metadata and publish it as Linked Data;
A Semantic Recommender System, to use Linked Data to improve searching and browsing in the DLs.
