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dr. Sebastian Ryszard Kruk is the co-founder and CEO of KnowledgeHives.com, a Web 3.0 startup. Previously, he was a PhD student, researcher (Semantic Infrastructure Lab at e-Learning Cluster in DERI NUI Galway), and project manager (Corrib.org) affiliated with DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway and the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). His main areas of interest cover Semantic Web and social networking technologies, digital libraries, knowledge management, information retrieval, security and distributed computing.

In 2002, together with prof. Henryk Krawczyk he came up with an idea of the semantic digital library which was implemented first at GUT as the Elvis-DL project. In 2004, together with prof. Stefan Decker he transformed Elvis-DL into an open source project called JeromeDL, which was established as a joint initiative between DERI NUI Galway and GUT. In 2006 he delivered JOnto component, a unified API for
accessing different knowledge organization systems; recently published OpenVocabulary service builds on the ideas researched in the JOnto project. Together with Adam Gzella, he set up notitio.us - a social semantic information sources discovery and sharing service. His company has released the digi.me service, which grew out of ideas researched in the notitio.us.

In 2008, together with Bill McDaniel he edited a book, and contributed to most of the chapters, on Semantic Digital Libraries (published by Springer). He was invited to give five tutorials (at ICSD, JCDL, ESWC,WWW) on Semantic Digital Libraries and one on tutorials on Web 3.0 (Autumn Meetings of PTI). In 2007, he organized the Irish Digital Libraries Summit and co-organized a Workshop on Web Archiving and NKOS
Workshop (at ESWC 2006).

He contributes to the Open Source community. He received the best paper award for the paper "Semantically Enhanced Search Services in Digital Libraries" at the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2006.

Target Audience

Researchers and computer scientists from (digital) library, semantic web, distributed systems and knowledge management communities; with an introductory or intermediate level of experience in the presented topics.

Schedule

This full day tutorial will consist of two parts:

  • Part I [9am-12pm]: During the morning session the attendees will learn how Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies can be applied to digital library systems; they will also get introduced to existing solutions of semantic digital libraries.
  • Part II [1pm-4pm]: During the afternoon session, which will be the hands-on session, the attendees will learn how to install and use JeromeDL, one of existing semantic digital library systems.

We recommend registration for Part I for people who want to get familiar with digital library, Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies in general, and to learn how they can be combined together. Part II will allow participants to get familiar with specific applications of semantic digital libraries and gain hands-on experience.

IMPORTANT: Please bring your laptops with you for the hands-on session. If you can, please install Java (version JDK 5 or higher)

Par I - Morning session [9am-12pm]

  • Introduction to Semantic Digital Libraries [ 60 min ]:
    • Welcome
    • Semantic Web
    • Semantic Digital Libraries
      • Rationale
      • Ontologies
      • Architectures
    • Digital Libraries and Social Networks
  • Existing Semantic Digital Libraries solutions [ 20 min ]:
    • SIMILE
    • Greenstone
    • DELOS
    • BRICKS
  • Coffee break [ 30 min ]
  • Existing Semantic Digital Libraries solutions [ 60 min ]:
    • DuraSpace: FEDORA, DSpace, and Mulgara
    • JeromeDL
  • Comparison of existing solutions
  • Evaluation
  • Future of Semantic Digital Libraries

Part II - Afternoon session [1pm-4pm]

  • Hands-on session (Part I) [ 90 min ]
  • Coffee break [ 30 min ]
  • Hands-on session (Part II) [ 60 min ]
  • Conclusions, Discussion

Learning Objectives

The participants of the tutorial will learn about the main design goals and features of semantic digital libraries. They will get to know semantic web and social networking technologies, which can improve current information management and retrieval, as well as, search and browsing solutions in digital libraries. The participants will learn about 6 different approaches to building semantic digital libraries; they will also get some first practical experience with installing, configuring, and using these libraries. After the tutorial, the participants will be able to select, and use, the most appropriate solution for their needs, whether this will be a complete semantic digital library, or a single component, which can be applied to the existing infrastructure.

Abstract

The aim of this tutorial is to educate attendees on the applications of Semantic Web and Social Networking (Web 2.0) technologies in digital library systems. These technologies include metadata management, semantic search and browsing, personalized and community-aware services, and semantically empowered federations of digital libraries. The semantic digital libraries can be used in enterprise scale systems such as knowledge management systems, medical records systems, legal research systems and others will be discussed at some depth. After this tutorial, the audience will be able to start using existing semantic digital libraries and apply Semantic Web technologies to digital library systems.

We will start by defining problems in the domain of semantic digital libraries and present solutions that provide building blocks for semantic digital libraries, such as WordNet, DMoz, SKOS, CIDOC-CRM, and OAI-ORE. We will then present the architecture of existing semantic digital libraries, elaborate on resource management, search and browsing features, identity management and communication interfaces. We will discuss in detail the problems and solutions for bibliographic metadata management and interoperability, followed by a presentation of semantic search and browsing solutions, and other personalized and community-aware services.

We will present and discuss results of an evaluation of social and semantic information discovery technologies for digital libraries [http://library.deri.ie/resource/ARfuVUi8 ]. We will compare results achieved using a semantic digital library with a classic, open source library. We will show how semantic digital libraries enhance user experience in information discovery. We will analyze various user satisfaction measures gathered during the evaluation. Finally we will discuss if semantic digital library users are able to retain better the knowledge they have gained while using the system.

We will discuss the future of federations of digital libraries in the context of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Internet. Finally we will present six initiatives that adhere to the idea of a semantic digital library:

  • Greenstone [http://www.greenstone.org/], a suite of software, which use advance technologies for building and distributing digital library collections.
  • BRICKS [http://www.brickscommunity.org/] , the largest cultural heritage project in the EU 6th framework program, which applies semantic web technology for managing metadata in a European wide digital library network.
  • DELOS [http://www.delos.info/], an European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries that contributed a number of research solutions applicable to the domain do semantic digital libraries.

The tutorial will be followed by a hands-on session where participants will be able to try out existing prototypes of semantic digital libraries. We will wrap up the whole tutorial by encouraging everyone to take part in the discussion on the future of semantic digital libraries.

Tutorial at International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD 2009)

We would like to invite everyone to the 5th edition of the Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries. We will present it during the ICSD 2009 conference on September 9th, 2009.

The aim of this tutorial is to educate attendees on the applications of Semantic Web and Social Networking (Web 2.0) technologies in digital library systems. These technologies include metadata management, semantic search and browsing, personalized and community-aware services, and semantically empowered federations of digital libraries. After this tutorial and the hands-on session, the audience will be able to start using existing semantic digital libraries and apply Semantic Web technologies to digital library systems.

UPDATE: Slides from the tutorial can be found at Slideshare or in Quicktime Movie format
IMPORTANT: Please bring your laptops with you for the hands-on session. If you can, please install Java (version JDK 5 or higher)

Tutorials

It all started with a tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries at JCDL 2006. Since than we were updating and presenting this tutorial many times.

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