TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing scholarly use of digital libraries
T2 - 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2016
AU - Jett, Jacob
AU - Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi
AU - Cole, Timothy W.
AU - Page, Kevin R.
AU - Downie, J. Stephen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is engaged in the development of tools that will give scholars the ability to analyze the HathiTrust digital library's 14 million volume corpus. A cornerstone of the HTRC's digital infrastructure is the workset - a kind of scholar-built research collection intended for use with the HTRC's analytics platform. Because more than 66% of the digital corpus is subject to copyright restrictions, scholarly users remain dependent upon the descriptive accounts provided by traditional metadata records in order to identify and gather together bibliographic resources for analysis. This paper compares the MADSRDF/MODSRDF, Bibframe, schema.org, BIBO, and FaBiO ontologies by assessing their suitability for employment by the HTRC to meet scholars' needs. These include distinguishing among multiple versions of the same work; representing the complex historical and physical relationships among those versions; and identifying and providing access to finer grained bibliographic entities, e.g., poems, chapters, sections, and even smaller segments of content.
AB - The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is engaged in the development of tools that will give scholars the ability to analyze the HathiTrust digital library's 14 million volume corpus. A cornerstone of the HTRC's digital infrastructure is the workset - a kind of scholar-built research collection intended for use with the HTRC's analytics platform. Because more than 66% of the digital corpus is subject to copyright restrictions, scholarly users remain dependent upon the descriptive accounts provided by traditional metadata records in order to identify and gather together bibliographic resources for analysis. This paper compares the MADSRDF/MODSRDF, Bibframe, schema.org, BIBO, and FaBiO ontologies by assessing their suitability for employment by the HTRC to meet scholars' needs. These include distinguishing among multiple versions of the same work; representing the complex historical and physical relationships among those versions; and identifying and providing access to finer grained bibliographic entities, e.g., poems, chapters, sections, and even smaller segments of content.
KW - Digital libraries
KW - bibliographic metadata
KW - ontologies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84989940015&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2910896.2910903
DO - 10.1145/2910896.2910903
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
SP - 35
EP - 44
BT - JCDL 2016 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 June 2016 through 23 June 2016
ER -