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Author:   Jane Greenberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) ,  Eva Méndez Rodriguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780789035912

ISBN 10:   078903591
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   09 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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About the Authors Introduction: Toward a More Library-Like Web via Semantic Knitting (Jane Greenberg and Eva Méndez) PART I: SEMANTIC WEB FOUNDATIONS, STANDARDS, AND TOOLS The Birth of the New Web: A Foucauldian Reading of the Semantic Web (D. Grant Campbell) Library Cards for the 21st Century (Charles McCathieNevile and Eva Méndez) Library of Congress Controlled Vocabularies and Their Application to the Semantic Web (Corey A. Harper and Barbara B. Tillett) SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web (Alistair Miles and José R. Pérez-Agüera) Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web (Joseph T. Tennis) Roles for Semantic Technologies and Tools in Libraries (G. Philip Rogers) PART II: SEMANTIC WEB PROJECTS AND PERSPECTIVES RDF Database for PhysNet and Similar Portals (Thomas Severiens and Christian Thiemann) Biomedicine and the Semantic Web: A Knowledge Model for Visual Phenotype (John Michon) Towards an Infrastructure for Semantic Applications: Methodologies for Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Resources (Anita C. Liang, Gauri Salokhe, Margherita Sini, and Johannes Keizer) FOAF: Connecting People on the Semantic Web (Mike Graves, Adam Constabaris, and Dan Brickley) Advancing the Semantic Web via Library Functions (Jane Greenberg) Social Bibliography: A Personal Perspective on Libraries and the Semantic Web (Stuart L. Weibel) Index Reference Notes Included

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Jane Greenberg, PhD, MS, is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Director of the SILS Metadata Research Center, and was recently awarded a Frances Carroll McColl Professorship. She is the Principal Investigator of the Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios project. She is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board and a co-chair of the DCMI Tools Working Group. She regularly serves on national and international digital information and metadata conference program committees, and was program co-chair of the Dublin Core 2003 conference. Dr. Greenberg was the Principal Investigator of the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project and the Metadata Generation Research (MGR), collectively sponsored by Microsoft Research, OCLC Online Computer Center, and the Library of Congress. Eva Mendez Rodriguez, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid, where she has been teaching and conducting research since March 1997. She is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board, and served as co-chair of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (Vocabularies in Practice) held in Madrid in 2005. Her research focuses on Semantic Web technologies applied to digital information systems and services, with an emphasis on metadata standards and vocabularies. In addition to the DCMI, Dr. Mendez has served on many conference and workshop program committees worldwide. She has also served as an advisor on information practice and policy for countries in the European Union and Latin America. Dr. Mendez was Fulbright-EU Research Scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science, Metadata Research Center, during the academic year 2005--2006.

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