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Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals (Paperback)
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Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals (Paperback)
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Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an
accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and
demonstrates their value to information professionals. More data
and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies,
formal representations of knowledge with rich semantic
relationships, have become increasingly important in the context of
today's information overload and data deluge. The publishing and
sharing of explicit explanations for a wide variety of
conceptualizations, in a machine readable format, has the power to
both improve information retrieval and discover new knowledge.
Information professionals are key contributors to the development
of new, and increasingly useful, ontologies. Practical Ontologies
for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction
to the following: defining the concept of ontologies and why they
are increasingly important to information professionals ontologies
and the semantic web existing ontologies, such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS,
and OWL2 adopting and building ontologies, showing how to avoid
repetition of work and how to build a simple ontology interrogating
ontologies for reuse the future of ontologies and the role of the
information professional in their development and use. This book
will be useful reading for information professionals in libraries
and other cultural heritage institutions who work with
digitalization projects, cataloguing and classification and
information retrieval. It will also be useful to LIS students who
are new to the field.
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