ScholOnto: an ontology-based digital library server for research documents and discourse

The internet is rapidly becoming the first place for researchers to publish documents, but at present they receive little support in searching, tracking, analyzing or debating concepts in a literature from scholarly perspectives. This paper describes the design rationale and implementation of ScholOnto, an ontology-based digital library server to support scholarly interpretation and discourse. It enables researchers to describe and debate via a semantic network the contributions a document makes, and its relationship to the literature. The paper discusses the computational services that an ontology-based server supports, alternative user interfaces to support interaction with a large semantic network, usability issues associated with knowledge formalization, new work practices that could emerge, and related work. 

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: JODL
• Authors: Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
• Keywords: JODL 2000, Large Semantic Network, Ontology-based Digital Library, Semantic Network