The Internet is going through several major changes. It has become a vehicle of Web services rather than just a repository of information. Many organizations are putting their cor...
The proliferation of digital libraries and the large amount of existing documents raise important issues in efficient handling of documents. Printed texts in documents need to be...
Metadata attempts to describe the content, format, purpose and structure of data. Over the past few years, the IEEE-LOM standard has dominated the metadata world in e-learning app...
Software engineering focuses on producing quality software products through quality processes. The attention to processes dates back to the early 70’s, when software engineers r...
The semantic annotation of documents is an additional advantage for retrieval, as long as the annotations and their maintenance process scale well. Automatic or semi-automatic ann...