Collaborative Semantic Annotation of Digitized Old Documents
Mohamed El Ouaazizi, Noureddine Chenfour
Journal of Information & Systems Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jism/fulltext/v2n3/3.pdf
Abstract:
Within the efforts of publishing online digital libraries, we propose in this paper a new model of a collaborative semantic annotation platform of digitized old documents, which is based on using new technologies of the Semantic Web. In our model, annotations associated with a digitized document are realized by a group of annotators interested in its documentary content to accelerate the Semantic Annotation Process. The annotations are expressed as RDF triples and stored in data repositories. These data repositories are managed by an Annotation Server. With this generic structure of annotations, the available documentary resources in the library are accessible and exploitable by various Semantic Web Agents using the same protocol and query language SPARQL, in contrast to the â€™classic librariesâ€™ where access to documentary resources is restricted by specialized web services.