Organizing and integrating knowledge on the desktop with repositories
Organizing and integrating knowledge on the desktop with repositories
The institutional repository, as a collection of research knowledge, is being encouraged to integrate with the researcher's desktop environment. However, the desktop metaphor used on personal computer systems provides only limited abilities to organize an individual's information; the same is true for the digital library metaphor adopted by repositories. Neither environment provides many tools for relating its contents to external information sources. The need for automatically organizing information on the desktop to meet a user's various needs to accomplish knowledge tasks has been identified by researchers but there is still no widely-adopted solution to tackle it. Semantic web concepts are being used to organize web data into structures that enable machines to interpret and combine it easily with other information to build knowledge. In this paper we discuss the need for an organization mechanism for the desktop that will help integrate desktop data with other data from repositories and from the web, or vice versa.
Desktop, repositories, data integration
Mosweunyane, Gontlafetse
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Carr, Les
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April 2008
Mosweunyane, Gontlafetse
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Carr, Les
0572b10e-039d-46c6-bf05-57cce71d3936
Mosweunyane, Gontlafetse and Carr, Les
(2008)
Organizing and integrating knowledge on the desktop with repositories.
Open Repositories Conference 2008, , Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Abstract
The institutional repository, as a collection of research knowledge, is being encouraged to integrate with the researcher's desktop environment. However, the desktop metaphor used on personal computer systems provides only limited abilities to organize an individual's information; the same is true for the digital library metaphor adopted by repositories. Neither environment provides many tools for relating its contents to external information sources. The need for automatically organizing information on the desktop to meet a user's various needs to accomplish knowledge tasks has been identified by researchers but there is still no widely-adopted solution to tackle it. Semantic web concepts are being used to organize web data into structures that enable machines to interpret and combine it easily with other information to build knowledge. In this paper we discuss the need for an organization mechanism for the desktop that will help integrate desktop data with other data from repositories and from the web, or vice versa.
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Published date: April 2008
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Open Repositories Conference 2008, , Southampton, United Kingdom, 2008-04-01
Keywords:
Desktop, repositories, data integration
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 265395
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265395
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Gontlafetse Mosweunyane
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