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Organizing open archives via lightweight ontologies to facilitate the use of heterogeneous collections

J. Alfredo Sánchez (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, San Andrés Choulula Puebla, Puebla, Mexico)
María Auxilio Medina (Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Cholula, Mexico)
Oleg Starostenko (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Cholula, Mexico)
Antonio Benitez (Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Cholula, Mexico)
Eduardo López Domínguez (Universidad Politécnica de Puebla, Cholula, Mexico)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 13 January 2012

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper seeks to focus on the problems of integrating information from open, distributed scholarly collections, and on the opportunities these collections represent for research communities in developing countries. The paper aims to introduce OntOAIr, a semi‐automatic method for constructing lightweight ontologies of documents in repositories such as those provided by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).

Design/methodology/approach

OntOAIr uses simplified document representations, a clustering algorithm, and ontological engineering techniques.

Findings

The paper presents experimental results of the potential positive impact of ontologies and specifically of OntOAIr on the use of collections provided by OAI.

Research limitations/implications

By applying OntOAIr, scholars who frequently spend many hours organizing OAI information spaces will obtain support that will allow them to speed up the entire research cycle and, expectedly, participate more fully in global research communities.

Originality/value

The proposed method allows human and software agents to organize and retrieve groups of documents from multiple collections. Applications of OntOAIr include enhanced document retrieval. In this paper, the authors focus particularly on document retrieval applications.

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Citation

Alfredo Sánchez, J., Auxilio Medina, M., Starostenko, O., Benitez, A. and López Domínguez, E. (2012), "Organizing open archives via lightweight ontologies to facilitate the use of heterogeneous collections", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 64 No. 1, pp. 46-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211196701

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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