CERIF Task Group

Reference material

 

Thesaurus
Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping  Martin Doerr
Vocabulary as a Central Concept in Library and Information Science Michael Buckland
Augmenting Thesaurus Relationships: Possibilities for Retrieval Douglas Tudhope, Harith Alani and Christopher Jones
A Concept Space Approach to Addressing the Vocabulary Problem in Scientific
Information Retrieval: An Experiment on the Worm Community System
Chen, Hsinchun, J. Martinez, T. D. Ng, and B. R. Schatz 
NKOS, Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
Conceptual relationships for encoding thesauri, classification systems and organised metadata collections and a proposal for encoding a core set of thesaurus relationships using an
RDF Schema
. Cross, P., Brickley, D. and Koch, T.  
ISO 2788-1986 (1986) Documentation - Guidelines for the establishment and
development of monolingual thesauri,
International Organization for Standardization, Ref. No ISO 2788-1986 EBTI: (European Binding Tariff Information)
OASIS, Otlet's Adaptive Search Information Service, honors Paul Otlet, a pioneer of Information Management. A program of exploration of information selection: searching, filtering, retrieval, and especially adaptive searching using multiple computers and multiple sources in a networked environment.

Metadata
Mapping Entry Vocabulary to Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabulary
Multilingual Metadata to access Social Science Data Brian Matthews and Michael Wilson
Metadata: An Overview and some Issues  Keith G Jeffery
Tools and Techniques for Digital Libraries  Jacques Ducloy
MetaNet - A Metadata Term Thesaurus to Enable 
Semantic Interoperability Between Metadata Domains
The SCHEMAS Project provides a forum for metadata schema designers involved in projects under the IST Programme and national initiatives in Europe.
 The concept of application profiles. Links to articles   1,   2,   3
Background about GRIDs, cut from the ERGO BBS
ERCIM news (April 2001) Special theme: GRIDS: e-Science to e-Business

The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities
Research Summary - XML Adoption: Benefits & Challenges
Issues
for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age

Search engines   
Collexis is  free of charge for non-profit organisations and they have a cris application, see  SHARED (Scientists for Health And REsearch for Development ) and  WOTRO
Scirus
  for scientific information used by Elsevier.
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Data model
ERGO Final report  (1996)
ERGO Final report: Details of proposal, 2++  (1996)   html
CERIF report (1999)
A lot of background material can also be found on the CERIF page

For standards see W3

COS  Community of Science

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