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 SystemChen, Hsinchun, J. Martinez, T. D. Ng, and B. R. Schatz 
• 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.  
• NKOS, Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
• 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.

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

Misc

• For standards see W3
• COS  Community of Science