Christopher A Welty 1998

Abstract:  Introduction We are working on several aspects of using description logics for digital libraries. Our main goal is to enable robust retrieval of information stored in a digital library. We have found that the use of description logics has also served to assist in ensuring the integrity of the data. In addtion, the recent release of XML has made us aware of an enormous opportunity to leverage description logic technology, in reality against the widely recognized problems with web searching. The three main thrusts of the project are: 1. Developing an ontology for card catalog data, traditionally known as meta-data, including a browsable and queryable hierarchy of subject classifications, similar to, yet substatially deeper and more complex than, the taxonomies which exist today. [1] 2. Developing techniques for representing mark up elements (or tags) specified in an SGML or XML DTD, and instantiating those representations on fully marked-up texts.[2