ontologies and digital libraries
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This is a presentation I did for my Knowledge Organization class at Pratt SILS.TRANSCRIPT
“How are ontologies used in digital libraries?”
Nicholas C Jackson
Ontology- “A ontology is a controlled vocabulary expressed in an ontology representation language.” *(Jernst, 1-2).
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