An ideal model for an information system for fiction and its application: Kirjasampo and Semantic Web
TL;DR: A new way had to be found to produce, save, process and present fiction‐related metadata in the model introduced by Jarmo Saarti, which consists of several components not found in present library information systems and cannot be implemented by them.
Abstract: Purpose – Library Director Jarmo Saarti introduced a wide or ideal model for fiction in literature in his dissertation, published in 1999. It introduces those aspects that should be included in an information system for fiction. Such aspects include literary prose and its intertextual references to other works, the writer, readers' and critics' receptions of the work as well as a researcher's view. It is also important to note how libraries approach a literary work by means of inventory, classification and content description. The most ambiguous of the aspects relates to that context in cultural history, which the work reflects and is a part of. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach – Since the model consists of several components which are not found in present library information systems and cannot be implemented by them, a new way had to be found to produce, save, process and present fiction‐related metadata. The Semantic Computing Research Group of Aalto University has deve...
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TL;DR: The problems of converting legacy data into linked data, as well as the challenge of making the massively heterogeneous yet interlinked cultural heritage content interoperable on a semantic level are discussed.
Abstract: This paper presents the CultureSampo system from the viewpoint of publishing heterogeneous linked data as a service. Discussed are the problems of converting legacy data into linked data, as well as the challenge of making the massively heterogeneous yet interlinked cultural heritage content interoperable on a semantic level. In the approach described, the data is published not only for human use, but also as intelligent services for other computer systems that can then provide interfaces of their own for the linked data. As a concrete use case of using CultureSampo as a service, the BookSampo system for publishing Finnish fiction literature on the semantic web is presented.
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TL;DR: A five-dimension categorization of interest criteria is presented based on fiction readers’ interpretations of the influential factors in fiction book selection in different search tasks and revealed that readers apply the identified interest criteria in a flexible and multiphase way depending to the search task and the system used.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate fiction readers’ interest criteria when selecting novels in library catalogs for various search tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The data of the book selection behavior from 80 genuine fiction readers were collected using recorded interviews and conversations. The data were qualitatively analyzed. Reuter’s categorization of the components of aesthetic relevance has contributed to the construction of interest dimensions. Findings – A five-dimension categorization of interest criteria is presented based on fiction readers’ interpretations of the influential factors in fiction book selection in different search tasks. The findings revealed that readers apply the identified interest criteria in a flexible and multiphase way depending to the search task and the system used. The findings showed a context-related pattern in readers’ fiction book selections. A combination of readers’ search capacities, “behind the eyes” knowledge, affective factors and a w...
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...In Sampo, the associations and similarities between the works of literature are realized by semantic web technologies such as the ontologization of the fiction thesaurus Kaunokki, which is used for fiction indexing in Sampo (Hypén and Mäkelä, 2011)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic literature review of case studies of linked data implementation projects in the cultural heritage sector is presented, where the authors reflect on the parties involved, the level of collaboration, and the motivation behind these projects.
Abstract: The cultural heritage sector has traditionally been concerned with sharing resources and furthering human knowledge, with particular interest to the issues associated with metadata and interoperability, especially when it comes to the use of technology. These goals and interests in the cultural heritage sector are natural alignments with those of linked data; hence. there has been an increasing interest in the application of linked data in this sector. This article studies the implementation of linked data in the cultural heritage sector, through a systematic literature review of case studies of linked data implementation projects in this sector. The results reflect on the parties involved, the level of collaboration, and the motivation behind these projects. The study suggests that universities and national institutions were the main players in implementing such technologies in the cultural heritage sector, suggesting that there may be some barriers preventing smaller GLAM institutions from implementing linked data projects. The results further suggest that many linked data projects in this sector were primarily exploratory projects, and often performed in a collaborative manner. They further indicate that the most common motivating factors behind these projects were research needs, a desire to contribute to linked data as a movement, and other specific user needs. Reflecting on this systematic literature review, this article makes a set of recommendations for future work to increase the use of linked data in the cultural heritage sector and to remove barriers to adoption.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the topic of fiction classification and defined the field, its schemes, objectivity, aboutness, and shelf classifi ciency, discussing fiction classification, its scheme, and its schemes.
Abstract: This article explores the topic of fiction classification. The first section attempts to define the field, discussing fiction classification, its schemes, objectivity, aboutness, and shelf classifi...
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TL;DR: Browsing task type was associated to readers' document viewing behavior in terms of observed search result pages, opened book pages and dwell time on book pages, and Logistic regression analysis yielded that the most significant predictors of higher document value were the number of observedSearch result pages and opening book pages.
Abstract: We compared fiction readers' search actions during various query reformulation intervals. We aimed to understand how readers' search actions differed between successful and unsuccessful QRIs and which search actions predicted the selecting of very interesting novels compared to less interesting ones. We conducted a controlled user study with 80 participants searching for interesting novels. Three types of browsing tasks and two types of catalogs were used. Our results demonstrated that browsing task type was associated to readers' document viewing behavior in terms of observed search result pages, opened book pages and dwell time on book pages. When browsing for topical novels, most effort was required to select somewhat interesting novels. When browsing for good novels, most effort was required to select very interesting ones. Logistic regression analysis yielded that the most significant predictors of higher document value were the number of observed search result pages and opened book pages.
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...In Sampo, the associations and similarities between the works of literature are realized by semantic web technologies such as the ontologization of the fiction thesaurus Kaunokki, which is used for fiction indexing in Sampo [7]....
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TL;DR: The authors describe progress to date in publishing Linked Data on the Web, review applications that have been developed to exploit the Web of Data, and map out a research agenda for the Linked data community as it moves forward.
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TL;DR: This paper focuses on CultureSampo’s search, recommendation, and visualization services for the end-users and the key idea here is to access cultural heritage on the Semantic Web through nine “thematic perspectives”, such as places on the maps, the social network of cultural persons, timelines, and narrative texts.
Abstract: We present an overview of CultureSampo, an ambitious system for creating a collective semantic memory of the cultural heritage of a nation on the Semantic Web 2.0, combining ideas underlying the Semantic Web and the Web 2.0. The system addresses the semantic web challenge of aggregating highly heterogeneous, cross-domain cultural heritage collections and other contents into a semantically rich intelligent system for human and machine users. At the same time, CultureSampo is an approach to solve the social and practical Web 2.0 challenge of organizing the underlying collaborative ontology development and content creation work of memory organizations and citizens. This paper focuses on CultureSampo’s search, recommendation, and visualization services for the end-users. The key idea here is to access cultural heritage on the Semantic Web through nine “thematic perspectives”, such as places on the maps, the social network of cultural persons, timelines, and narrative texts, e.g. biographies and literary works.
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...The project was also given free English and Swedish translations of keywords and, for example, coordinate data about places where events in books take place, from the jointly linked glossary and ontology cluster of the FinnONTO-ontology infrastructure ( Hyvonen et al. , 2007...
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TL;DR: SAHA 3 is a combination of a user-friendly interface and rich editing tools, that are able to utilize external ONKI ontology repositories as services, integrated with a faceted portal engine HAKO, by which the metadata can be published instantly as a semantic faceted portals.
Abstract: This paper presents a generic RDF metadata editor SAHA 3 for collaborative content creation and instant semantic content publishing on the Semantic Web. SAHA 3 is a combination of a user-friendly interface and rich editing tools, that are able to utilize external ONKI ontology repositories as services. The system is integrated with a faceted portal engine HAKO, by which the metadata can be published instantly as a semantic faceted portal. Using the SAHA-ONKI-HAKO integrated system, a semantic portal can be created very easily by end-users by defining metadata schemas and related vocabularies, by annotating content, and by interactively configuring the user interfaces of the editor and the search engine. The system is in use in several semantic web applications and scales up to hundreds of thousands content objects.
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01 Jun 2010
TL;DR: The challenges works of fiction present in the information management and retrieval context and the need to develop fiction indexing tools suitable for web-based services are discussed, and how Kaunokki - the Finnish fiction thesaurus - is helping to meet these challenges.
Abstract: Jarmo Saarti and Kaisa Hypen look briefly at pre-computer age fiction retrieval methods. They discuss the challenges works of fiction present in the information management and retrieval context and the need to develop fiction indexing tools suitable for web-based services, and describe how the creation of Kaunokki - the Finnish fiction thesaurus - in 1996, and its development into the Kirjasampo-SAHA web service for readers and librarians, are helping to meet these challenges.
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