SOLUTIONS: Digital libraries

Digital libraries (enterprise or institution knowledge bases) contain a wide range of specific forms of domain information such as books, scientific papers, news, music, movies etc.

A generic conceptual domain model is needed applicable for all areas which are covered by the digital libraries concept.

Multi-media application example

Users look for:

  • a comfortable and intelligent access to multimedia and information about them,
  • personalization and adaptation to user's preferences,
  • sophisticated services such as similarity searching or database monitoring.

The information about user preferences can be acquired from a variety of data sources, not only from the area of multimedia.

  • combining user preferences data from different data sources and inferring new relationships between them
  • users behavior can be presented as a mind map on a geographical map, e.g.

Other areas of application: