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- Title
OntoPhoto and the Role of Ontology in Organizing Knowledge.
- Authors
Benson, Allen C.
- Abstract
This article is concerned with ontology and its applications in Knowledge Organization (KO) activities. Connections are drawn between efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) to capture the meaning of information and make it accessible to machines and the efforts made in libraries to use KO tools in machine-based record building and search and retrieval systems. The practices used in AI that are of interest here include ontology and ontology-based knowledge representation. In this article their applications in KO are directed towards a particularly problematic document type—the photograph. There are two arguments motivating this article. First, ontology-based KO systems that join AI techniques with library cataloging practices make it possible to utilize higher levels of expressivity when describing photographs. Second, KO systems for photographs that are capable of reasoning over concepts and relationships can potentially provide richer, more relevant search results than systems utilizing word-matching alone.
- Subjects
INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; ONTOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHS; CATALOGING of pictures; LIBRARIANS
- Publication
Knowledge Organization, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0943-7444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0943-7444-2011-2-79