A Semantic Assistant Agent for Digital Libraries

In this paper we present semantic assistant agent (SAA), an open source digital library agent which takes user query for finding information in the digital library and takes resources- metadata and stores it semantically. SAA uses Semantic Web to improve browsing and searching for resources in digital library. All metadata stored in the library are available in RDF format for querying and processing by SemanSreach which is a part of SAA architecture. The architecture includes a generic RDF-based model that represents relationships among objects and their components. Queries against these relationships are supported by an RDF triple store.

Authors:

• Mohamed Kholif
• Suaad Awad Mohamed

Keywords:

• Digital Library
• Dublin Core
• Ontology
• Semantic web.

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