The Documentalist Support System: a Web-Services based Tool for Semantic Annotation and Browsing
Hennie Brugman, Véronique Malaisé, Luit Gazendam, A. Th. Schreiber · 2008
Abstract. The Documentalist Support System (DocSS) is developed to suite novel needs of documentalists working within the Dutch archive for Sound and Vision, broadcasters working outside of Sound and Vision and people interested in the Cultural Heritage value of the archive, who want to perform search in context. The documentalists (and to some extent the other users mentioned) need an environment in which they can view and manipulate multiple types of information (documents and metadata), receive annotation suggestions from their controlled vocabularies, create catalogue descriptions and browse for semantically similar documents within their collection. The open architecture, the publicly published annotation format and the SKOS representation requirement for the controlled vocabularies make the generated annotations interoperable with other annotation databases and the DocSS usable for any documentalist annotating material with controlled vocabularies, for which a digital textual representation of the data exists. 1