Knowledge Representation meets Digital Libraries.
Enrico Franconi · 2000
In this short paper, the basic ideas behind a project on the application of Knowledge Representation formalisms and technologies for Conceptual Modelling and Query Management are presented. It is argued that good Conceptual Modelling is required to support powerful information access through Intelligent Navigation, a fundamental task in Digital Libraries. 1 Introduction In recent years, data and knowledge base applications have progressively converged towards integrated technologies that try to overcome the limits of each single discipline. Research in Knowledge Representation (KR) originally concentrated around formalisms that are typically tuned to deal with relatively small knowledge bases, but provide powerful deduction services, and the language to structure information is highly expressive. In contrast, Information Systems and Database research mainly dealt with efficient storage and retrieval with powerful query languages, and with sharing and displaying large amounts of (m...