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Truth in the Digital Library: From Ontological to Hermeneutical Systems

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This paper deals with the conceptual structures which describe document contents in a digital library. Indeed, the underlying question is about the truth of a description: obvious (ontological), by convention (normative) or based on interpretation (hermeneutical). In the first part, we examine the differences between these three points of view and choose the hermeneutical one. Then in the second and third part, we present two “assisted interpretation systems”. (AIS) for digital libraries (audiovisual documents and scholarly publications). Both provide a dynamic annotation framework for readers’ augmentations and social interactions. In the fourth part, a few synthetic guidelines are given to design such “assisted interpretation systems” in other digital libraries.

Keywords

  • Interpretation
  • collaboration
  • annotation
  • ontology
  • graphs
  • interactive information retrieval
  • assisted interpretation systems

The authors are truly indebted to Phyllis Graham for her help with the English manuscript.

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Bénel, A. et al. (2001). Truth in the Digital Library: From Ontological to Hermeneutical Systems. In: Constantopoulos, P., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44796-2_31

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