Tecnologias para a representação descritiva na web : semântica e suas convergências com as bibliotecas digitais

Abstract

which would be impossible to find in a single informational environment. In the current scenario it is possible to identify the development of content in digital formats and the need to recover them efficiently is a constant. Some initiatives are created to establish technologies that allow the representation and description of data, in order to enhance recovery. The digital libraries that are considered collaborative environments are pointed out as an alternative for the construction of the Semantic Web. We aim to study the initial layers of the Semantic Web structure, where descriptive forms, languages ​​and metadata patterns are concentrated to evaluate the similarities and the possibility of implantation or aggregation to those already existent in the development of digital libraries. The methodology is characterized by being an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the topic, using the method of bibliographical and documentary research, studying the main concepts related to the research theme, such as Digital Libraries, Semantic Web, Descriptive Representation and Metadata, in scientific literature from the areas of Information Science, Library Science and Computer Science, in order to verify the computational and informational technologies that underpin the digital libraries in Semantic Web construction. Thus, it is possible to identify that there is a synergy between digital libraries and Semantic Web, since the former contributes with its standardized environment, based on Library methodologies such as descriptive representation; the second offers semantic computational technologies the possibility of enhancing the services offered by digital libraries, enhancing the search and adding more semantics to the information resources, facilitating the retrieval by the computational agents and presenting consistent and meaningful information to the end user.