Semantic Solutions for Digital Libraries Emphasizing on Semantic Web Standards and Technologies

This paper describes the emerging semantic-social concepts in digital libraries and explores the potential use of semantic web technologies.

The present study is a qualitative and analytical-explanatory one that uses Michel Foucault's theoretical (paleontological) contexts to evaluate changes in the semantic web domain.

The present study, after examining the challenges of semantic web implementation and access to semantic tools and services, demonstrates the benefits of applying standards (RDA and RDF), and thus provides a brief classification of tools and services. Semantic services are provided. In addition, a checklist has been suggested to further evaluate semantic tools, services, and projects.

Given that digital libraries will hold a huge amount of future data, As a result, the use of semantic web standards and technologies in digital libraries offers a new level of flexibility, interaction, interoperability and knowledge sharing and enhances their capabilities, so it is necessary to use from semantic web standards and tools. In semantic web a framework will be presented that every subject can be defined according to its special features, also these subjects among a net of communications have a possibility of adding a new or related meaning. Through semantic web, social semantic digital libraries will present a new level of capabilities, increasing cooperation& mutual communication, and sharing knowledge.