Good morning,

Today, a new issue of the Journal of Digital Information was published. This
is the link to the Journal:
https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/803

The Special Issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage features seven
papers jointly covering a broad spectrum of interrelated topics. Below, the
four topical categories are listed (text taken from the introduction of the
guest editors).

Best wishes,

Martha Larson
Delft University of Technology
Kate Fernie
Kate Fernie Consulting
Johan Oomen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam &
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

[1] Indexing spoken heritage collections
 
The paper entitled Towards Affordable Disclosure of Spoken Heritage Archives
<https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/687>  discusses ongoing work
aiming at affordable disclosure of real-world spoken word archives using
automatic annotation produced by speech recognition technology. The authors
describe how to provide search on such archives and flexible ways of
presenting search results.
 Next, the paper Advanced Information Access to Parliamentary Debates
<https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/668>  shows how proceedings in
PDF format can be transformed into deeply nested XML. The author also
describes five applications scenarios that exploit the availability of this
data in XML format.
 
[2] User-centered system design
 
In User needs in television archive access: Acquiring knowledge necessary
for system design <https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/685>  a
methodical approach is presented for generating thorough knowledge about
users as essential information for designing and constructing digital
information access. The approach is illustrated with an explorative study of
information need characteristics in a television broadcast context.
 
[3] Distributed architectures
 
The paper, Toward Semantic Digital Libraries: Exploiting Web 2.0 and
Semantic Services in Cultural Heritage
<https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/688>  proposes a service
oriented architecture for managing information in digital libraries. The
authors describe approaches implemented in the PIRATES framework which
enable archivists and end-users to tag content using information extraction
tools to suggest tags, thus building a structured domain knowledge base. The
lessons learned in implementing the framework in the e-Dvara digital library
to offer adaptive and personalized services are described.
 
[4] Creation and use of semantic representations
 
Three papers explicitly deal with improving metadata management by using web
standards. Metadata and Semantics in Digital Object Collections
<https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/693>  starts with a discussion
of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language
(OWL), semantic web technologies that will play major roles in future
digital libraries. The paper examines how two well-established metadata
frameworks (the CIDOC-CRM and DC) can be translated into OWL and shows how
applications can benefit from such a transition.
 In the cultural heritage world the data in question is very often a mixture
of structured database fields and related textual documents. In Putting
Hybrid Cultural Data on the Semantic Web
<https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/700> , the author describes how
relational databases and associated natural language text can be transformed
to RDF, describing the so-called txt2rdf process.
 Lastly, Extending Domain-Specific Resources to Enable Semantic Access to
Cultural Heritage Data <https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/698>
describes how focused crawling and automatic information extraction
technologies can be applied to semi-structured information sources to expand
domain resources, enabling cross-referencing of collections and thus
improving visibility and end-user information access. The authors present a
case study describing how ULAN's coverage of artists and their semantic
properties was extended using information extraction techniques, the issues
involved and the use of this domain resource in the semantic annotation of
collections to improve visibility of artists' information in Tate Online.

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