Integration of digital repositories through federated queries using semantic technologies

Currently, institutions store the information that they produce in digital repositories, especially those within the academic scope, such as universities and libraries. However, the lack of agreement in defining protocols, meta-data descriptions and technologies for publication has caused issues whi...

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Autores: Segarra, J, Espinoza Mejía, Jorge Mauricio, Ortiz Segarra, Jose Ignacio, Saquicela Galarza, Víctor Hugo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad de Cuenca
Repositorio:Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec:123456789/29052
Acceso en línea:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013979018&doi=10.1109%2fCLEI.2016.7833406&partnerID=40&md5=df0e9bd7f41b37635654485d36d6821d
http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/29052
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Digital Repositories
Ecuadorian Universities
Federated Queries
Linked Data
Sparql
Virtual Integration
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Sumario:Currently, institutions store the information that they produce in digital repositories, especially those within the academic scope, such as universities and libraries. However, the lack of agreement in defining protocols, meta-data descriptions and technologies for publication has caused issues while trying to integrate repositories. Numerous alternatives have been proposed to tackle this problem, however, most of them are based on syntactical technologies, which are exclusive to the ambit of digital repositories, hampering a higher level integration(Web). In addition, much of the research done so far uses centralized approaches, which are hardly scalable and can threaten to inter-institutional independence. In this work a new distributed integration architecture is proposed, which is based on semantic technologies and federated queries. This architecture has been successfully tested to integrate a group of institutional repositories belonging to universities, demonstrating its applicability within this context.