scholarly journals BUILDING ONTOLOGIES OVER RELATIONAL DATABASES

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 254-265
Author(s):  
Damitha D Karunaratna
Keyword(s):  
Relational Databases ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The World ◽  
Access Data ◽  
Relational Data Bases

Relational Databases are typically created to fulfil the information requirements of a community of users generally belongs to a single organization. Data stored in these databases were typically accessed by using Structured Query Languages or through customized interfaces.  With the popularity of the World Wide Web and the availability of large number of Relational Databases for public access there is a need for users to retrieve data from these databases by using a text-based queries, possibly by using the terms that they are familiar with. However, the inherent limitations of Structured Query Languages used to create and access data in relational Data Bases does not allow uses to access data by using text-based queries. Also, the terms used in queries should be limited to those used during the construction of the databases. This paper proposes an architecture to generated ontologies over relation databases and show how they could be enhanced semantically by using available domain-specific or top-level ontologies so that the data managed by the DBs can be accessed by using text-based queries. The feasibility of the proposed architecture was demonstrated by building a prototype system over a sample MySQL database.

scholarly journals Public Access Technologies in Public Libraries: Effects and Implications

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carlo Bertot
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access Technology ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Services

<span>Public libraries were early adopters of Internet-based technologies and have provided public access to the Internet and computers since the early 1990s. The landscape of public-access Internet and computing was substantially different in the 1990s as the World Wide Web was only in its initial development. At that time, public libraries essentially experimented with publicaccess Internet and computer services, largely absorbing this service into existing service and resource provision without substantial consideration of the management, facilities, staffing, and other implications of public-access technology (PAT) services and resources. This article explores the implications for public libraries of the provision of PAT and seeks to look further to review issues and practices associated with PAT provision resources. While much research focuses on the amount of public access that </span><span>public libraries provide, little offers a view of the effect of public access on libraries. This article provides insights into some of the costs, issues, and challenges associated with public access and concludes with recommendations that require continued exploration.</span>

scholarly journals Geographic Information Retrieval and the World Wide Web: A Match Made in Electronic Space

1997 ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Johnson ◽  
Myke Gluck
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
The World

This article looks at the access to geographic information through a review of information science theory and its application to the WWW. The two most common retrieval systems are information and data retrieval. A retrieval system has seven elements: retrieval models, indexing, match and retrieval, relevance, order, query languages and query specification. The goal of information retrieval is to match the user's needs to the information that is in the system. Retrieval of geographic information is a combination of both information and data retrieval. Aids to effective retrieval of geographic information are: query languages that employ icons and natural language, automatic indexing of geographic information, and standardization of geographic information. One area that has seen an explosion of geographic information retrieval systems (GIR's) is the World Wide Web (WWW). The final section of this article discusses how seven WWW GIR's solve the the problem of matching the user's information needs to the information in the system.

scholarly journals Accessing relational databases from the World Wide Web

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tam Nguyen ◽  
V. Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World

Retrieving information on the World Wide Web: effects of domain specific knowledge

AI & Society ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asako Miura ◽  
Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽  
Koji Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The World ◽  
Domain Specific Knowledge

Education, the Internet, and the World Wide Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 1417-1421
Author(s):  
John F. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Transmission Control Protocol ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Packet Networks ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Transmission Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Access Data ◽  
Initial Concept

The development of the Internet has a relatively brief and well-documented history (Cerf, 2001; Griffiths, 2001; Leiner et al., 2000; Tyson, 2002). The initial concept was first mooted in the early 1960s. American computer specialists visualized the creation of a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone quickly could access data and programs from any node, or place, in the world. In the early 1970s, a research project initiated by the United States Department of Defense investigated techniques and technologies to interlink packet networks of various kinds. This was called the Internetting project, and the system of connected networks that emerged from the project was known as the Internet. The initial networks created were purpose-built (i.e., they were intended for and largely restricted to closed specialist communities of research scholars). However, other scholars, other government departments, and the commercial sector realized the system of protocols developed during this research (Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], collectively known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite) had the potential to revolutionize data and program sharing in all parts of the community. A flurry of activity, beginning with the National Science Foundation (NSF) network NSFNET in 1986, over the last two decades of the 20th century created the Internet as we know it today. In essence, the Internet is a collection of computers joined together with cables and connectors following standard communication protocols.

Education, the Internet, and the World Wide Web

2006 ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Transmission Control Protocol ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Packet Networks ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Transmission Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Access Data ◽  
Initial Concept

The development of the Internet has a relatively brief and well-documented history (Cerf, 2001; Griffiths, 2001; Leiner et al., 2000; Tyson, 2002). The initial concept was first mooted in the early 1960s. American computer specialists visualized the creation of a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone quickly could access data and programs from any node, or place, in the world. In the early 1970s, a research project initiated by the United States Department of Defense investigated techniques and technologies to interlink packet networks of various kinds. This was called the Internetting project, and the system of connected networks that emerged from the project was known as the Internet. The initial networks created were purpose-built (i.e., they were intended for and largely restricted to closed specialist communities of research scholars). However, other scholars, other government departments, and the commercial sector realized the system of protocols developed during this research (Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], collectively known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite) had the potential to revolutionize data and program sharing in all parts of the community. A flurry of activity, beginning with the National Science Foundation (NSF) network NSFNET in 1986, over the last two decades of the 20th century created the Internet as we know it today. In essence, the Internet is a collection of computers joined together with cables and connectors following standard communication protocols.

scholarly journals Is the Myth of Left-Wing Authoritarianism Itself a Myth?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian Gideon Conway ◽  
Alivia Zubrod ◽  
Linus Chan ◽  
James McFarland ◽  
Evert Van de Vliert
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Attitude Strength ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Is left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) closer to a myth or a reality? Twelve studies test the empirical existence and theoretical relevance of LWA. Study 1 reveals that both conservative and liberal Americans identify a large number of left-wing authoritarians in their lives. In Study 2, participants explicitly rate items from a recently-developed LWA measure as valid measurements of authoritarianism. Studies 3-11 show that persons who score high on this same LWA scale possess the traits associated with models of authoritarianism (while controlling for political ideology): LWA is positively related to threat sensitivity across multiple areas, including general ecological threats (Study 3), COVID disease threat (Study 4), Belief in a Dangerous World (Study 5), and Trump threat (Study 6). Further, controlling for ideology, high-LWA persons show more support for restrictive political correctness norms (Study 7), rate African-Americans and Jews more negatively (Studies 8-9), and show more domain-specific dogmatism and attitude strength (Study 10). Study 11 reveals that the majority of the effects from Studies 3-10 hold when looking only within liberals, thus revealing these effects are about liberal authoritarianism. Study 12 uses the World Values Survey to provide evidence of Left-Wing Authoritarianism around the globe. Taken in total, this large array of triangulating evidence from 12 studies comprised of over 8,000 participants from the U.S. and over 66,000 participants world-wide strongly suggests that left-wing authoritarianism is much closer to a reality than a myth.

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