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The Specification of the Language of the Field and Interoperability: Cross-language Access to Catalogues and Online Libraries (CACAO)

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Abstract

The European Union is linguistically diverse, with 23 official languages and 56% of its citizens who are able to converse in a language other than their mother tongue. However, European libraries do not share a subject heading or classification system or a bibliographic format. Thus, cross-language access to library collections is a complex problem involving not only parsing and translation, but also mapping subject headings, classifications and bibliographic formats, i.e. syntactic and semantic interoperability. The CACAO project (Cross-language Access to Catalogues and Online Libraries) will implement the following vision. A user enters a monolingual query, e.g. English cat, and retrieves relevant records containing, e.g., the German word for cat, Katze, French chat, or Italian gatto. CACAO will thereby refine and extend an implementation at the Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

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Barbara Levergood
Goettingen State and University Library,
Stefan Farrenkopf
Goettingen State and University Library,
Elisabeth Frasnelli
Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,

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Levergood, B., Farrenkopf, S., & Frasnelli, E. (2008). The Specification of the Language of the Field and  Interoperability: Cross-language Access to Catalogues and Online Libraries (CACAO). International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2008. https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952109327

DOI : 10.23106/dcmi.952109327

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