Content and knowledge management in a digital library and museum

This article discusses the design of a digital library that addresses both content and knowledge management. The design of the digital library feature s two major distinctions: (1) the system incorporates a two-tier repository system to facilitate content management, and (2) the system incorporates a n object-oriented model to facilitate the management of temporal informatio n and exploits information extraction and deductive inference to derive imp lied knowledge based on the content of the digital library. The two-tier re pository system relieves the system manager from manually maintaining the h yperlinks among the Web pages, when the digital library content is updated. The task of maintaining hyperlinks among Web pages can become cumbersome t o the system manager if there are a large number of Web pages and hyperlink s. With respect to knowledge management, this design aims at facilitating t emporal information management and deriving implied relations among the obj ects in the digital library. The motivation behind developing these knowled ge processing utilities is to create a system that complements the capabili ties of human beings. Deriving a comprehensive list of implied relations is an exhausting task if the digital library contains a great amount of infor mation and the number of implied relations is great. With such knowledge-pr ocessing utilities, specialists are released from performing tedious work a nd can, therefore, spend more time with more productive philosophical activ ities to derive advanced knowledge. Applying knowledge management utilities effectively can extend the applications of digital libraries to new dimens ions.