Semantic Search 2014 - Semantic Search - special issue for Aslib Proceedings

The history of semantic search - the latest techniques and technology developments in the last 1000 years
Technical approaches to semantic search : linguistic/NLP, probabilistic, artificial intelligence, conceptual/ontological
Current trends in Semantic Search, including best practice, early adopters, and cultural heritage
Usability and user experience; Visualisation; and techniques and technologies in the practice for Semantic Search
Quality criteria and Impact of norms and standardisation similar to ISO 25964 “Thesauri for information retrieval“
Cross-industry collaboration and standardisation
Practical problems in brokering consensus and agreement - defining concepts, terms and classes, etc
Curation and management of ontologies
Differences between web-scale, enterprise scale, and collection-specific scale techniques
Evaluation of Semantic Search solutions, including comparison of data collection approaches
User behaviour including evolution of norms and conventions;
Information behaviour; and Information literacy
User surveys; usage scenarios and case studies