Semantic Web Techgnologies in Digital Libraries

Digital libraries have been an important source of information throughout the history of mankind. Notably, semantic web has given a marvellous change to the traditional libraries and presently took the shape of semantic digital libraries which can be accessed at any time with more meaningful search. This paper explores the Semantic Web and the technologies that support the functioning of digital libraries including RDF, OWL and ontologies. Semantic Web technologies are considered from the perspective of digital libraries, and how Semantic Web technologies can enhance the functioning of digital libraries. A current research has been reviewed on the use of semantic web technologies in digital libraries and a vision on future trends of digital library have been proposed.