Konkretes zur These, die Standardisierung von der Heterogenität her zu denken

Prospective developments in the area of scientific information are specialized innovative and integrative portals which are collectively accessible through one scientific gateway and bring together the basic interdisciplinary access paths in libraries with subject-based gateways. Within this structure the customer has access to scientific information (bibliographic citations, references to experts and research programs, online texts, materials, data, facts, lists of links, etc.) via high quality search and select tools. Both theory-based analyses and state-of-the-art reports of the information scene as well as the findings of newer user surveys regarding information-seeking behavior and information needs among scientists indicate that such a development is desirable. Today there is a broad consensus about what goals are to be achieved. The challenge for further developments lies not in finding acceptance for these goals, but in deciding how they are to be achieved. This paper discusses the development of bi-lateral transfer components for the treatment of heterogeneous semantics among document collections with different descriptive cataloguing styles and presents a viable solution for an essential portion of the question as to how this goal can be achieved. The paper reports on theoretical and practical aspects, describes the current state of developments and presents specific instances for application.