DERI – DIGITAL ENTERPRISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

J EROME DL 2.0.1 U SER G UIDE

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Mariusz Cygan,

Ewelina Kruk, Sławomir Grzonkowski, Tomasz Woroniecki

DERI E LITE P ROJECT D ELIVERABLE 1.1.02

M ARCH 2, 2007

DERI Galway
IDA Business Park
Lower Dangan
Galway
IRELAND
http://www.deri.ie

DERI – DIGITAL ENTERPRISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

 DERI E LITE D ELIVERABLE
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D ELIVERABLE 1.1.02, M ARCH 2, 2007

J EROME DL 2.0.1 U SER G UIDE

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Mariusz Cygan, Ewelina Kruk,

Sławomir Grzonkowski, Tomasz Woroniecki1 ,

Introduction. JeromeDL is a Social Semantic Digital Library. As a digital library, it allows institu-
tions to easily publish documents on the Web. It supports a variety of document formats; it allows
to store and query a rich bibliographic description of each document.
To find relevant documents in JeromeDL users can use searching and browsing features. Whole
documents content can be searched through, as well as single fields of the documents description,
like author or publish year. Users can also find documents by browsing content of subject categories
and keywords
With JeromeDL’s social and semantic services every library user can bookmark interesting books,
articles or other materials in semantically annotated directories. Users can allow others to see their
bookmarks and annotations and share their knowledge within a social network. JeromeDL can also
treat a single library resource as a blog post. Users can comment the content of the resource and
reply to others’ comments and this way create new knowledge.
This document will guide the user through the installation process and all administration tasks for
librarians. It will also present the most important features for the end users.

Keywords: digital library, semantic web, user guide

1
Digital Enterprise Research Institute Galway, National University of Ireland Galway
IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland E-mail: firstname.lastname@deri.org
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by Enterprise Ireland under Grant No. *ILP/05/203*. The
authors would like to acknowledge Stefan Decker, Bill McDaniel, Corrib Group, the DERI Galway for fruitful
discussions.
c 2007 by the authors
Copyright °
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 I

Contents
1 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - Installation 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Altering Look and Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 SMTP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 Aggregation Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5 HyperCuP Lightweight Implementation in JeromeDL - User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5.2 HyperCuP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.6 RDF Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.7 Paths, URL, etc. - Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.8 Running JeromeDL on Different Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.9 Building JeromeDL from Source Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.10 JeromeDL Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.11 Guide for upgrading JeromeDL 2.0 to version 2.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - User Guide 10

2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Registering to the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Searching for Resources in JeromeDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4 Browsing Digital Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.5 Reading Resources in JeromeDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.6 Sharing Knowledge with Community Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.7 Access to Meta-data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.8 JeromeDL Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - Librarians Guide 32

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.2 Becoming Admin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.3 Uploading Resources to JeromeDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.4 Approving publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.5 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 1

1 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - Installation

1.1 Introduction
Unless you are going to start using JeromeDL in production stage, which will make us all happy, you
probably do not need to read any of these configuration details.
Good news - JeromeDL runs out of the box. You do not have to make any configuration changes if you
just want to play with it. Here are some express installation tips.

Prerequisites
• Have JDK 5.01 installed on your system (remember to have the JAVA_HOME variable set up on the
path to JDK5.0)
• Download JeromeDL installer2 and run it, or ...
• Download JeromeDL+Tomcat package3 and unpack it to any writable device (can be a USB stick)

Running JeromeDL on Windows

1. go to the directory where JeromeDL package has been unpacked
2. execute

startup.bat

3. check your web browser with address http://localhost:8080/jeromedl/

4. if nothing unexpected has happened - congratulations - you have a JeromeDL instance running

Running JeromeDL on Linux

1. Open the console
2. go to the directory where the JeromeDL package has been unpacked:

cd PATH_TO_WHERE_JEROMEDL_IS_UNPACKED

3. execute

startup.sh

4. check your web browser with address http://localhost:8080/jeromedl/

5. if nothing unexpected has happened - congratulations - you have a JeromeDL instance running
However, once you are happy with it, and ready to use it as your semantic digital library, this configura-
tion tutorial will come in very handy. There are some things you might want to change to accommodate the
installation to your environment, or to use any of the advanced features like aggregation mode (see Sec. 1.4)
or distributed searching (See Sec. 1.5.
1
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
2
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/bin/JeromeDL-2.0.1.jar
3
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/bin/JeromeDL-2.0.1.tar.gz
2 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

1.2 Altering Look and Feel

Once you have your JeromeDL up and running - you will need to tweak the way it looks. There are two
places where you should look at for things to be changed:

• JeromeDL/image/ folder where some of the images can be replaced with your own logos. You
can start by looking at the images in sub-folders with locale names, such as, en or de.
• JeromeDL/WEB-INF/src/org/jeromedl/i18n/ or
JeromeDL/WEB-INF/classes/org/jeromedl/i18n/ (depending on wheather you installed
JeromeDL from sources or not) - please take some time to update the following properties:

a9_contact_person = noone@no.com

dc_creator = Jon Doe jon[dot]doe[at]no[dot]com

dc_publisher = Jon Doe Publishing
dc_subject = Easy publishing
dc_title = Jon’s Digital Library

title = Jon’s Digital Library

1.3 SMTP Settings

Many places where JeromeDL was installed in its early days required special SMTP settings for e-mail
delivery. Although those settings are used only when a user registers him/herself to the system, they need to
be set up if your ISP requires any special configuration.
In order to change email settings, go to JeromeDL/WEB-INF/jeromedl.properties and alter
the following properties:

• jeromedl.foafmatic.adminEmail - the email of the person allowed to send emails

• jeromedl.foafmatic.fromEmail - the email that appears as the sender of the registration emails sent
by JeromeDL
• jeromedl.foafmatic.smtpServer - the address of the SMTP server
• jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.auth - use SMTP authentication (true|false)?
• jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.username - username used for SMTP authentication
• jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.password - password used for SMTP authentication

Here is an example configuration:

jeromedl.foafmatic.adminEmail = no.one@no.com
jeromedl.foafmatic.fromEmail = no.user@no.com
jeromedl.foafmatic.smtpServer = smtp.no.com
jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.auth = false
jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.username = false
jeromedl.foafmatic.mail.password = false
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 3

1.4 Aggregation Services

One of the advanced features of JeromeDL is to establish a hierarchical federation of digital libraries. The
content of the libraries at one level of hierarchy is aggregated by those set up on the level above them.
In order to enable this feature go to JeromeDL/WEB-INF/jeromedl.properties and alter the
property jeromedl.scrapping.servers.
Here is an example:

jeromedl.scrapping.servers = http://localhost:7080, http://localhost:8080

1.5 HyperCuP Lightweight Implementation in JeromeDL - User Guide

1.5.1 Introduction
HyperCuP Lightweight Implementation4 is an open source library that provides a communication backend
for developing distributed applications with a very efficient broadcast algorithm.
The aim of this manual is to provide general information about configuring HyperCuP within JeromeDL.
Moreover, the manual shows how to configure a single JeromeDL installation to make it able to co-operate
with other instances.

1.5.2 HyperCuP Configuration

Using Properties File (recommended) The easiest and recommended way to configure the HyperCuP is
to prepare a properties file: JeromeDL/WEB-INF/hypercup.properties. An example properties
file looks like the following:

services.amount = 2
services.name.1 = elp
services.name.2 = dfoaf
service.elp.localquery = org.jeromedl.service.elp.LocalQueryImpl
service.elp.url = http://another.library.net/services/HyperCuPService
service.elp.integrationchampion = http://another.library.net/
services/HyperCuPService
service.dfoaf.localquery = org.foafrealm.hypercup.LocalQueryImpl
service.dfoaf.url = http://another.library.net/services/HyperCuP4DFOAF
service.dfoaf.integrationchampion = http://another.library.net/
services/HyperCuP4DFOAF

From an administrator’s perspective, only four lines are important, which are responsible for setting up
the addresses. The administrator should adjust them to the library needs:

• service.elp.url=http://another.library.net/services/HyperCuPService - This entry contains a proper

address of the ELP service (distributed searching protocol in JeromeDL) . Usually, it is required to
change the ”another.library.net” to a correct library address. Each library has a unique
address.
4
http://www.hypercup.org/
4 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 1: Starting connections

• service.elp.integrationchampion=http://library.deri.org/services/HyperCuPService - This line in-

forms the system about the other library elp service address which the system will connect after press-
ing the start button. The administrator must replace the ’library.deri.org’ part with a correct service’s
address. The address can be same for many libraries who participate in the federated network.

• service.dfoaf.url=http://another.library.net/services/HyperCuP4DFOAF - The line’s meaning is

similar to the service.elp.url; it contains a proper address of the dfoaf service. Usually, it is required to
change the ’library.deri.ie’ to a correct library address. The address is individual for various libraries.

• service.dfoaf.integrationchampion=http://another.library.net/services/HyperCuP4DFOAF - The
line meaning is similar to the service.elp.integrationchampion; it informs the system about the other
dfoaf service address provided by other library which the system will connect after pressing the start
button. The administrator must replace the ’library.deri.org’ part with a correct service’s address. The
address can be same for many libraries who participate in the federated network. When the properties
file is completed, the administrator must click on the start button (See Fig. 1) in the HyperCuP panel.

Using WWW Panel It is possible to configure HyperCuP using the web panel. HyperCuP’s panel is
depicted in the (See Fig. 2) (See Tab. 1.5.2) for an explanation of the fields.
Configured libraries are able to co-operate with each other. If two librarians decide to connect their
libraries, one of them must join to the other. In order to perform this task, an administrator must fill in the
form (6) with the other libraryâĂŹs service address and press the join (7) button.
JeromeDL uses two services: dfoaf and elp; they require separate configuration.
The HyperCuP protocol [2] connects libraries using specific algorithms as a result libraries have con-
nections which are known as virtual; they are needed for maintenance reasons; such connections are listed
in the ’The peers for this service’ area (8). It is strongly recommended to use a properties file in order
to configure libraries!

Configuration Test In order to check if the provided addresses are correct, the administrator should try to
enter the parameters given in the service.elp.url and service.elp.integrationchampion to a web browser. For
instance, entering http://library.deri.ie/services/HyperCuPService or
http://library.deri.org/services/HyperCuPService should result in a web page (see
Fig. 3).
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 5

Figure 2: HyperCuP’s control panel

Figure 3: Correct elp service configuration

6 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 4: Correct dfoaf service configuration

So as to check the dfoaf service, we proceed similarly. Entering service.dfoaf.url or service.dfoaf.integrationchampion

parameters in a web-browser should results in showing a screen (See Fig. 4).
Additionally, the successful configuration process is noticeable from the HyperCuP administration panel.
Clicking on the link 4 (See Fig. 1) results in showing the current configuration; a sample configuration has
been shown in (See Fig. 5). Only connections which are configured by means of the properties are shown
on this page. Moreover, the connections have different status.
The status is explained below.

• Not initialized – the service still needs some steps to complete the configuration process,
• Initialized but not connected – the service is initialized. However, it is not connected to any other
service,
• Initialized and connected and – informs that the service is both configured and connected with other
service or services,
• Unknown – some unexpected problems arose.

1.6 RDF Storage

JeromeDL uses Sesame as the RDF storage. The default JeromeDL installation comes with Sesame using
native RDF storage. However, you can change it by altering to JeromeDL/WEB-INF/sesame.conf
file.
For further reference please refer to Sesame user manual5 .

1.7 Paths, URL, etc. - Advanced Settings

There are a number of additional settings in JeromeDL/WEB-INF/jeromedl.properties that can
help you tweak JeromeDL behaviour towards your needs.

• jeromedl.defaultLanguage - default language that JeromeDL will greet its visitors. Your can se-
lect any locale from English, Polish, German, Korean, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese-
Brazilian, French, Dutch, Bulgarian and Gaelic. But be aware that JeromeDL v2.0.1 fully supports
only the first 7 of them.
5
http://www.openrdf.org/doc/sesame/users/ch03.html
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 7

Figure 5: Predefined connections preview

• jeromedl.indexPath - relative or absolute path to where the fulltext index of documents should be
stored
• jeromedl.storagePath - relative or absolute path to where the binary resources should be stored
• jeromedl.resourceMaxSize - maximal allowed size for uploaded resources
• jeromedl.indexOptimizationPeriod - how often should the fulltext index be optimized
• jeromedl.search.default.distributed - indicates whether the searching should be distributed by de-
fault
• jeromedl.search.default.isConjunction - indicates whether the searching should be in conjunctive
mode by default
• jeromedl.mms.targetEndPoint - JeromeDL uses MarcOnt Mediation Services (MMS6 ) to deliver
bibliographic descriptions in different formats. If you decide to use JeromeDL in production mode -
please set up your own MMS and change this entry.
Here is an example configuration:

jeromedl.defaultLanguage = en

jeromedl.indexPath = WEB-INF/lucene/index/
jeromedl.storagePath = WEB-INF/storage/

jeromedl.resourceMaxSize = 2000000000
jeromedl.indexOptimizationPeriod = 1
6
MMS: http://mms.marcont.org
8 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

# default options for search

jeromedl.search.default.distributed = false
jeromedl.search.default.isConjunction = true

# marcont meditation services

jeromedl.mms.targetEndPoint = http://mms.marcont.org/services/MMSService

1.8 Running JeromeDL on Different Port

One of the problems you might have when running JeromeDL is that another application is already running
on port 8080, used by the Tomcat server in you installation of JeromeDL. To overcome the problem
you need to change the default port to some other (called in this section NEWPORT).

• open webapp/WEB-ING/jeromedl.properties file and change two properties:

jeromedl.resource.URI = http://localhost:NEWPORT/jeromedl/resource/%s
jeromedl.sesame.serviceURL = http://localhost:NEWPORT/sesame/

• open apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml and change

<Service name="Catalina">
...
<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" >
...
</Connector>
...
</Service>

to

<Service name="Catalina">
...
<Connector port="NEWPORT" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" >
...
</Connector>
...
</Service>

1.9 Building JeromeDL from Source Code

Here is a step-by-step information on how to build JeromeDL from source code.
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 9

Prerequisites
• JeromeDL source code7
Download the latest source code by executing:
svn co https://jeromedl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jeromedl/trunk jeromedl
• Apache Tomcat servlet container8 (version 5.5.17 or later)
• Apache Ant 9

Installation and running JeromeDL

• JeromeDL comes with some standard configuration. You can change it by changing properties files
located in base module in src directory
• Install Apache Tomcat
• Install libraries in Tomcat by copying or symbolic linking:
– all jar files from webapp/WEB-INF/lib/tomcat/client/lib/ to
CATALINA_HOME/client/lib/
– all jar files from webapp/WEB-INF/lib/tomcat/server/lib/ to
CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/
– file webapp/WEB-INF/lib/tomcat/cont/Catalina/localhost/jeromedl.xml
to CATALINA\_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/. docBase attribute in this file should
be pointing to the webapp module path
• Modify webapp/WEB-INF/build.xml to contain proper paths
• Build the project by executing:
ant
in webapp/WEB-INF directory
• Start Tomcat

1.10 JeromeDL Logging

You can also change the way that JeromeDL logs messages. JeromeDL uses the default Java logging so-
lution. To tweak it please change entries in JeromeDL/WEB-INF/src/logging.properties or
JeromeDL/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties (depending wheather you are setting up
JeromeDL from source code [first path] or not [latter path]).
Here is an example configuration:
handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

org.jeromedl.level = ALL

java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = CONFIG
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
7
http://jeromedl.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jeromedl/trunk/
8
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi
9
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
10 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

1.11 Guide for upgrading JeromeDL 2.0 to version 2.0.1

To upgrade to version 2.0.1 you should perform the following steps:

1. Download JeromeDL-2.0.1.tar.gz from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129949

2. Unpack the downloaded file to a new directory:

mkdir JeromeDL-2.0.1
cd JeromeDL-2.0.1
tar xzvf JeromeDL-2.0.1.tar.gz

3. Copy the resources and configs from your library to the new installation:

cd previous_jeromedl_installation_directory
cp -a webapp/WEB-INF/lucene ../JeromeDL-2.0.1/JeromeDL/webapp/WEB-INF
cp -a webapp/WEB-INF/storage ../JeromeDL-2.0.1/JeromeDL/webapp/WEB-INF
cp -a webapp/WEB-INF/dwn ../JeromeDL-2.0.1/JeromeDL/webapp/WEB-INF
cp -a webapp/WEB-INF/*.properties ../JeromeDL-2.0.1/JeromeDL/webapp/WEB-INF

4. Merge any other files which you have hand edited (for example apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml)

5. Run the new installation:

cd JeromeDL-2.0.1/JeromeDL
./startup.sh

6. Test the new installation by pointing your web browser to

http://localhost:8080/jeromedl or whatever address you configured JeromeDL to be
running at.

7. If everything is ok and you can browse and download all of you resources, you can delete the old
installation. To make things safe, make a backup of the old version installation before you delete it.

2 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - User Guide

2.1 Introduction
Welcome to JeromeDL Users Guide. Here, we will introduce you to the most important features of the
system - from browsing the library to accessing metadata.
To begin, please look at preview at the video presenting an overview of JeromeDL.(See Fig. 6
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 11

Figure 6: Overview of JeromeDL – screenshot from video

2.2 Registering to the System

Although, you can browse and search JeromeDL resources without registering, similar to a real-life library,
you gain more access as a registered user.
JeromeDL uses FOAFRealm10 identity management system to maintain registered users (and creators
of publications as well). The are 4 generic types of users recognized by the system:

• Not registered, users without a profile in the system. They can still browse and search the digital
library. But they cannot use certain features like bookmarking11 .
• Registered users, users with an account in one of the FOAFRealm systems can make use of the
bookmarking and collaborative filtering sub-system12 .
• Community members, are users that registered themselves and are linked by some other users as
friends in their FOAF profile. These users are allowed to upload resources13 to the system.
• Administrators, users that are the most trusted friends (the trust value in the profile is set to 1.0 )
of admin@foafrealm.org user. They have full control over the system, including: approving
resources for publishing14 , reindexing and refreshing database15 , configuring P2P network16 .
Before you will register to the system you need to create new account

1. Click the register link on the shorthand in the right-hand side of the page (see Fig. 7)

2. Provide a name , valid e-mail address and a new password (twice)

10
http://www.foafrealm.org/
11
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/userguide_bookmarking.html
12
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/userguide_bookmarking.html
13
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/adminguide_uploading.html
14
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/adminguide_approving.html
15
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/adminguide_maintenance.html
16
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/configuration_p2p.html
12 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 7: Registering and logging in to JeromeDL

3. Click submit

4. Check you email inbox for new email from the system

5. Click on the link provided to complete the installation

6. Please note that in order to gain administrative rights on the new account you need to login as admin-
istrator and set your new email as a friend of administrator with trust level = 1.0

Here is another video - a step by step registration process (See Fig. 8)

1. REGISTER
2. fill in the empty fields:
• name, email address and password (twice) are obligatory
3. click register
4. check your email inbox and open the mail with the link
to complete the registration process
5. you can login now
• provide login (your email address) and password
6. in "My profile":
• you can add your picture
• you can change information about yourself
• you can add / remove friends
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 13

Figure 8: A step by step registration process – screenshot from video

• click this button to accept uploaded information

• you cannot upload resources

7. logout
8. login as admin (admin@foafrealm.org)
9. you should add your email as a friend of admin
(default trust level = \textbf{0.5}) - this will give you
more access to JeromeDL
10. log-out
11. login with your own email again
12. you have more privileges now
- e.g. you can start uploading resources

2.3 Searching for Resources in JeromeDL

JeromeDL presents 4 ways to search for resources:

• A simple keyword-based search (with semantic query expansion based on your profile) (See Fig. 9)

• An advanced search based on schemata types (Dublin Core, MARC21, BibTeX) (See Fig. 10)

• A semantic search - where you can either provide an RDF query directly or use one of a couple of natu-
ral language templates (like: Show me all resources written by a friends of mine)
(See Fig. 11)

• A distributed search, including searching through A9.com17 interface

17
http://a9.com/
14 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 9: Simple, keyword search

Figure 10: Advanced search

Video presenting the search features in JeromeDL (See Fig. 2.3)

Simple search

1. click SIMPLE SEARCH in the menu

2. provide some keywords (e.g. WEB)
3. click SEARCH button

Advanced search

1. click ADVANCED SEARCH in the menu

2. provide some keywords (e.g.: digime)
3. provide name of the author (e.g. Kruk)
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 15

Figure 11: Semantic query interface

4. provide search term e.g. author’s name

5. select one of the properties presented
6. click "More Parameters" if you want to specify more query parameters
7. you can also remove some of existing query parameters
8. click SEARCH button

Video presenting the search in JeromeDL using the A9.com interface (See Fig. 2.3)

1. change URI
2. select Add / Remove options to select JeromeDL search engine
3. look up JeromeDL search engine(s)
4. click more info
5. type in your search query
6. go to the JeromeDL@DERI.International
7. choose simple search
8. type in the same search query
9. you can compare the search results

2.4 Browsing Digital Library

The browsing component in JeromeDL is something that we are currently improving. At the following
moment you can browse resources by filtering them with:

• Type of publication (article, in-proceedings, etc.) (See Fig. 14 and Fig. 15)

• Author of the publication (See Fig. 16)

16 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 12: Another short video presenting the search features in JeromeDL – screenshot from video

• Keywords describing the publication (See Fig. 17)

• Categories/topics describing publication (See Fig. 18)

Here is a short video presenting some of the browsing features in JeromeDL (See Fig. 19)

1. select the type of resources to display (e.g. articles)

2. display different types of view (table, jeromedl, google-like)
3. display different languages
4. display different types of sorting (title, authors, dates)
5. display number of resources and number of pages
6. click on a resource and it displays different
kinds of versions (html, pdf, rtf)
7. click on an author’s name

2.5 Reading Resources in JeromeDL

Once you find the resource that you were looking for, you can open it by clicking on the arrow next to
resource’s title (individual link to the resource - see Fig. 20).
You will be presented with information (see Fig. 21) on the resource, which can consist of:

• cover page
• abstract
• number of chapters
• number of attachments
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 17

Figure 13: ... and searching through the A9.com interface – screenshot from video

Figure 14: Start browsing by types of publications

• keywords
• categories/topic
• additional arbitrary properties, like e.g., related conference, publication place

Reading RTF/HTML resources (See Fig. 22)

1. select the type of resources to show

(e.g. publications)
2. click this resource
3. click here to show cover page
4. the cover page
5. click here to see the chapter in the HTML version
6. you can see the resource in the HTML version
18 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 15: JeromeDL presenting resources of type Master’s Thesis

7. click here to see the chapter in the PDF version

8. you can see the resource in the PDF version
9. you can change pages
10. click here to see the chapter in the RTF version
11. you can view the RTF version in your word processor
12. click here to view this resource (protected from printing)
in HTML version
13. the HTML version of the resource protected from printing
is rendered with the Java Applet
14. you can select chapters with this interface as well

Reading PDF resources (See Fig. 23)

1. select the type of resources to show (e.g. articles)

2. click this resource
3. click here to see the chapter in the PDF version
4. you can see the resource in the PDF version
5. you can change pages
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 19

Figure 16: JeromeDL presenting publications of Sebastian Ryszard Kruk

Figure 17: JeromeDL presenting publications annotated with keyword ’network’

20 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 18: JeromeDL presenting publications classified under category ’Directories’

Figure 19: Video presenting some of the browsing features in JeromeDL – screenshot from video

Reading external resources (See Fig. 24)

1. select the type of resources to show (e.g. miscellaneous)

2. click this resource
3. open this resource
4. you can see the resource in the HTML version

Reading SWF resources (See Fig. 25)

1. select the type of resources to show (e.g. manuals)

2. click this resource
3. click here to see multimedia part in Macromedia Flash
4. you can see the resource in Macromedia Flash format
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 21

Figure 20: Individual link to the resource

Figure 21: Information about the resource

22 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 22: Reading RTF/HTML resources – screenshot from video

5. you can change pages

6. click here to see the multimedia in
Macromedia Flash (smaller version)
7. change the type of the resource
8. you can see the resource
in Macromedia Flash again

Reading scanned resources – screenshot from video (See Fig. 26)

1. select the type of resources to show

(e.g. antique books)
2. open this resource
3. click here to see the collection of scanned pages
for this antique book
4. you can see the collection of scanned pages
for this antique book
5. you can change size of this resource
6. you can change pages

2.6 Sharing Knowledge with Community Bookmarks

JeromeDL features a unique collaborative filtering system based on social networking and enriched semantic
information, called social semantic collaborative filtering18 It allows users to easily bookmark, annotate
resources, share them and (if required) protect their knowledge.
To bookmark/annotate a resource - first click on the "individual link" (see Fig. 27) to the resource
18
http://library.deri.ie/resource/5e68d6a6
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 23

Figure 23: Reading PDF resources – screenshot from video

If you wish you can create a new directory - providing label, description, categories and keywords (see
Fig. 28):

1. Select the ‘box next to the directory where you what to put your resource
2. Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering is a pure AJAX application - so no need to submit a page :)

You can take a look on how the bookmarking system in JeromeDL works (See Fig. 29)

1. Log as user A.
2. Select one of types of resources - e.g. Publications
3. Click on this resource
4. Open individual resource view
5. Click Your Bookmarks
6. Create new directory
(a) Give name and description
(b) Select WordNet value
(c) Select some Taxonomies
(d) Click SAVE
7. Create new bookmark in the newly created directory.
8. Add this resource to selected directory
9. You can see results of your action
10. You can choose a second resource
11. Add the second resource to the same directory.
24 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 24: Reading external resources – screenshot from video

Figure 25: Reading SWF resources – screenshot from video

DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 25

Figure 26: Reading scanned resources

Figure 27: Individual link to the resource

26 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 28: Annotating resources to JeromeDL

DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 27

Figure 29: Adding resources to bookmark – screenshot from video

12. Go to the bookmarks page.

13. View your bookmark and bookmarks of your friends.
14. Copy one of the friend’s bookmark and paste into your directory.
15. Cut this directory and paste into another one.
16. See more information about directory.
17. See the directory policies.
18. Empty clipboard
19. Log as user B
20. Set policy to the directory.
21. Log as user A
22. Open bookmarks of user B, and see that directory
with policy set is hidden.

You can also access and manage your bookmarks with your mobile device (See Fig. 30)

1. Log into FOAFRealm (as Damyan@deri.org)

2. Select Friends list
3. Explore friends’ list
4. Select one friend
(a) Show information about a friend
(b) View friend’s bookmarks
(c) Explore friend’s bookmarks
5. Add new friend
28 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 30: Manage your bookmarks with your mobile device – screenshot from video
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 29

6. See new friend’s details

7. Remove friend
8. Send e-mail to a friend
9. Back to main menu
10. Open Bookmarks
11. Explore bookmarks
12. View details about a bookmark
13. Add new bookmark
14. Remove added bookmark
15. Explore next directory
16. Back to main menu
17. Select Profile
18. Explore and edit profile
19. Check profile changes
20. Log as different user (York@deri.org)
21. View bookmarks
22. Set rights to one of the directories
23. Log one more time as first user (Damyan@deri.org)
24. View friends list
25. View York@deri.org bookmarks
26. See that Damyan has no rights to one of the directories
27. End application

2.7 Access to Meta-data

JeromeDL delivers access not only to the resources but also to the meta-data. There are couple of meta-data
standards supported by JeromeDL:

1. A user stays notified on the new publications uploaded to JeromeDL library by subscribing to an RSS
channel either with one of the channels listed in the shorthand (see Fig. 31) or with an embedded link
to the RSS channel (recognized by many web browsers, e.g. Mozilla)

2. Almost every page presented to the user by JeromeDL is rendered out of the RDF information, which
the user can get access to (see Fig. 32)

3. To support different meta-data standards, JeromeDL utilized MarcOnt Mediation Services19 , which
can be invoked by selecting the RDF icon next to the publication (see Fig. 33).
19
MarcOnt Mediation Services: http://mms.marcont.org/
30 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 31: RSS channels in JeromeDL

Figure 32: Links to RDF sources of the presented information

Figure 33: MarcOnt Mediation Services invoked from JeromeDL

DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 31

Figure 34: Access RSS channels in JeromeDL – screenshot from video

4. Since there are many ways to express semantically rich information, JeromeDL aims to support more
and more of them. Currently, users can facilitate from the information being embedded in HTML web
pages in20 :

• eRDF21
• microformats22

5. Semantic information managed by JeromeDL is also detectable by Semantic Radar23

Take a look a the video showing how to access RSS channels in JeromeDL (See Fig. 34)

1. you can see different types of RSS feeds

2. add Live Bookmark
3. show Bookmarks Toolbar
4. you can select from bookmarks a resource
which you are interested in

2.8 JeromeDL Internationalization

One of the aims of the JeromeDL project is to make it as user-friendly as possible. That is why it is so
important for us to make it communicate in your language. If it cannot at the moment - maybe you can help
us24 .?
Here is a video on how to change the default language in JeromeDL (See Fig. 35)
20
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/images/showimage12.jpg
21
http://research.talis.com/2005/erdf/xtech2006.html
22
http://microformats.org/
23
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/userguide_access.html
24
http://www.jeromedl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=51
32 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 35: Languages in JeromeDL – screenshot from video

3 JeromeDL: The Semantic Digital Library - Librarians Guide

3.1 Introduction
JeromeDL delivers a number of features accessible only to administrators, librarians or advanced users -
among them uploading resources, approving for publication or reindexing the database.
Here is some video presenting an overview of administrative features (See Fig. 36)

1. present general overview of the system

2. click Administration panel
3. show introductory documentation
4. move over most common features

3.2 Becoming Admin

To be granted administrative rights you need to login as the admin (see below) or become a trusted friend of
the admin.

1. Click login link on the shorthand in the right-hand side of the page
2. provide login admin@foafrealm.org
3. provide password changeit!!
4. click submit and you should be registered with administrative rights

Please note that admin’s password should be changed as soon as possible after installation.
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 33

Figure 36: Video presenting overview of administrative features – screenshot from video

Figure 37: Accessing Uploading Interface

3.3 Uploading Resources to JeromeDL

To upload resources to JeromeDL you do not have to be an admin. However, since this feature is restricted
to members of the community25 we have decided to include it here.

• link to the interface is located on the shorthand in the right-hand side of the page (see Fig. 37)

• first select the type of the resources you want to upload:

1. PDF – resource with a couple of chapters, each consisting of one PDF file
2. RTF – resource with a couple of chapters, each consisting of one RTF file (this resources can be
later rendered also as HTML or PDF)
3. SWF – resource with a couple of multimedia parts, each consisting of one or two (if a smaller
version of the presentation is also provided) Macromedia Flash presentations
25
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/userguide_registering.html
34 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 38: Providing Basic Information

4. SCAN – resource with a couple of chapters, each consisting of many JPG or PNG images
(pages)
5. URI – resource that is not stored in the JeromeDL database, but somewhere else
• fill some basic information about the publication (see Fig. 38):

1. Provide the title of the resource

2. Select authors/editors etc. by providing parts of their names and drag-and-dropping them to an
appropriate category
3. Provide an abstract of the resource
4. Select a cover page of the resource

• Now you can add the new content - chapters/parts of the publication (see Fig. 39)

1. Start adding new chapters

2. Fill in starting and ending pages
3. Select digital resources (PDF, RTF, images) to upload in each chapter

• Later, you can annotate the publication with keywords and categories or topics (see Fig. 40)

1. Select entries in taxonomies to describe this resource

2. Select keywords from WordNet or provide your own

• Finally, you can attach some other binary resources (see Fig. 41), and provide additional annotations
using (see Fig. 42):
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 35

Figure 39: Adding chapters

Figure 40: Annotating publication with keywords and categories/topics

36 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 41: Uploading attachments

Figure 42: Additional descriptions

– properties from MarcOnt ontology

– any properties referenced by URI
– new properties using short name (they will become suggestions for the next versions of the
MarcOnt ontology)

Following video present uploading publications step-by-step

1. choose digital type of resource to upload

- e.g. pdf, scans, swf etc.
2. choose type of the resource
- e.g. article, book, old book etc.
3. fill in the title
4. copy the abstract
5. paste the abstract
6. fill in the uri (if digital type is an uri)
7. fill in the abstract
8. choose cover page
9. choose whether resource is pre-print version
10. choose protection type - e.g. protected from copying,
available after paying
11. fill in a part of the author’s name
12. click SEARCH
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 37

13. select creator(s), publishers and contributors

through AJAX component
14. after finding person(s) use drag & drop to place them
in appropriate boxes
15. you can add many chapters
16. add many media parts (the same steps as for chapter)
17. add many pages within the chapters (multifile upload applet
as a convenient way to add and send many files at once)
18. fill in empty fields for each chapter:
name, title, pages from, pages to
19. choose files and upload - e.g. content,
smaller content, pages
20. add attachments (through multifile upload applet)
21. choose domains related to the resource being uploaded.
One can choose a value from many different classifications
(e.g. PKT, DDC, DMOZ). Another AJAX component is used for this purpose.
22. choose WordNet keywords describing the resource. Again AJAX component
is used for it. After searching for particular word, one can view a
detailed description of results and drag & drop desired keywords
to the prepared box. Keywords not from WordNet can also be added.
23. (the progress bar will indicate the progress
in uploading files to the server) in the mean while you can
continue describing resource
24. fill in some additional information
25. click SEND to finish the upload

Different upload forms for different type of resource (See Fig. 43)

1. fill in empty fields

2. forms are created dynamically depending
on the type of resource to add

Support for many languages (i18n) (See Fig. 44)

1. translations of uploader form

2. you can change the language
38 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 43: Different upload forms for different type of resource – screenshot from video

Figure 44: Support for many languages (i18n) – screenshot from video
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 39

Figure 45: Uploading pdf file (book) – screenshot from video

Figure 46: Uploading scans (old book) – screenshot from video

40 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 47: Uploading presentation (swf) – screenshot from video

Uploading pdf file (book) (See Fig. 45)

1. form for uploading pdf

2. adding many chapters
3. adding content for each of the chapters
Uploading scans (old book) (See Fig. 46

1. form for uploading scans

2. adding many chapters
3. adding and uploading many scanned
pages within each of the chapters
Uploading presentation (swf) (See Fig. 47

1. form for uploading swf (presentations)

2. adding media part
3. adding content and smaller content (with lower resolution)

3.4 Approving publications

JeromeDL allows each community member to upload resources to the database. However, in order to control
the quality of the resources published in the library, each resource has to be approved by an administrator
after uploading (or after each time the resource has been changed).
A video showing how to approve publications in JeromeDL (See Fig. 48)

1. log-out if logged
2. login as administrator (admin@foafrealm.org)
DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 41

Figure 48: Approve publications in JeromeDL – screenshot from video

3. admin’s account gives you full access to JeromeDL

4. login as you again and now you have full access
5. click APPROVE PUBLICATIONS
6. select resources you want to publish
7. click PUBLISH
8. check if the resources you selected are published

3.5 Maintenance
There are a couple of features restricted to the administrator, that are allowed to maintain the digital library
service. All of them can be accessed from the shorthand panel at the right-hand side on JeromeDL web
page.

• Re-indexing database (fulltext index)

• Refreshing database, e.g., removing unreferenced binary resources
• HyperCuP configuration 26
• Checking current configuration
A short video showing how to re-index database (See Fig. 49)

1. click on REINDEX in the shorthand

2. wait till the page will load

26
http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/configuration_p2p.html
42 DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02

Figure 49: How to re-index database – screenshot from video

DERI E LITE P ROJECT D1.1.02 43

number
on the name description
Fig.
1 version id for information only. in order to connect different libraries into one network,
all libraries must have the same hypercup version.
2 keep-alive a control value which enables to check states of the connected libraries. the
interval default value is 20000 milliseconds; it means that the library checks the avail-
ability of other connected libraries every 20 seconds. if an accident occurs
or a connection is unsuccessful, the automatic repair of the connection is per-
formed.
3 restore pre- it allows an administrator to start a set of predefined connections. the properties
defined con- can be viewed by clicking on a highlighted link (4). figure 5 in section 4 shows
nections an example window which appears after clicking on the link. the button start
executes the prepared configuration file.
4 properties the location of the properties file. click on it to preview.
link
5 start a new this area allows creating new services. working with JeromeDL, an admin-
service istrator probably will never use this feature. Here is a sample configuration:
1. enter service address (D-FOAF):
http://library.deri.ie/jeromedl/services/
hypercup4dfoaf

2. enter service alias: dfoaf

3. localquery implementation:
org.foafrealm.hypercup.localqueryimpl

4. enter service address (ELP):

http://library.deri.ie/jeromedl/services/
hypercupservice

5. enter service alias: dfoaf

6. localquery implementation:
org.jeromedl.service.elp.localqueryimpl
The service addresses differ depending on the real installation address. After
filling in the forms, the button initialize (10) must be pressed; if everything
went correctly a new service will appear in the available services (9) area.
6 address enter the address of the library you are going to connect
7 join press it when you configure the service and are going to join.
8 peers the list of the peers who are connected to a given service
9 available this area shows a detailed overview of all configured services. Here is the
services meaning of all fields:
alias the service’s name,

address the service’s address,

query status if the localquery is registered correctly, the status is ”ok”.

Table 1: Fields descriptions