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Semantic Search in Peer-to-Peer based Digital Libraries Hao Ding Dept. of Computer and Information System, Norwegian Univ. of Sci. Tech. Sem Sælands vei 7-9, NO-7491, Trondheim, Norway hao.ding@idi.ntnu.no ABSTRACT to [2], FDL is described as a group of organizations, working to- This paper gives an outline of a PhD thesis inspired by the infor- gether formally or informally, that agree to support a set of common mation searching over heterogeneous metadata records within the services and standards, thus providing interoperability among their scenario of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based digital libraries. We survey a members. Conventionally, most of FDLs are built in client/server representative set of P2P systems in order to build prospective plat- fashion. However, with the sharp growth of enormous number of form and discuss why a super-peer (peer community) based topol- digital libraries, especially those moderate-sized ones, there be- ogy is suitable for schema-based P2P applications. Furthermore, comes a performance bottle problem in FDLs. One of the revealing we exploit ontologies for storing metadata records in a structured example is the ’failure to search’ problem existed in earlier ver- and formal way, and for broadening queries with closely related sion NCSTRL library [9]. Although NCSTRL is now divided into terms, thus yielding more relevant results. All metadata records regions and lookup and search are conducted in local region such into RDF format and a RDF database, such as Sesame, is adopted that load on the central server is alleviated someho