ABSTRACT Semantic Web ontology files can be flexibly programmed to delineate metadata relationships in machine-readable formats to create relational pathways for discovering resources both on and off the Internet. There is a global community of Semantic Web developers and users across a broad multi-disciplinary range of interests who create and share extensible open-source ontologies. In this article, the author will explore the functionality of Semantic Web techniques for representing the ontologies of relatedness through kinship that typically underpin Australian Indigenous knowledge systems, and investigate their potentials for meeting persistent demands among leading Australian Indigenous collections creators and users to be able to search and discover their hereditary knowledge resources in ways that reflect and reinforce their enduring cultural values, ways of knowing and rights-management concerns.

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探索语义网在发现和导航澳大利亚土著知识资源方面的适用性

摘要 语义 Web 本体文件可以灵活编程，以机器可读格式描述元数据关系，以创建用于发现 Internet 内外资源的关系路径。有一个由语义 Web 开发人员和用户组成的全球社区，他们拥有广泛的多学科兴趣，他们创建和共享可扩展的开源本体。在本文中，作者将探索语义 Web 技术的功能，用于通过通常支持澳大利亚土著知识系统的亲属关系来表示相关性本体，