The Social Science Virtual Library Project Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity at the Query Processing Level

The Social Science Virtual Library Project (funded by the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG’) aims at presenting an integrated view to distributed, heterogeneous data of German social science literature. The main emphasis has been put on solving problems of access to such diverse document sets. As a prerequisite for higher services, an adequate system architecture has been implemented. The heterogeneity in content description systems will be solved by translation components, which realize a switching of vocabulary.