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Review of major 2011 developments in the field of bibliographic cataloguing, document management and documentary languages. The use of content management systems for web publishing, the emergence of new approaches such as web experience management and the integration of web productivity components are analyzed.

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The selection of a library management system is often affected by social, economic and political conditions that may result in an inappropriate choice for a library’s needs, characteristics and functions. Free software, or freeware, is one of the more often selected solutions, given the freedom to copy, modify and distribute it in addition to free licensing and the possibilities for integration with other applications. This trend is reflected in librarianship curricula, in which automation software, repository management software, and even Linux/GNU, among others, are explained in a variety of courses. This combination of organizational needs and freeware trends led a group of professors from the Faculty of Library and Information Science (UB) and members of the Work Group on Free Software for Information Professionals (Cobdc) to create a virtual laboratory for the use of free software for library applications, as a contribution to the professional community.

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This paper aims to determine the scope of application of SKOS in the Semantic Web. Controlled vocabularies registered in the The Data Hub catalog of RDF datasets that use SKOS were studied. In addition to establishing a typology of vocabularies, authors analyzed the issues related to open access to data through its direct download, its query through a Sparql endpoint and the existence of appropriate licenses. The existing level of interoperability through the definition of mapping relationships between vocabularies are examined. The study concludes that thesauri and classifications are more integrated into the open data environment while subject headings lists have greater interoperability.

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The documentary language thesaurus, as standard terms, have been an important development for document management using software applications such as TemaTres, which is a controlled vocabulary server. This free application, for use on the web, provides continuous access to the sets of documents on specific topics for study, research and decision making. It presents the installation, functionality and interface that shows the application structure and ways of exploiting TemaTres for visual representation and management o fcontrolled vocabularies.