International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 7(2), 65-79, April-June 2013 65 Copyright © 2013, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. ABSTRACT Digital information resources on the web have been playing an important role during the information and knowledge propagation. Advanced applications such as intelligent information retrieval and information recommendation need the semantic relations among the digital information resources. Massive hyperlinks have existed in the current web; however, the semantic relations among the information resources are implicit or missing, and this has hindered the effciency and effect of information sharing and information reuse, so it is necessary to evolve the hyperlinks to semantic links for enhancing the semantic connections between information resources on the web. Implicit and missing semantic links among the digital information resources are needed by the intelligent applications. In this paper, the authors propose an approach to enhance the semantic associations among digital information resources for realizing a semantic linked web. Applications based on semantic links are discussed and compared with applications on the current web. The semantic linked web can be regarded as a promising stage in the way to the semantic web. Semantically Linking Information Resources for Web-Based Sharing Junsheng Zhang, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Yingfan Gao, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Yanqing He, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Hongjiao Xu, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Chongde Shi, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Peng Qu, IT Support Center, Institute of Scientifc and Technical Information of China, Beijing, China Keywords: Digital Information Resources, Information Sharing, Relationship, Semantic Link Network, Web Information Resource DOI: 10.4018/ijcini.2013040105