The invention relates to a visual label topic map-based pilot method of a digital library. The visual label topic map-based pilot method includes the steps of 1, defining different topic classes, defining subclasses, namely label topics, under each topic class, and then defining examples of the subclasses; 2, defining association types of the label topics; 3, defining information resource entities, namely bottoms of the label topic maps; 4, creating label topic maps; 5, constructing a semantic network to show semantic associations, allowing the label topic maps to be visual. In this way, recall ratio and precision ratio of information retrieval are increased, and interdisciplinary knowledge sharing and resource location is facilitated.