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Metadata and the Web

Safari, Mehdi Metadata and the Web. Webology, 2004, vol. 1, n. 2. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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The rapid increase in the number and variety of resources on the World Wide Web has made the problem of resource description and discovery central to discussions about the efficiency and evolution of this medium. The inappropriateness of traditional schemas of resource description for web resources has encouraged significant activities recently on defining web-compatible schemas named "metadata". While conceptually old for library and information professionals, metadata has taken more significant and paramount role than ever before and is considered as the golden key for the next evolution of the web in the form of semantic web. This article is intended to be a brief introduction to metadata and tries to present its overview in the web.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	World Wide Web; Metadata; Resource Description; Dublin Core; Semantic Web; Ontology
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages. L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines. L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user:	Mehdi Safari
Date deposited:	15 Oct 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7318

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