Designing a Metadata-Enabled Namespace for Enhancing Resource Discovery in Knowledge Bases [Version presented at the International Conference]

Howarth, Lynne C. Designing a Metadata-Enabled Namespace for Enhancing Resource Discovery in Knowledge Bases [Version presented at the International Conference]., 2001 . In International Conference Electronic Resources : Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome, 26-28 November 2001. [Conference paper]

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The proliferation of digitized resources accessible via Internet and Intranet knowledge bases, and a pressing need to develop more sophisticated tools for the identification and retrieval of electronic resources, both general purpose and domain-specific metadata schemes have assumed a particular prominence. While recent work emanating from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has focused on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and metadata maps or “crosswalks” have been created to support the interoperability of metadata standards -- thus converting metatags from diverse domains from simply “machine-readable” to “machine-understandable” -- the next iteration, to “human-understandable”, remains a challenge. This apparent gap provides a framework for three-phase research (Howarth, 2000, 1999) to develop a tool which will provide a “human-understandable” front-end search assist to any XML-compliant metadata scheme. Findings from phase one, the analyses and mapping of eight metadata schemes, identify the particular challenges of designing a common “namespace”, populated with element tags which are appropriately descriptive, yet readily understood by a lay searcher, when there is little congruence within, and a high degree of variability across, the metadata schemes under study. Implications for the subsequent design and testing of both the proposed “metalevel ontology” (phase two), and the prototype search assist tool (phase three) are examined.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Metadata, namespace, Resource Discovery, digitized resources, electronic resources, RDF, Resource Description Framework, crosswalks, interoperability, metatags, XML, eXtensible Markup Language, DOI, Digital Object Identifier, metadata syntax, Encoded Archival Description, EAD, Dublin Core, DC, Government Information Locator Services, GILS, metadata registries, Metadata Schemes, Text Encoding Initiative Header, TEI Header, Visual Resources Association Visual Document Description Categories, VRA Visual Document Description Categories, Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information metadata set, CIMI metadata set, Digital Geospatial Metadata, DGM, ontologies, MARC, metadati, reperimento delle risorse, risorse elettroniche, mappature, interoperabilità, ontologie, registri di metadati, schemi di metadati, sintassi di metadati
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology I. Information treatment for information services
Depositing user:	Maria Cristina Bassi
Date deposited:	13 May 2003
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 11:57
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4090

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