Erik Duval

PDFDU | The rapid changes in the means of information access occasioned by the emergence of the World Wide Web has spawned an upheaval in the means of describing and managing information resources. Metadata is a primary tool in this work and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. Yet there is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended? Who will manage it? How can it be used and exchanged? Whence comes its authority? Can different metadata standards be used together in a given environment? These and related questions motivate this paper | The paragraphs in the Principles section set out general truths the authors believe provide a guiding framework for the development of practical solutions for semantic and machine interoperability in any domain using any set of metadata standards |

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Principles
-- Modularity
-- Namespaces and Metadata Modularity
-- Extensibility
-- Refinement
-- Multilingualism
3. Practicalities
-- Application Profiles
-- Syntax and Semantics
-- Association Models: Embedded Metadata, Associated Metadata, Third-Party Metadata
-- Identifying and Naming Metadata Elements: Tokens Versus Labels
-- Metadata Registries: DCMI Registry Working Group
-- Completeness of Description: Detailed Metadata, Simple Metadata
-- Mandatory Versus Optional Elements
-- Subjective and Objective Metadata
-- Automated Generation of Metadata
4. Conclusions
5. Acknowledgements
6. References
-- The Open Metadata Registry Prototype http://wip.dublincore.org:8080/registry/Registry
-- Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Greenberg/
-- Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/intro.html
-- Namespaces in XML, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names
-- The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm
-- Special section on semantic interoperability in global information systems http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/9903/
-- Date and Time Formats http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
7. Further Reading
-- http://dlib.org/dlib/october00/baker/10baker.html
-- http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/weibel/02weibel.html
-- http://www.jucs.org/jucs_7_7/metadata_standards_what_who
-- http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html
-- http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/lagoze/07lagoze.html
-- http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1998-41-4/p33-paepcke/
-- http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-04.pdf
8. Glossary
-- Metadata architecture: a coherent collection of enabling technologies, element sets, and standards of practice that collectively support the creation, management, and exchange of interoperable metadata
-- Namespace declaration: a convention for declaring a namespace in XML syntax that includes the URI for the namespace and specifies a colon-delimited prefix token that is prepended to all terms from that namespace used within the scope of the declaration
-- Schema: a formal grammar for a metadata element set expressed in a formal schema language (in the context of this paper, either a XML Schema or RDF Schema). Schemas may be simple (composed of elements drawn from a single namespace) or compound (composed of elements drawn from multiple namespaces).
-- URI: Uniform Resource Identifier: a globally unique identifier that identifies a Web resource (either a URL or a URN) constructed according to the HTTP namespace rules.
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SA - https://www.librarything.com/work/31727271/book/258397844 | https://www.librarything.com/work/31877166/book/260244162 | https://www.librarything.com/work/31720223/book/258338326 | https://www.librarything.com/work/31435824/book/254748026 | https://www.librarything.com/work/31433098/book/254698010 | https://www.librarything.com/work/13996188/book/254691083 |
RT - Frameworks
BT - Principles
NT - Schemas
UF - Metadata modularity is a key organizing principle for environments characterized by diverse sources of content, styles of content management, and approaches to resource description. It allows designers of metadata schemas to create new assemblies based on established metadata schemas and benefit from observed best practices.
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