Document Type
Article
Date
2006
Keywords
Metadata standards, Digital libraries, Ontologies, Semantic modeling
Language
English
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
As more information becomes “born digital”, metadata creation is increasingly becoming part of the information creation process. Current metadata schemes inherit much of the library cataloging tradition, which has shown limitations on representing “born digital” type of resources. Through analysis of issues of metadata schemes and review of metadata research and projects, the authors propose an ontology-based approach to building a modular metadata model in which semantics and syntax may be integrated to suit the needs for representing “born digital” resources. The authors use an learning object ontology as an example to demonstrate how the semantics and syntax may be built into a modular model for metadata.
Recommended Citation
Qin, J. & Prado, J.C. (2006). The semantic and syntactic model of metadata. In: Alfabetiza??o Digital e Accesso ao Conhecimento (S?rie Comunica??o da Informacao Digital 2006), Vol. 4 (pp. 143-156). Brasilia: Departmento de Ci?ncia da Informa??o e Documenta??o, Universidade de Brasilia.
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