Volume 1, No 2, 2004
Metadata and the Web
Mehdi Safari
Abstract
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.
Pages: 1-10
Keywords: World Wide Web, Metadata, Resource Description, Dublin Core, Semantic Web, Ontology