A semantic modeling approach to metadata

Abstract

States that heterogeneous project groups today may be expected to use the mechanisms of the Web for sharing information. Metadata has been proposed as a mechanism for expressing semantics of information and, hence, facilitate information retrieval, understanding and use. Presents an approach to sharing of information which aims to use a semantic modeling language as the basis for expressing semantics of information and designing metadata schemes. Functioning in the borderlines between human and computer understandability, the modeling language could be able to express semantics of published Web documents. Reporting on work in progress, the paper presents the overall framework and ideas.

Metadata, semantics, and ontology: providing meaning to information resources

“…Metadata has been proposed as a mechanism for expressing the 'semantics' of information, as a means to facilitate information seeking, retrieval, understanding, and use. But meaning can be considered as a 'locally constructed' artefact, as described by Brasethvik (1998), so that some form of agreement is required to maintain a common space of understanding. In consequence, metadata languages require shared representations of knowledge as the basic vocabulary from which metadata statements can be asserted.…”