Proc. Int’l. Conf. on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 What Terms Does Your Metadata Use? Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The SCHEMAS Registry aims at providing a selected and annotated overview of metadata vocabularies and their use in application environments. Based on harvested metadata in RDF (Resource Description Framework), the registry allows users to explore links between "namespace schemas", which declare standard definitions of metadata terms, and "application profiles " – RDF statements about the use or adaptation of namespace terms for particular domains, services, or projects. Where instance metadata does not follow standard namespaces or explicit data models, this style allows implementors to assert an explicit mapping to standard terms. Registering profiles can help harmonize metadata usage in particular domains and, in the longer term, could provide a machineprocessable basis for automating crosswalks and conversions. Keywords: Metadata, Semantic Web, RDF, Application Profiles 1 Motivation for a registry of schemas The concept of machine-understandable documents does not imply some magical artificial intelligence which allows machines to comprehend human mumblings. It only indicates a machine's ability to solve a welldefined problem by performing well-defined operations on existing well-defined data. Instead of asking machines to understand people's language, it involves asking people to make the extra effort.-- Tim Berners-Lee [1]
Institutions: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, UKOLN
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1642215392