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Record Nr.

UNISA996198540703316

Autore

Greenberg Jane

Titolo

Metadata for semantic and social applications : proceedings of international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications, 22-26 September 2008 : DC 2008 : Berlin, Germany / / edited by Jane Greenberg and Wolfgang Klas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008

[Singapore] : , : Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Social Sciences

Library & Information Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration. DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic Web — the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of semantic models. These two trends flow together in applications such as Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured information that can be extracted and used to enhance access to and use of information sources. Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic standards can be expressed as Semantic Web vocabularies to facilitate the integration of library and cultural heritage data with other types of data. Harnessing the efforts of content providers and end-users to link, tag, edit, and describe their information in interoperable ways (”participatory metadata”) is a key step towards providing knowledge environments



that are scalable, self-correcting, and evolvable. DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the development and deployment of semantic and social applications to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.