Title :
Logical information modeling of Web-accessible heterogeneous digital assets
Author :
Shah, Kshitij ; Sheth, Amit
Author_Institution :
Large Scale Distributed Inf. Syst. Lab., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
Abstract :
Introduces the MREF (Metadata REFerence) framework for representing and correlating information at a higher semantic level than is possible with Web-based information systems today. The role that metadata plays in this framework is described, together with a metadata-based infrastructure to support our media-independent information correlation paradigm. To keep it consistent with evolving standards, broader acceptance and ease of implementation, MREF abstraction is structured on top of RDF and XML. Its central role in the content of the InfoQuilt system, for exploiting heterogeneous digital media using a federated and scalable architecture, is briefly described
Keywords :
Internet; correlation methods; data structures; distributed databases; software standards; InfoQuilt system; MREF framework; RDF; World Wide Web-accessible heterogeneous digital assets; World Wide Web-based information systems; XML; acceptance; ease of implementation; evolving standards; federated architecture; heterogeneous digital media; information representation; logical information modeling; media-independent information correlation paradigm; metadata reference framework; metadata-based infrastructure; scalable architecture; semantic level; Information retrieval; Information systems; Knowledge representation; Large-scale systems; Nonhomogeneous media; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Terminology; Uniform resource locators; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, 1998. ADL 98. Proceedings. IEEE International Forum on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8464-X
DOI :
10.1109/ADL.1998.670427
