XML and “meta-tagging”
Technical seminar for Pathfinder LEAs,
BECTa, Coventry,
26 February 2002

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XML and “meta-tagging”
Technical seminar for Pathfinder LEAs,
BECTa, Coventry,
26 February 2002

XML and “meta-tagging”

What is metadata?

What resources, objects, things?

Who/what is metadata for?

Metadata embedded in resource

Metadata linked from resource

Metadata points to resource

Metadata managed in database

What operations?

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Metadata for resource discovery

How is metadata shared?

Sharing metadata : semantics
Introducing the Dublin Core

Introducing the Dublin Core

Introducing the Dublin Core (2)

Introducing the Dublin Core (3)

Using the Dublin Core

Sharing metadata : syntax
Introducing XML

Introducing XML

Introducing XML (2)

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XML : document types & vocabularies

XML : DTDs, XML Schemas

XML : namespaces

Sharing metadata : structure
The limits of XML

The problem with XML

The problem with XML (2)

The problem with XML (3)

Introducing RDF

Introducing RDF (2)

The RDF model

The RDF model (2)

The RDF model (3)

The power of the RDF model

First source

Second source

Third source

Three descriptions merged

The RDF XML syntax

RDF Schema

RDF Schema (2)

Summary

Acknowledgements

Author: Pete Johnston

Email: p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/

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