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- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:00:51 -0500 (CDT)
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> Metadata provenance: One of the key differences between the Semantic > Web and pre-existing systems is that the Semantic Web relies on > using metadata from many disparate sources, rather than having a > centrally managed store of metadata information. i don't think this is true. electronic union catalogs such as those provided by OCLC and RLG pre-date the semantic web by many years, and though they constitute centrally managed stores of metadata information, they rely exclusively on metadata from disparate sources. more recently, OAI repositories do the same thing. this is well-trodden territory in the library community. > Note that the usage of the term provenance is quite different to its > usage in the library community where it is used to refer to the > record of ownership of the item described by the metadata. some in the library community have worked on a standard way of addressing this area under the aegis of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/groups/admin/ DCMI Administrative Metadata Working Group i don't think the final form of the document (june 2003) is linked to from there yet, but i've archived a local copy: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/staffweb/depts/dldc/chas/readings/AdminCompFinalJune2003.pdf also worth looking at in this connection is: The <indecs> metadata framework Principles, model and data dictionary http://www.indecs.org/ 2000-06 Godfrey Rust, MUZE Inc Mark Bide, EDItEUR "An item of metadata is a relationship that someone claims to exist between two entities." (2.5) -- Charles Blair Co-Director, Digital Library Development Center chas@uchicago.edu The University of Chicago Library, JRL 220P 773 702 8459 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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