One Tag to bind them all: Measuring Term abstractness in Social Metadata
Metadata and Meta tag
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Metadata and Meta tag
What is metadata?What does metadata do?Metadata schemesWhat is meta tag?Meta tag example
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- Metadata is commonly referred to as “data about data” or “information about information”
- It is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource
- Some use it to refer to machine understandable information, others use it only for records that describe electronic resources
What is metadata
- Librarians equate it with a complete bibliographic record- Information technologists equate it to database schema or definitions of the data elements- Archivists include context information, restrictions and access terms, index terms, etc.
What is metadata
What is metadata• Metadata does not have to be digital• Metadata relates to more than the description of an
object. • Metadata can come from a variety of sources• Metadata continue to accrue during the life of an
information object or system. • One information object's metadata can
simultaneously be another information object's data.
Descriptive metadata-describes a resource for purposes such as discovery and identification. It can include elements such as title, abstract, author, and keywordsStructural metadata-indicates how compound objects are put together. For instance, pages are ordered to form chaptersAdministrative metadata-provides information to help manage a resource, such as when and how it was created, file type, and other technical information, and who can access it
What is metadata-types
Resource discovery
- Allow resources to be found by relevant criteria- Identify resources- Bring similar resources together- Distinguish dissimilar resources- Give location information
What does metadata do?
Organizing electronic resources
- As Web based resources grow, aggregate sites or portals are useful in organizing links to resources based on audience or topic
What does metadata do?
Interoperability
- Ability of multiple systems with different hardware and software platforms, data structures, and interfaces to exchange data with minimal loss of content and functionality- network can be searches more seamlessly
What does metadata do?
Digital Identification
- Include elements such as standard numbers to uniquely identify the work or object to which the metadata refers to.
What does metadata do?
Archiving and Preservation
- Key to ensure that resources will survive and continue to be accessible into the future- Track the lineage of digital object to detail its physical characteristics, and to documents its behavior in order to emulate it on future technologies.
What does metadata do?
Metadata Schemes• Identify the purpose of the metadata model• Level of specificity of the elements• Identify resources• Infrastructure - who will supply it?• What type of information package is it?• Who will use the metadata?
Metadata Schemes-Dublin Core• Metadata to improve information retrieval of
internet resources• Developed predominantly by the bibliographic
community. Elements similar to bibliographic surrogate
• Known for simplicity, semantic interoperability, international consensus, extensibility, metadata modularity on the Web
Metadata Schemes-Dublin Core
Metadata Schemes-MODS• Stands for metadata object description
schema (MODS)• Rich description of electronic resources• Use of XML Schema language such as use of
optional ID attribute to facilitate linking at the element level
• Ability to embed a rich description of components in the related item element
Metadata Schemes-MODS
Metadata Schemes-Others• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)• Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard (METS)• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)• Learning Object Metadata (LOM)• MPEG Multimedia Metadata
Metadata Schemes-Integration• How can interoperability be ensured with so
many metadata standards?For instance, Resource Description
Framework (RDF) developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is data model to integrate multiple metadata schemes
Elements from different schemes to be combines in single resource description
Metadata Schemes
What is meta tag?• Metadata of Webpage• Provides search engines with information
about sites.• Provide information to all sorts of clients and
each system processes only the meta tags they understand and ignores the test.
• HTML codes that are inserted into the header on a web page after the title tag
• In SEO, it refers to meta description tag and the meta keywords tag
What is meta tag?
Meta tag example
Google uses description tag instead of keyword tag in web search ranking
Questions
ResourcesDefinitionshttp://www.nisopress.org/publications/press
Dublin Corehttp://www.dublincore.org/MODShttp://www.loc/gov/standards/mods/TEIhttp://www.tei-c.org/METShttp://www.loc/gov/standards/mets/EADhttp://www.loc.gov/ead
LOMhttp://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12RDFhttp://www.w3.org/RDF/