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Abstract:
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As the Internet became an accepted source of electronic information, a variety of
information communities have developed metadata to organize these resources to
effectively serve their users. So metadata has taken on a more significant role of
knowledge representation and data mining. In today's context, where the web contains
the collection of massive heterogeneous objects, which need to be unified and linked in a
single resource, we are witnessing both the growth of different metadata standards and
the attempts to reconcile the common attributes in the existing overlapping standards. The goal is to access relevant information seamlessly, regardless of its type and location. This article addresses different aspects of metadata, the rationale behind it and gives a general picture of Dublin Core metadata elements. |