Rethinking Metadata: Semantic Proposal for Future

Abstract

This paper starts with describing Metadata and subsequently proposes a linked open metadata model which can unearth vast firsthand knowledge hidden in the deep layer of various libraries of the world. The benefit of the model can be multipronged. It can help generate new knowledge as in many cases of cultural artifacts we do not have any account which describe the same except for the metadata that attaches with it.Metadata can also be tailor made to serve the purpose of distant reading of large corpus of literary resources of human civilization. Finally vernacular metadata schema can help in spreading knowledge while serving community information requirement.