From Interoperability to Harmonization in Metadata Standardization: Designing an Evolvable Framework for Metadata Harmonization [Doctoral Thesis]

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2010Author
Nilsson, Mikael
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223pp.
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Metadata is an increasingly central tool in the current web environment, enabling large-scale, distributed management of resources. Recent years has seen a growth in interaction between previously relatively isolated metadata communities, driven by a need for cross-domain collaboration
and exchange. However, metadata standards have not been able to meet the needs of interoperability between independent standardization communities. For this reason the notion of metadata
harmonization, defined as interoperability of combinations of metadata specifications, has risen
as a core issue for the future of web-based metadata.
This thesis presents a solution-oriented analysis of current issues in metadata harmonization. A
set of widely used metadata specifications in the domains of learning technology, libraries and
the general web environment have been chosen as targets for the analysis, with a special focus on
Dublin Core, IEEE LOM and RDF. Through active participation in several met.....
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KTH School of Computer Science and CommunicationStockholm, Sweden
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enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14.AMaturity Level
TRL 2 Technology concept and/or application formulatedBest Practice Type
Best PracticeManual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)
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Nilsson, M. (2010) From Interoperability to Harmonization in Metadata Standardization: Designing an Evolvable Framework for Metadata Harmonization. KTH School of Computer Science and Communication Stockholm, Doctoral Thesis, 223pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-746Collections