Building A Federated Digital Library: Approaches to Metadata Integration
Published: 2014
Author(s) Name: Richard Gartner |
Author(s) Affiliation: Centre for e-Research, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract
Two approaches to integrating metadata in federated digital environments are discussed, one based on semantic web
methodologies, the other on XML architectures. It is argued that it is possible to emulate the semantic flexibility of the semantic web within
XML-based schemas by using linkages to controlled vocabularies using Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs). The advantages of retaining
XML as the basis of digital library metadata remain clear, particularly when semantic linkages of this type can be integrated into XML
architectures.
Keywords: Metadata, Linked Open Data, XML, Digital Libraries
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