• DocumentCode
    1416782
  • Title

    Web metadata: a matter of semantics

  • Author

    Lassila, Ora

  • Author_Institution
    Nokia Res. Center, Espoo, Finland
  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    30
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    The sheer volume of information can make searching the Web frustrating. The paper considers how the Resource Description Framework, with its focus on machine-understandable semantics, has the potential for saving time and yielding more accurate search results. RDF, a foundation for processing metadata, provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine understandable information on the Web
  • Keywords
    Internet; data handling; information retrieval; Internet; Resource Description Framework; Web metadata; World Wide Web; interoperability; machine-understandable semantics; searching; Application software; Computer industry; Internet; Libraries; Pain; Resource description framework; Search engines; Surges; Web sites; XML;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4236.707688
  • Filename
    707688