A Bi-directional Semantic Framework for Bibliographic Metadata

Often in a research community there are several different metadata standards used to describe the same type of objects. In this paper we explore using an RDF/XML (Resource Description Framework) framework to address this issue, and create a flexible, reusable solution that can adapt to new metadata standards. We create a semantic framework that contains multiple metadata views of the objects that we wish to describe. The framework is established by creating ontologies for each metadata representation of these objects, and rule-based crosswalks between them so that each object is expressed in all representations, thus all objects can be viewed in multiple systems. For our case study, we chose bibliographic references.