August 19, 2008 – 10:17 am
SCOT stands for Social Semantic Cloud of Tags. The development of this work has been supported by the Science Foundation Ireland and is based on RDF technology and open web standards.
‘The SCOT ontology provides a model for expressing the main concepts and properties required to describe information for tagging activities (e.g., users, tags, resources, etc.) on […]
Well over a decade ago we started using metadata to enable us to manage online resources. In a sense we were transferring our organisational skills and know- how from the physical environment to the online environment. And in so doing instead of saying we are cataloguing or creating records about online resources we chose terminology […]
For a long time now we have been using metadata to describe and classify resources so that others looking for then could find them. Our objective has been to create rich databases of quality resources, describe them well and provide both browse and search mechanisms for the end user to browse and search for […]
November 6, 2006 – 12:08 pm
The advent of the internet has provided us with a proliferation of online resources but has also presented us with the need to find a mechanism to enable the organisation and discovery of these resources.
DC metadata was developed primarily to assist with the discovery of information and resources. It provided a structure for the description […]
