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Metadata has always been important in the management of data ­collections. This chapter shows how XML can be interpreted as metadata and how XML is used for metadata, especially in support of resource management, resource discovery, and the Semantic Web. Because the data resources of the Web are huge in size, dynamic in nature, and used both by people and software applications, ­metadata resources are critical for enabling effective Web communication. Dublin Core was the first initiative to create a standard for metadata to describe Web resources. W3C later created a general metadata model, called RDF which is intended for describing and referencing resources in Web communication and includes an XML-based ­syntax. The concept of the Semantic Web was then built on the basis established by RDF and XML.

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    Airi Salminen

  2. David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Frank Tompa

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Salminen, A., Tompa, F. (2011). Metadata. In: Communicating with XML. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0992-2_6

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