Metadata Features in the Domain of Frameworks
Beyond using metadata for page organization (HTML/XHTML), display (CSS/XSL), or description (DC, etc) there is an additional need to use metadata to describe the metadata schemas used in creating an electronic resource.
Shelley Powers (2003) in Practical RDF suggests an analogy with relational databases which states that the database software program which allows the same table, field, record, value structure to be used for any configuration of unique labels, values, and relationships (ie. Persons: Name: 01= “Heather”) is basically how Resource Description Framework (RDF) provides the underlying structure which allows the same element, attribute and value structure (ie. ) to be described and interrelated (¶5.2.2.). RDF is like MS Access, not Clients.mdb.
The issue of frameworks or containers for metadata schemes is also closely tied to a longstanding desire to create a semantic or ontological web (Lagoze, Lynch & Daniel, 1996, p.2).......
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