The Ontological Perspectives of the Semantic Web and the Metadata Harvesting Protocol: Applications of Metadata for Improving Web Search

• Published in: Canadian journal of information and library science Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 5 - 19
• Main Authors: Fast, Karl V, Campbell, D. Grant
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Downsview, ON Canadian Association for Information Science 01.12.2001; University of Toronto Press
• Subjects: Comparative Analysis; Data; Document Analysis; Exact sciences and technology; Indexing; Information and communication sciences; Information economics. Information policy; Information science. Documentation; Information storage & retrieval; Internet; Library and information science. General aspects; Links (Indexing); Markup languages (Computer); Metadata; Online information retrieval; Ontology; Open Archives Initiative; Political aspects : cooperation, coordination, standardization; Protocols; Sciences and techniques of general use; Search Engines; Search Strategies; Searching; Semantic Web; Semantics; Special Libraries; Web sites; World Wide Web; Semantic web; Ontology; Open archives; Harvesting; Transmission protocol; World wide web; Metadata
• ISSN: 1195-096X; 1920-7239

Compares the implied ontological frameworks of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web. Discusses current search engine technology, semantic markup, indexing principles of special libraries and online databases, and componentization and the distinction between data and documents. (Author/LRW)