#21618
Beyond Text and Graphics: XML Makes Web Pages Function Like Applications 
XML is displacing the traditional 'web page'--generally a static document, created with HTML. Most traditional web pages offer only slim interactivity and rely on an overworked server and CGI script. XML is promoting the concept of a 'weblication' (web application) that can work wonders on the web client without generating so much Internet traffic.
Freter, Todd. Sun Microsystems (1998). Design>Web Design>Metadata>XML
#21278
Building a Metadata-Based Website
The online world has been flooded in recent years with talk of metadata, structured authoring, and cascading style sheets. The idea of a semantic web is gaining momentum. At the confluence of these two broad categories of activity, new models of websites are emerging.
Lider, Brett and Anca Mosoiu. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#14913
In the information age it is widely understood that there is now too much information. Some of this newly created information will most certainly be valuable, but despite marked improvement in search tools, finding the valuable information is a slow panhandle. Perhaps in light of this situation, the W3C under the direction of Berners-Lee has begun to build the foundation for the next phase of the web. This phase, called the Semantic Web, will make information stored with this technology much more processible by machines.
Emonds-Banfield, Peter. Orange Journal, The (2002). Articles>Web Design>XML>Metadata
#21281
Once upon a time, we were curious and everything we encountered was new. We were excited about discovering new things and the world offered unlimited possibilities. Then we went to school and were taught to color inside the lines, that everything had its place and the world was ordered.
Malone, Erin. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Articles>Web Design>Instructional Design>Metadata
#21280
Creating a Controlled Vocabulary
You have probably heard information architects discussing the benefits of their latest taxonomy project and how you should be implementing one. But how, you might wonder, can you get started? In the next installment about Controlled Vocabularies, our authors go into detail about one methodology.
Fast, Karl, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Metadata>Controlled Vocabulary
#11730
Defining an XML Document Model with a DTD
An XML document is considered 'well written' when its syntax is correct, and 'valid' when it respects a document model. While a document must be 'well written,' it does not necessarily have to be 'valid.' However, as XML is a meta language, there are an infinite number of XML formats, and most XML documents should respect a particular document model, which can be defined in one of two ways: By a Document Type Definition (DTD); By an XML Schema. In this article, we are going to look at how you should go about implementing the former, using a DTD.
Gallard, Samuel. Intranet Journal. Design>Web Design>XML>Metadata
#23115
Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy
In content metadata and hierarchies, you will often find a goldmine of implicit and explicit data that you can leverage to creatively contextualize content. After a brief introduction on taxonomy and metadata, this article focuses on finding and utilizing such relationships in hierarchies.
Ricci, Christian. Boxes and Arrows (2004). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#31510
Little things mean a lot. Especially online. Microcontent—or the headlines, decks, subheads and other 'small' pieces of web copy—actually do most of the communicating on your web site. Handled poorly, microcontent can confuse and frustrate web visitors. Here's how to write microcontent to communicate to—instead of discombobulate—your readers.
Wylie, Ann. Communication World Bulletin (2004). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Metadata
#23952
Plusieurs éléments 'méta', c'est-à-dire ne faisant pas directement partie du corps de votre texte, ont néanmoins une importance tout à fait particulière dans le référencement de votre site. Ces éléments sont, en effet, pris en compte en priorité par les moteurs de recherche, lesquels sont responsables d'une bonne partie de votre fréquentation.
#19259
An Evaluation of Document Keyphrase Sets 
Keywords and keyphrases have many useful roles as document surrogates and descriptors, but the manual production of keyphrase metadata for large digital library collections is at best expensive and time-consuming, and at worst logistically impossible. Algorithms for keyphrase extraction like Kea and Extractor produce a set of phrases that are associated with a document. Though these sets are often utilized as a group, keyphrase extraction is usually evaluated by measuring the quality of individual keyphrases. This paper reports an assessment that asks human assessors to rate entire sets of keyphrases produced by Kea, Extractor and document authors. The results provide further evidence that human assessors rate all three sources highly (with some caveats), but show that the relationship between the quality of the phrases in a set and the set as a whole is not always simple. Choosing the best individual phrases will not necessarily produce the best set; combinations of lesser phrases may result in better overall quality.
Jones, Steve and Gordon W. Paynter. Journal of Digital Information (2003). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#23098
Automated classification tools can't solve today's large-scale web and intranet indexing challenges alone. Neither can humans. But solutions that integrate human expertise with software products such as Interwoven's Metatagger and Autonomy's Categorizer can provide real value and savings. After a brief introduction to automated classification, this white paper discusses the benefits and limitations of manual, automated, and hybrid approaches. It explores the opportunities for leveraging controlled vocabularies and thesauri to produce more effective indexing solutions.
Hagedorn, Kat. DLib Magazine (2001). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#18723
FacetMap is both a data model and a software package, created to let users browse complex metadata while retaining a simple, familiar, menu interface.
FacetMap (2003). Design>Information Design>Metadata>Web Design
#18977
Hypermedia and the Semantic Web: A Research Agenda
Until recently, the Semantic Web was little more than a name for the next-generation Web infrastructure as envisioned by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. With the introduction of XML and RDF, and new developments such as RDF Schema and DAML+OIL, the Semantic Web is rapidly taking shape. This paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in Semantic Web technology, the key relationships with traditional hypermedia research, and a comprehensive reference list to various sets of literature (hypertext, Web and Semantic Web). A research agenda describes the open research issues in the development of the Semantic Web from the perspective of hypermedia research.
van Ossenbruggen, Jacco, Lynda Hardman and Lloyd Rutledge. Journal of Digital Information (2003). Articles>Web Design>Metadata>Semantic
#12981
Introduction to XML: Fixing the Web
What's wrong with the Web and how can the new XML technology fix it? This XML introduction is geared toward newcomers who have heard the buzz, but don't know what all the fuss is about. The article briefly surveys a number of new Web technologies such as XLL, XSL, RDF, DOM, MathML, SMIL, PGML, and how they relate to XML. Benefits of XML are stressed, as are potential applications in diverse fields. A reference section provides links to key XML resources, as well as to collections of other introductory articles.
Sall, Ken. Intranet Journal (2001). Design>Web Design>XML>Metadata
#22562
The keyword selection process is not a short task. It takes an intimate knowledge of your market. In fact, choosing the right or wrong keywords could be the difference between your site being found by the search engines or remaining forever in search engine oblivion.
Reyen, Melissa. Publish (2004). Design>Web Design>Metadata>Search
#27519
The keywords and phrases you use in your Meta description tag don't affect your page's ranking in the search engines (for the most part), but this tag can still come in handy in your overall SEO campaigns.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2004). Articles>Web Design>Metadata>Search Engine Optimization
#21202
Meta Tags: What Are They and Which Search Engines Use Them?
Defining Meta Tags is much easier than explaining how they are used, and by which engines.
Zwicky, Richard. Metamend (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Metadata
#26268
An information worksheet for designers developing metadata schemas for web design projects.
GotoMedia (2004). Design>Web Design>Metadata
#18309
This article provides an overview of work completed at Tsinghua University Library in which a metadata framework was developed to aid in the preservation of digital resources. The metadata framework is used for the creation of metadata to describe resources, and includes an encoding standard used to store metadata and resource structures in information systems. The author points out that the Tsinghua University Library metadata framework provides a successful digital preservation solution that may be an appropriate solution for other organizations as well.
Niu, Jinfang. D-Lib Magazine (2002). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>Metadata
#23202
Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification and Search
The integration of taxonomy, classification, and search is covered in this article. The author reviews several possible software solutions.
Morris, Jeff. Transform (2003). Design>Web Design>Metadata
#21597
The Semantic Web is a conceptual information space in which the resources identified by URIs can be processed by machines. It operates on the principles of 'partial understanding' and 'inference' (being able to infer new knowledge of terms from data that you already understand), and hence evolution and transformation. Because the URIs are being used to represent the resources, systems can grow on a globally decentralized basis, similar to hypertext documentation systems on the early WWW.
Palmer, Sean B. InfoMesh (2001). Articles>Web Design>Semantic>Metadata
#19256
Towards a Core Ontology for Information Integration
In this paper, we argue that a core ontology is one of the key building blocks necessary to enable the scalable assimilation of information from diverse sources. A complete and extensible ontology that expresses the basic concepts that are common across a variety of domains and can provide the basis for specialization into domain-specific concepts and vocabularies, is essential for well-defined mappings between domain-specific knowledge representations (i.e. metadata vocabularies) and the subsequent building of a variety of services such as cross-domain searching, browsing, data mining and knowledge extraction. This paper describes the results of a series of three workshops held in 2001 and 2002 which brought together representatives from the cultural heritage and digital library communities with the goal of harmonizing their knowledge perspectives and producing a core ontology. The knowledge perspectives of these two communities were represented by the CIDOC/CRM, an ontology for information exchange in the cultural heritage and museum community, and the ABC ontology, a model for the exchange and integration of digital library information. This paper describes the mediation process between these two different knowledge biases and the results of this mediation - the harmonization of the ABC and CIDOC/CRM ontologies, which we believe may provide a useful basis for information integration in the wider scope of the involved communities.
Doerr, Martin, Jane Hunter and Carl Lagoze. Journal of Digital information (2003). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#26136
I have long wondered why government web sites all over the world tend to use metadata of several different types jumbled together and overlapping. For example, pages with two description metatags or two or three title tags are common. I suspect that most of the replication and confusion has developed for historical reasons.
McAlpine, Rachel. Quality Web Content (2005). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#21286
Unraveling the Mysteries of Metadata and Taxonomies
Recently Boxes and Arrows caught up with Samantha Bailey, formerly at Argus and current lead IA for Wachovia Corporation's Wachovia.com website. She talks about the transition from being a consultant to an 'innie' IA, unravels the mysteries of metadata and taxonomies and shares her vision of the future of IA.
Wodtke, Christina. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata
#28145
Use Product and Service Names as Keywords on Your Web Pages
I am quite surprised by what I have learned about the effectiveness of product names as organic search keywords.
Usborne, Nick. Excess Voice (2006). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Metadata
