Models and Metadata: the Role of XML in Enterprise Development

This talk describes a new approach to rapid application development using patterns, frameworks and modeling languages based on XML. It explains why earlier model driven paradigms failed, and shares insights from commercial tool development experiences. Then, it shows how models based on XML are being used to automate large parts of the software development life cycle.

Greenfield, Jack. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Information Design>XML>Metadata

The Atom API: Publishing Web Content with XML and HTTP

The Atom API is an emerging interface for editing content. The interface is RESTful and uses XML and HTTP to define an editing scheme that's easy to implement and extend. History, basic operation, and applications to areas outside weblogs will be covered.

Gregorio, Joe. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Web Design>Metadata>RSS

XML and the Many Metamodels of Enterprise Metadata

Enterprise metadata appears in many languages and formats. XML provides a standard and consistent language for metadata, simplifying both interchange and parsing. But simply storing metadata as an XML file (be it XSD, BPEL, WSDL, J2EE EJB descriptors files, or any of dozens of proprietary formats) does not automatically and formally capture the full richness of the given metadata language. Even if XSDs are used to constrain syntax, they cannot define all possible structures and relationships, nor can they express the meaning of metadata in its business context.

Borenstein, Joram and Joshua Fox. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>XML

Classifying Web Sites  

In this paper, we present a novel method for the classification of Web sites. This method exploits both structure and content of Web sites in order to discern their functionality. It allows for distinguishing between eight of the most relevant functional classes of Web sites. We show that a pre-classification of Web sites utilizing structural properties considerably improves a subsequent textual classification with standard techniques. We evaluate this approach on a dataset comprising more than 16,000 Web sites with about 20 million crawled and 100 million known Web pages. Our approach achieves an accuracy of 92% for the coarse-grained classification of these Web sites.

Lindemann, Christoph and Lars Littig. WWW 2007 (2007). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata

XMP Primer

Metadata has become in past few years the key element in the world of intellectual property creation and management. Most digital asset and content management system vendors now define their product by its ability to support custom metadata and in particulary Adobe’s XMP metadata technology. Besides being an excellent organizational tool, metadata is the essence of advertising, packaging and medical/financial/governmental record keeping and more. Every time we complete a form, we do so with metadata values in the form fields. Our Internet searches start with metadata keywords and end with information wrapped around and associated with those keywords.

Roszkiewicz, Ron. IDEAlliance (2009). Articles>Information Design>Taxonomy>Metadata

Introduction to RDFa

The web is designed to be consumed by humans, and much of the rich, useful information our websites contain, is inaccessible to machines. People can cope with all sorts of variations in layout, spelling, capitalization, color, position, and so on, and still absorb the intended meaning from the page. Machines, on the other hand, need some help. A new kind of web—a semantic web—would be made up of information marked up in such a way that software can also easily understand it. Before considering how we might achieve such a web, let’s look at what we might be able to do with it.

Birbeck, Mark. List Apart, A (2009). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Metadata