Knowledge-intensive applications pose new challenges to metadata management, including distribution, access control, uniformity of access, and evolution in time. The authors identify general requirements for metadata management and describe a simple model and service that focuses on RDF metadata to address these requirements.
Index Terms:
semantic overlay infrastructure, peer-to-peer, data independence, query reformulation, knowledge management
Citation:
Paolo Missier, Pinar Alper, Óscar Corcho, Ian Dunlop, Carole Goble, "Requirements and Services for Metadata Management," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 17-25, Sep./Oct. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.113