Metadata and semantics

This is an edited volume based on the 2007 Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR), now in its second meeting. Metadata research is a pluri-disciplinary field that encompasses all aspects of the definition, creation, assessment, management and use of metadata. The volume brings together world class leaders to contribute their research and up-to-date information on metadata and semantics applied to library management, e-commerce, e-business, information science and librarianship, to name a few. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry.

• Preface p. v
• Cultural heritage and preservation
• A Hybrid Ontology and Visual-based Retrieval Model for Cultural Heritage Multimedia Collections p. 1 Stefanos Vrochidis and Charalambos Doulaverakis and Anastasios Gounaris and Evangelia Nidelkou and Lambros Makris and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
• Towards a Definition of Digital Information Preservation Object p. 11 Hugo Quisbert and Margarita Korenkova and Ann Hagerfors
• Semantic Application Profiles: A Means to Enhance Knowledge Discovery in Domain Metadata Models p. 23 Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos and George E. Paloukis and Theodore S. Papatheodorou
• Ontology for Preservation of Interactive Multimedia Performances p. 35 Kia Ng and Tran Vu Pham and Bee Ong and David Giaretta
• Metadata standards and schemes
• NCD Recommendation for the National Standard for Describing Digitised Heritage in Serbia p. 45 Zoran Ognjanovic and Tamara Butigan and Bojan Marinkovic
• The Human Art of Encoding: Markup as Documentary Practice p. 55 Paul Scifleet and Susan Williams and Creagh Cole
• Metadata for describing learning scenarios under the European Higher Education Area paradigm p. 69 Ana-Elena Guerrero and Julia Minguillon and Lourdes Guardia and Albert Sangra
• Metadata Encoding for the Levels of Scientific Research p. 81 Nikoletta Peponi and Marios Poulos and Theodoros Pappas
• Metadata Encoding for the Documents based on the Rules of Diplomatics Science p. 91 Sylvia Poulimenou and Spyros Asonitis and Marios Poulos
• Formalizing Dublin Core Application Profiles Description Set Profiles and Graph Constraints p. 101 Mikael Nilsson and Alistair J. Miles and Pete Johnston and Fredrik Enoksson
• Capturing MPEG-7 Semantics p. 113 Stamatia Dasiopoulou and Vassilis Tzouvaras and Ioannis Kompatsiaris and Michael G. Strintzis
• On the requirements of Learning Object Metadata for educators of adults' special groups p. 123 Maria Pavlis Korres
• Quality Metrics in Learning Objects p. 135 Juan F. Cervera and Maria G. Lopez and Cristina Fernandez and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso
• Metadata integration and applications
• A New Proposal for Heterogeneous Data Integration to XML format. Application to the Environment of Libraries p. 143 Ana Fermoso and Roberto Berjon and Encarnacion Beato and Montserrat Mateos and Miguel Angel Sanchez and Maria Isabe Manzano Garcia and Maria Jose Gil
• Identifying Inference Rules for Automatic Metadata Generation from Pre-existing Metadata of Related Resources p. 155 Merkourios Margaritopoulos and Isabella Kotini and Athanasios Manitsaris and Ioannis Mavridis
• Semi - automated tool for characterizing news video files, using metadata schemas p. 167 Stefanos Asonitis and Dimitris Boundas and Georgios Bokos and Marios Poulos
• Exploring aspects of scientific publishing in astrophysics and cosmology: the views of scientists p. 179 Panayiota Polydoratou and Martin Moyle
• An RDF Modification Protocol, based on the Needs of Editing Tools p. 191 Fredrik Enoksson and Matthias Palmer and Ambjorn Naeve
• Pragmatic support for taxonomy-based annotation of structured digital p. 201 Lara Whitelaw and Trevor Collins
• Encoding changing country codes for the Semantic Web with ISO 3166 and SKOS p. 211 Jakob Voss
• Improving Accuracy of Tagging Systems Using Tag Qualifiers and Tagraph Vocabulary System p. 223 Syavash Nobarany and Mona Haraty
• Ensemble Learning of Economic Taxonomy Relations from Modern Greek Corpora p. 227 Katia Lida Kermanidis
• The extension of the omnipaper system in the context of scientific publications p. 241 Teresa Pereira and Ana Alice Baptista
• Semantic Web applications
• The Semantic Web: A mythical story or a solid reality p. 253 Jorge Cardoso
• Knowledge framework supporting semantic search of learning resources p. 259 Monique Grandbastien and Benjamin Huynh-Kim-Bang and Anne Monceaux
• Ontology-based tools for the management of customers' portfolios in a deregulated electricity market environment p. 269 Niolaos Tilipakis and Christos Douligeris and Aristomenis Neris
• Semantic Navigation on the web: the LCSH case study p. 279 Ioannis Papadakis and Michalis Stefanidakis and Aikaterini Tzali
• Ontologies and Ontology-Based Applications p. 289 Panorea Gaitanou
• Semantic technologies for mobile Web and Personalized Rankings of Mobile Web Search Results p. 299 Evangelos Sakkopoulos
• A Web Classifier for Semantic Classification Between News and Sports Broadcasts p. 309 Spyros Voulgaris and Marios Poulos and Nick Kanellopoulos and Sozon Papavlasopoulos
• A semantics-based software framework for ensuring consistent access to up-to-date knowledge resources in Public Administrations p. 319 Nenad Stojanovic and Dimitris Apostolou and Spyridon Ntioudis and Gregoris Mentzas
• Legislative meta data based on semantic formal models p. 329 Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi and Carlo. Biagioli and Amedeo Cappelli and Rachele Sprugnoli and Fabrizio Turchi
• Enriching WordNet to Index and Retrieve Semantic Information p. 339 Manuela Angioni and Roberto Demontis and Franco Tuveri
• Adaptive Web Site Customization p. 353 Nikos Zotos and Sofia Stamou and Paraskevi Tzekou and Lefteris Kozanidis
• Social and Domain Knowledge Management through the Integration of Storytelling and Case Based Reasoning p. 365 Stefania Bandini and Federica Petraglia and Fabio Sartori
• Analysis of XBRL documents representing financial statements using Semantic Web Technologies p. 375 Sheila Mendez Nunez and Jose Emilio Labra Gayo and Javier de Andres Suarez and Patricia Ordonez de Pablos
• Guidelines for Web Search Engines: From Searching and Filtering to Interface p. 383 Markos Papoutsidakis and Stavroula Sampati and Ioannis Ledakis and Afroditi Sotiropoulou and Stavros Giannopoulos
• An Adaptive Complex Data Investigation Methodology using Interactive Multi-Menus p. 393 Ioannis Deliyannis and Andreas Floros and Michael Webster
• Reference Ontology Design for a Neurovascular Knowledge Network p. 403 Gianluca Colombo and Daniele Merico and Giancarlo Mauri
• Ontology engineering and related techniques
• Rules for Mapping SQL Relational Databases to OWL Ontologies p. 415 Irina Astrova
• Ontology Oriented Support for the Teaching Process in the Greek Secondary Education p. 425 V. S. Belesiotis
• A new Formal Concept Analysis based learning approach to Ontology building p. 433 Haibo Jia and Julian Newman and Huaglory Tianfield
• Agricultural metadata and semantics
• Creating and Querying an Integrated Ontology for Molecular and Phenotypic Cereals Data p. 445 Sonia Bergamaschi and Antonio Sala
• A Notification Infrastructure for Semantic Agricultural Web Services p. 455 Brahim Medjahed and William Grosky
• agroXML: Enabling Standardized, Platform-Independent Internet Data Exchange in Farm Management Information Systems p. 463 Mario Schmitz and Daniel Martini and Martin Kunisch and Hans-Jurgen Mosinger
• Comparing Different Metadata Application Profiles for Agricultural Learning Repositories p. 469 Nikos Manouselis and Gauri Salokhe and Johannes Keizer
• Using an AGROVOC-based ontology for the description of learning resources on organic agriculture p. 481 Salvador Sanchez-Alonso and Miguel-Angel Sicilia
• Using Agricultural Ontologies p. 493 Michael Maliappis
• Metadata Application Profile for Agricultural Learning Resources p. 499 Hilke Stuempel and Gauri Salokhe and Anne Aubert and Johannes Keizer and Andrew Nadeau and Stephen Katz and Stephen Rudgard
• A Distributed Architecture for Harvesting Metadata Describing Organizations in the Agriculture Sector p. 509 Valeria Pesce and Ajit Maru and Gauri Salokhe and Johannes Keizer
• Metadata and semantics for pervasive computing
• Semantic Location Based Services for Smart Spaces p. 515 Kostas Kolomvatsos and Vassilis Papataxiarhis and Vassileios Tsetsos
• How to Overcome Stumbling Blocks of Traditional Personalization Paradigms p. 527 Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez and Jose J. Pazos-Arias and Alberto Gil-Solla and Manuel Ramos-Cabrer and Martin Lopez-Nores
• A Semantic Matching Approach for Mediating Heterogeneous Sources p. 537 Michel Schneider and Lotfi Bejaoui and Guillaume Bertin