Book Review: Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata

Book Review: Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards

This book, Creating Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic W eb, contains a collection of articles ar ound the theme of the semantic aspects of Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures (SIIs). SIIs ar e an extension to the mor e commonly ter med Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), with the addition of the semantic aspects that turn data into information. The book has it...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Managing Metadata for Distributed Information Servers

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery systems use crawlers to search the Internet, constructing metadata from the data they nd. Instead, we propose a general distributed index architecture that uses descriptive hierarchies to organize metadata and route met...

Metadata for Content Description In Legal Information

The paper describes the Jur-Wordnet (Jur-IWN) project, whose objective is an ontology-based extension to the legal domain of the Italian version of EuroWordNet. It aims at providing both a content description model for legal information and a resource for accessing multilingual and heterogeneous information sources. Jur-IWN involves a double interpretation of the model, and of its features. Con...

Managing Metadata

The All Media Guide (AMG) is a technology company that maintains the world’s largest database of metadata relating to the entertainment industries. This document describes some of the goals of AMG, the issues uncovered during the evolution of our databases, and discusses some of the implementations we have chosen.