A Data Category Registry- and Component-based Metadata Framework
Daan Broeder, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Dieter Van Uytvanck, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter Withers, Peter Wittenburg, Claus Zinn · 2010
We describe our computer-supported framework to overcome the rule of metadata schism.It combines the use of controlled vocabularies, managed by a data category registry, with a component-based approach, where the categories can be combined to yield complex metadata structures.A metadata scheme devised in this way will thus be grounded in its use of categories.Schema designers will profit from existing prefabricated larger building blocks, motivating re-use at a larger scale.The common base of any two metadata schemes within this framework will solve, at least to a good extent, the semantic interoperability problem, and consequently, further promote systematic use of metadata for existing resources and tools to be shared.