Metadata for the Semi-Structured Mono-Media Documents.
Ikram Amous, Anis Jedidi · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems · 2001
One of the main information retrieval problems on the Web is related to the poverty of describing and cataloguing any information type. One proposal to cope with this lack consists in introducing the metadata concept to enrich and structure information description and improve searching relevance. We propose here a contribution to extend the existing metadata by a set of metadata describing documents resulting from various media (text, image, audio and video). These metadata, structured with XML, makes it possible to model document indexing by their content and/or structure and to process them by