IAFA Templates in Use as Internet Metadata

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Dave Beckett
Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, CT2 7NF, England.
D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk
<URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/www/djb1.html>

Abstract:

Recently there has been a growing need for a metadata standard for the Internet. The files that are available on ftp and WWW sites can be difficult to search if they are enclosed in a container format (e.g. tar). and bibliographical data can be deeply embedded in documentation. This paper describes how IAFA Templates have been used in a real archive to store the metadata of lots of different types of documents and software and to derive WWW, gopher and text indices from them.

Keywords:

Metadata IAFA Templates ALIWEB SOIF Harvest

Slides:

1. Overview

2. Why Metadata?

3. Reasons for Metadata

4. Metadata Standards in 1993/4

5. IAFA Templates Overview

6. Example IAFA Template

7. Extended Example IAFA Template

8. Contents of IAFA Templates

9. Processing IAFA Templates

10. Formatted IAFA Templates

11. HTML version

12. Text and gopher versions

13. Problems with IAFA Templates

14. Future Metadata Standards

15. Overview of Metadata Standards
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16. Future Work

17. Conclusions

Index Slide: First | Last | Index

Copyright ©1995 Dave Beckett, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.