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Naked Metadata
Naked Metadata by Jonathan O'Donnell is an interesting concept, one that seems sound in principle. The details look OK to me, but I only skimed them.
The problem
Metadata in Web pages often doesn't get updated when the pages get updated.The solution
Tag data, and point to it from the appropriate metadata field. The metadata is 'naked'. That is, it is visible on the page, rather than being hidden in the header.
Metadata
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Geospatial Metadata Training
NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center is offering free online geospatial metadata training. Introduction to Geospatial Metadata - ISO 191** MetadataTransitioning from FGDC Metadata to ISO MetadataIntroduction to Geospatial MetadataCreating...
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Metadata Extraction
Effective Metadata Extraction from Irregularly Structured Web Content by Baoyao Zhou, Wei Liu, Yu Yang, Weichun Wang Ming Zhang, (HPL-2008-203)Metadata extraction is one crucial module for domain specific Web content discovery and management, because...
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Web Page Metadata
Google has released a study of metadata use in the pages they spider. They point out the most used ones and the most common errors.The Dublin Core people can take some comfort from the fact that although their keywords didn't appear in the top ten...
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Dublin Core
In addition to the links to RDF metadata on all pages on the DCMI Web site, we now also have embedded metadata on our pages, following the recommendation for XHTML encoding of Dublin Core metadata.They are using unqualified. It is nice to see how the...
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Metadata
Metadata for Web logs is being discussed at the Weblog MetaData Initiative or WMDI.The guiding principle behind the initiative is that by creating standards in the weblog metadata "problem space", we can enable greater collaboration and interaction between...
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