State of the art on methodologies for the development of a metadata application profile. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Curado Malta, Mariana; Baptista, Ana Alice
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 8:Number 4(2013)
• Page Start: 332
• Page End: 341
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: metadata -- application profile -- application profile development -- semantics -- semantic web -- methodologies -- methods -- interoperability; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

This paper presents the state of the art on methods for the development of a metadata application profile (AP). For this purpose we perform searches in scientific online databases and made other efforts such as global searches on the web and calls on the mailing lists of the metadata communities to find information about AP development and metadata best practices or methods for the development of AP. These searches produced 21 items of which nine have information on how the AP is developed. As a result of this analysis, we came up with small formulas or specific recipes for very particular phases of the process, but none is described in detail. We have also come up with guidelines that were too global and not sufficiently detailed for the AP development. As far as we could determine, there is no comprehensive methodological support for a metadata application profile development.