Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study. (2nd March 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Albassuny, Badawia M.
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 3:Number 4(2008)
• Page Start: 260
• Page End: 282
• Publication Date: 2009-03-02
• Subjects: metadata tools -- automatic metadata generation -- metadata extraction -- metadata harvesting -- metadata applications -- metadata analysis -- metadata conversion; 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 study is a survey of Automatic Metadata Generations Applications (AMeGAs) that are available and free on the Web. The study tested the functions as well as the features of each tool, by using a survey approach and features analysis. The results indicated that Meta Tag Generators (MTGs), which generate meta-information about the Web page, were the most available applications on the Web. Actually, they represented 89.27%. The analysing tools, which check and analyse the existing meta tags in the website, to help Webmasters optimise them, represented 6.34%. The other applications that automatically create metadata from an analysis of the digital resource such as extracting, harvesting and converting tools represented 1.46% for each tool. This study discussed the key results in addition to the future researches.