Handbook of metadata, semantics and ontologies / editor, Miguel-Angel Sicilia.

Includes bibliographical references.

Ch. I.1. Metadata research: making digital resources useful again? / Miguel-Angel Sicilia -- ch. I.2. Metadata typology and metadata uses / Eva Méndez and Seth van Hooland -- ch. I.3. The value and cost of metadata / Miltiadis D. Lytras, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia and Cristian Cechinel -- ch. I.4. Metadata quality / Xavier Ochoa -- ch. I.5. Ontologies in systems theory / Emilia Currás -- ch. II. 1. Introduction to XML and its applications / Laura Papaleo -- ch. II. 2. Ontologies and ontology languages / Sinuhé Arroyo and Katharina Siorpaes -- ch. II. 3. Topic maps / Piedad Garrido Picazo and Jesús Tramullas -- ch. II. 4. Methodologies for the creation of semantic data / Tobias Bürger, Elena Simperl and Christoph Tempich -- ch. III. 1. Metadata and ontologies in e-learning / Manuel E. Prieto Méndez, Víctor H. Menéndez Domínguez and Christian L. Vidal Castro -- ch. III. 2. Metadata and ontologies for health / Gianluca Colombo, Daniele Merico and Michaela Gündel -- ch. III. 3. Agricultural knowledge organization systems: an analysis of an indicative sample / Nikos Palavitsinis and Nikos Manouselis -- ch. III. 4. Metadata and ontologies for bioinformatics / E. Blanco -- ch. III. 5. Metadata and ontologies for mechanical objects' design and manufacturing / Fabio Sartori and Stefania Bandini -- ch. III. 6. Metadata and ontologies for emergency management / Leopoldo Santos-Santos and Tomás Aguado-Gómez -- ch. III. 7. Metadata and ontologies for tourism / Dimitris Kanellopoulos -- ch. III. 8. Metadata standards and ontologies for multimedia content / Tobias Bürger and Michael Hausenblas -- ch. IV. 1. Technologies for metadata integration and interoperability / Ricardo Eito-Brun -- ch. IV. 2. Technologies for metadata extraction / Koraljka Golub, Henk Muller and Emma Tonkin -- ch. IV. 3. Technologies for metadata and ontology storage / Mary Parmelee and Leo Obrst.

Metadata research has emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to Web resources or applications. Such associated descriptions are supposed to serve as a foundation for advanced services in many application areas, including search and location, personalization, federation of repositories and automated delivery of information. Indeed, the Semantic Web is in itself a concrete technological framework for ontology-based metadata. For example, Web-based social networking requires metadata describing people and their interrelations, and large databases with biological information use complex and detailed metadata schemas for more precise and informed search strategies. There is a wide diversity in the languages and idioms used for providing meta-descriptions, from simple structured text in metadata schemas to formal annotations using ontologies, and the technologies for storing, sharing and exploiting meta-descriptions are also diverse and evolve rapidly. In addition, there is a proliferation of schemas and standards related to metadata, resulting in a complex and moving technological landscape - hence, the need for specialized knowledge and skills in this area. The Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies is intended as an authoritative reference for students, practitioners and researchers, serving as a roadmap for the variety of metadata schemas and ontologies available in a number of key domain areas, including culture, biology, education, healthcare, engineering and library science.

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