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Data & Machines, Metadata Based (cont)


  • Metadata refer to general URIs
    • one can define metadata on resources somewhere else
    • (“cataloguing services” become feasible, for example)
    • one can define metadata on resources somewhere else (“cataloguing services” become feasible, for example)
    • one can combine metadata from different sources
    • the Web can be viewed as a big database with sophisticated

      search and retrieval facilities

    • the Web can be viewed as a big database with sophisticated search and retrieval facilities

Ivan Herman, W3C 14 (25)