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Managing RDF Metadata for Community Webs

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Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web (ER 2000)

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The need for descriptive information, i.e., metadata, about Web resources has been recognized in several application contexts (e.g., digital libraries, portals). The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilitating the creation and exchange of metadata, as directed labeled graphs serialized in XML. In particular, the definition of schema vocabularies enables the interpretation of semistructured RDF descriptions using taxonomies of node and edge labels. In this paper, we propose (i) a formal model capturing RDF schema constructs; (ii) a declarative query language featuring generalized path expressions for taxonomies of labels (iii) a metadata management architecture for efficient storage and querying of RDF descriptions and schemas.

This work was partially supported by the European project C-Web (IST-1999- 13479).

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  1. ICS-FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, 1385, GR 711 10, Heraklion, Greece

    Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides1, Gregory Karvounarakis & Dimitris Plexousakis1

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, GR 71409, Heraklion, Greece

    Sofia Alexaki, Gregory Karvounarakis & Dimitris Plexousakis1

  3. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Robert-Mayer-Str, 11-15, 11 19 32, D-60054, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Karsten Tolle

  4. INRIA Rocquencourt, 78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Bernd Amann, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl & Anne-Marie Vercoustre4

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    Stephen W. Liddle

  2. Insitute for Business Informatics and Application Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

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  3. Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Postfach 101344, 03013, Cottbus, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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Alexaki, S. et al. (2000). Managing RDF Metadata for Community Webs. In: Liddle, S.W., Mayr, H.C., Thalheim, B. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web. ER 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1921. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45394-6_13

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