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A variety of applications have been developed in order to engage with society. These tools have enabled computer scientists to captured large sets of unstructured data for machine learning and make the information widely available in academia. Techniques for Coding Imagery and Multimedia: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source featuring the latest scholarly research on ways researchers code imagery and multimedia for research purposes, as well as describe some of the applied methods for research value. Including coverage on a wide variety of topics such as linguistic analysis, gender communication, and mass surveillance, this book is an important resource for researchers, academics, graduate students, and professionals seeking current research on best ways to globally expand multimedia research and imagery.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the world of metadata, from its origins in the ancient cities of the Middle East, to the Semantic Web of today. The author takes us on a journey through the centuries-old history of metadata up to the modern world of crowdsourcing and Google, showing how metadata works and what it is made of. The author explores how it has been used ideologically and how it can never be objective. He argues how central it is to human cultures and the way they develop. Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web is for all readers with an interest in how we humans organize our knowledge and why this is important. It is suitable for those new to the subject as well as those know its basics. It also makes an excellent introduction for students of information science and librarianship.

There has never been a XML Guide like this. XML 83 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of XML. Instead, it answers the top 83 questions that we are asked and those we come across in our forums, consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This comprehensive guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces everything you want to know to be successful with XML. A quick look inside of the subjects covered: The Twitter Local: Its Definition and its Scope, SQL server business intelligence relies on relational database management to access data based on ta, The Disadvantages of SOA, Microsoft Office Access, MDA Standards - Introduction, What is SOAP? - Sun Certified Java Associates, Metadata in Today's Digital Libraries, What are the most common terms used in XML? - Sun Certified Java Associates, Intelliden: The Leading Configuration Management Solution In The Industry Today, SOA Software, Distinguishing Web Applications, Introducing Applications on the Web, Zoho Office Suite, Salient features and uses of visual studio enterprise architect (VSEA), Web 2.0: Data Open Sharing Is the Trend, What is Universal Description Discovery and Integration? - Sun Certified Java Associates, Standards Applied on Metadata Formats, Describing the ESB SOA relationship, Understanding the Basic Usage of XML Metadata, Service Oriented Architecture: Creating Working Gibberish into Simplicity., Repositories vs. Registries, XML/XHTML, Mojo Helpdesk, The History of SQL Server Software, The Advantages of Using WordPress Google Sitemap, Uses of Metadata Repository, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition offers High-end database solutions., The Scenes behind Metadata Extract, MCTIP Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database: Making MCTIP Examination a Cinch, Special Features, Preparing Reports Using SQL Server Reporting Services, What is the goal of XML? - Citrix Xen Server, Populating the Metadata Repository, File Formats and Metadata, Types of Mashups, RFID and Object Tracking, Smart Solutions from Fuego Business Process Management, SOA Walkthrough, Metadata Storage, Types of CMS, Model-Driven Architecture Introduction, MS SQL Server 2005: Codenamed Yukon, Enterprise Content Management, Learning to Understand XMP Metadata, What are the tests included into the feature of Health Monitoring and Recovery? - Citrix XenDesktop 4, SOA: A Whole New Way of Doing Programming, Technologies: Microsoft Office XML Formats, and much more...

There has never been a Extensible Markup Language Guide like this. Extensible Markup Language 20 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Extensible Markup Language. Instead, it answers the top 20 questions that we are asked and those we come across in our forums, consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This comprehensive guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces everything you want to know to be successful with Extensible Markup Language. A quick look inside of the subjects covered: The Scripts that provide Structure to Web 2.0, Preserve, XML/XHTML, A comprehensive study about LOM Metadata, The SQL Server 2005 and its Reporting Service, The All New MS SQL Server 2008 Service Pack, Learning to Understand XMP Metadata, ECM Components, Understanding the Basic Usage of XML Metadata, The Fundamentals of RDF Metadata, XML SQL Server: Fusion of Two Useful Concepts in Data Management and Delivery, XMI Metadata Interchange, What is XML / XHTML? - Sun Certified Java Associates, Common Terminology, Delving into Access APIs, An Effective Tool known as Metadata Extraction Tool, What is the goal of XML? - Citrix Xen Server, Creating a Page Banner using the Web 2.0, MS SQL Server 2005: Codenamed Yukon, A Close Encounter with Google Adwords API, and much more...

In The Essential Guide to Metadata for Books, you will learn exactly what you need to know to effectively generate, handle and disseminate metadata for books and ebooks. This comprehensive but digestible document will explain the life-cycle of book metadata, industry standards, XML, ONIX and the essential elements of metadata. It will also show you how effective, well-organized metadata can improve your efforts to sell a book, especially when it comes to marketing, discoverability and converting at the point of sale. This information-packed document also includes a glossary of terms and points you in the direction of where you can learn more. Some of the information from this document comes from The Metadata Handbook by Renee Register and Thad McIlroy, a longer guide.

Here you'll find one key to the development of a successful information system: Clearly capture and communicate both the abstract and concrete building blocks of data that describe your organization. In 1995, David Hay published Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought - the groundbreaking book on how to use standard data models to describe the standard business situations. Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World builds on the concepts presented there, adds 15 years of practical experience, and presents a more comprehensive view. You will learn how to apply both the abstract and concrete elements of your enterprise's architectural data model through four levels of abstraction: Level 0: An abstract template that underlies the Level 1 model that follows, plus two meta models: • Information Resources. In addition to books, articles, and e-mail notes, it also includes photographs, videos, and sound recordings. • Accounting. Accounting is remarkable because it is itself a modeling language. It takes a very different approach than data modelers in that instead of using entities and entity classes that represent things in the world, it is concerned with accounts that represent bits of value to the organization. Level 1: An enterprise model that is generic enough to apply to any company or government agency, but concrete enough to be readily understood by all. It describes: • People and Organization. Who is involved with the business? The people involved are not only the employees within the organization, but customers, agents, and others with whom the organization comes in contact. Organizations of interest include the enterprise itself and its own internal departments, as well as customers, competitors, government agencies, and the like. • Geographic Locations. Where is business conducted? A geographic location may be either a geographic area (defined as any bounded area on the Earth), a geographic point (used to identify a particular location), or, if you are an oil company for example, a geographic solid (such as an oil reserve). • Assets. What tangible items are used to carry out the business? These are any physical things that are manipulated, sometimes as products, but also as the means to producing products and services. • Activities. How is the business carried out? This model not only covers services offered, but also projects and any other kinds of activities. In addition, the model describes the events that cause activities to happen. • Time. All data is positioned in time, but some more than others. Level 2: A more detailed model describing specific functional areas: • Facilities • Human Resources • Communications and Marketing • Contracts • Manufacturing • The Laboratory Level 3: Examples of the details a model can have to address what is truly unique in a particular industry. Here you see how to address the unique bits in areas as diverse as: • Criminal Justice. The model presented here is based on the “Global Justice XML Data Model” (GJXDM). • Microbiology • Banking. The model presented here is the result of working for four different banks and then adding some thought to come up with something different from what is currently in any of them. • Highways. The model here is derived from a project in a Canadian Provincial Highway Department, and addresses the question “what is a road?”

Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists'Books Online to the as yet unrealized'Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker's contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

Financial services institutions like international banks and insurance companies frequently need to adapt to changes in their environments, yet manage risk and ensure regulatory compliance. The author Hans Wegener reveals how metadata can be used to achieve a successful and technological evolution. This unique approach is divided into three parts to: Explain how metadata can be used to increase an organization's ability to adopt changes Outline the peculiarities of financial corporations and how they affect value creation and solution design Present the practical side of effectively managing metadata and sustaining long term success Wegener firstly illustrates the peculiarities of both metadata management and the financial services industry. He combines both, puts them into context of use, and explains where and how this makes life difficult, as well as where and how value is created. This enables the reader to understand the impact of metadata management on his/her organization, its typical side effects, necessities, and benefits. The book then goes onto reveal how different crosscutting concerns managed in large financial corporations (change, risk, and compliance management) can revolutionize business by supporting them with metadata management. This provides a blueprint to be used in strategic planning. Finally, the mechanics of three important practical areas are discussed in-depth, namely managing evolution, quality, and sustainability. This provides helpful scripts for practitioners to be used in real-life.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions.Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects.The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF/XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF's data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF/XML.If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.