Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Intended for information managers, this collection introduces the field of metadata as practiced in e-learning, clinical health records, agriculture, bioinformatics, complex object manufacturing, emergency management, tourism, multimedia content, and libraries. The 20 contributions explore the value and cost of metadata, types of metadata schemes, metadata quality, ontologies in system theory, XML documents, semantic web languages, software for managing topic maps, methodologies for creating semantic data, technologies for metadata extraction, and ontology storage tools. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)