Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data A Metadata-based Approach /

• Main Authors: Kashyap, Vipul. (Author), Sheth, Amit. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: Advances in Database Systems, 20
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; E-commerce.; Computer Science.; e-Commerce/e-business.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Multimedia Information Systems.
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Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies. On the heels of information integration and interoperability, this book on information brokering discusses the next step in infor...

Table of Contents:

• Metadata and Ontologies
• Metadata-Based Architectures for Information Brokering
• Metadata-based Brokering for Digital Data
• Capturing Information Content in Structured Data
• The Infosleuth System
• Vocabulary Brokering in the Observer System
• An Illustrative Example
• Related Work
• Conclusion.