Wrox Press: Professional XML Metadata

Bibliographic information

Professional XML Metadata. By Kal Ahmed, Danny Ayers, Mark Birbeck, Jay Cousins, David Dodds, Joshua Lubell, Miloslav Nic, Daniel Rivers-Moore, Andrew Watt, Rob Worden, and Ann Wrightson. Wrox Programmer to Programmer Series. Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press Ltd., 2001. Extent: x + 568 pages. ISBN: 1-861004-51-6.

Topics

Professional XML Meta Data covers:

How DTDs and XML Schemas can be used for resource discovery
The latest developments in XML querying and linking
RDF Syntax, Model, and Schema put into practice
How to build, share, and process XTM topic maps
Initiatives such as Meaning Definition Language and Schematron
Concepts behind more sophisticated search engines based on inferencing
Extracting and using meta data to enhance utility of databases
Designing XML meta data vocabularies to describe discrete processes

Professional XML Meta Data: Table of Contents

Main Presentation
Chapter 1 Why Meta Data? Why XML?
Chapter 2 XML Schemas
Chapter 3 XML Linking and Querying
Chapter 4 RDF Model and Syntax
Chapter 5 RDF Schema
Chapter 6 Parsing RDF
Chapter 7 Topic Maps and XTM
Chapter 8 Meaning Definition Language
Chapter 9 Meta Data Architectures
Chapter 10 Processing Techniques for MetaData
Chapter 11 Further Topic Map/RDF Developments
Chapter 12 Exposing Relational Databases
Chapter 13 Meta Data Validation - Schematron
Chapter 14 Process Descriptions
Chapter 15 Inferencing Systems
Chapter 16 Advanced Meta Data Use Cases
Appendices
Appendix A Glossary
Appendix B Resources

Overview

[From the publisher]

As we have an increasing amount of information available in electronic formats, we need a way of dealing with and managing the volume of data we store and exchange. To help us do this we can use meta data, which is simply data about data. XML's extensibility and interoperability make it an ideal format for meta data that is part of a scheme of sharing data between multiple sources. As concepts such as 'the semantic web' and web services move closer to reality, a knowledge of meta data and how to use it will be of huge advantage.

There have been a number of recent developments in the field of XML meta data, and Professional XML Meta Data takes a look at some of the initiatives at the bleeding edge of the XML meta data world. In this book you will see how schemas, topic maps, RDF, and inferencing can be put to use in the field of data description, discovery, and exchange.

This book is for developers who are familiar with basic XML concepts and are seeking new methods for building data/process descriptions, resource discovery/retrieval, and exchanging/sharing information. Many of the topics covered are pioneering technologies that will soon be implemented in the mainstream - if you want to get ahead of the game and learn about tomorrow's technologies today then this book is for you.

References

Wrox Press publishes a broad range of books on XML-related domains, including books on .NET, Access, ADO, ASP, C++/VC++/C#, COM and COM+, Data Access, Database, GNU/Linux, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Mobile/Wireless, Office, Oracle, Site Server, SQL, SQL Server, UML, VBA, Visual Basic, WAP, XML and Scripting.

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