id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_skrd5qwmxnchjiks425piiwh4u Jian Qin Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space: From MARC to XML 2000 5 .pdf application/pdf 3272 308 50 Representing and organizing information in libraries has a long tradition of using rules and standards. The new formats, mostly SGML/HTML based, are actively taking a role in representing and organizing networked information resources. briefly describes the historical connection between MARC and the newer formats for representing information and the current development in XML The term "metadata" refers to "machine-understandable information about Web objects" (Swick, 1997). metadata plays two important roles: as a handler (i.e., identifier) and as points of access to data/document content (Kahn XML applications for creating metadata involve a RDF "is a foundation for processing metadata; it provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to enable automated processing of Web resources." RDF uses XML as syntax to express the semantics Figure 1 to demonstrate how RDF/XML structures data elements. naming of data elements in various XML applications and ./cache/work_skrd5qwmxnchjiks425piiwh4u.pdf ./txt/work_skrd5qwmxnchjiks425piiwh4u.txt