GLOBALIZATION OF INFORMATION
HIGHWAYS AND THE NEED FOR NEW
FORMS OF WEBDATA AND
METADATA
Prepared by: Dusan Soltes, Faculty of
Management, Comenius University,
Bratislava, Slovakia
INTRODUCTION
I
DATA ANALYSIS AND/OR ANATOMY
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FOR METADATA ON THE WEB
COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
I - DATA
I - INFORMATION
I - PEOPLE
I - HARDWARE
I - SOFTWARE
I - ORGWARE
I -...
DATA/INFORMATION
I - THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF ANY
IS
I - DATA IS THE PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OF
INFORMATION REFLECTING THE REAL WORLD
I - INFORMATION IS THE SEMANTIC CONTENT OF
DATA AND INFORMS ABOUT THE PHENOMENA
AND PROCESSES OF THE REAL WORLD
TYPOLOGY OF DATA/INFORMATION
I PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION:
I - BIT
I - BYTE
I - WORD/ITEM
I - RECORD
I - FILE
I - DATA BASE
- DATA WAREHOUSE
- WEB DATA
DATA BY LOCATION
I - PHYSICALLY LOCATED
I - VIRTUAL (WEB)
DATA FUNCTIONS
I - IDENTIFICATION
I - CLASSIFICATION
I - QUANTIFICATION
I - DESCRIPTION
I - AUDIO/VIDEO PRESENTATION
I - MULTIMEDIAL PRESENTATION
TYPOLOGY OF DATA
I - NUMERICAL
I - ALPHABETIC
- AUDIO
- MULTIMEDIAL
I - ALPHA-NUMERIC
I - TEXTUAL/RICH TEXT/HYPER TEXT
I - GRAPHICAL
I - GEOGRAPHIC/SPATIAL
I - VIDEO
DATA SEMANTICS
- STATISTICAL
I - PLANNING
I - FINANCIAL
I - ACCOUNTING
I - MARKETING
I - COMMERCIAL
I - BUSINESS
I - EDUCATION
I
- KNOWLEDGE
- E- …
DATA TIME CHARACTERISTICS
I - REAL TIME
I - CURRENT
I - HISTORICAL
I - ARCHIVE
I - PROGNOSTIC
I - PLANNING
I - FUTURISTIC
FORMS OF DATA HOLDINGS
I - DATA FILE/SET
I - TIME SERIE
I - REGISTER
I - CLASSIFICATION
I - NOMENCLATURE
I - CODE-LIST
I - AUDIO FILE
- VIDEO FILE
- MULTIMEDIA FILE
- TEXTUAL FILE
- MAP
- ANIMATION
ORGANIZATION OF DATA
I - SERIAL
I - SEQUENTIAL
I - INDEX-SEQUENTIAL
I - HIERARCHICAL
I - NETWORK
I - RELATIONAL
I - MULTIDIMENSIONAL
- HASH
- FUZZY
DATA ACCESS, PRIVACY,
CONFIDENTIALITY
I - PUBLIC/OPEN
I - RESTRICTED
I - CONFIDENTIAL
I - SECRET
I - TOP SECRET
I-…
- INTERNET/WEB BASED
- EXTRANET
- INTRANET
- LOCAL NET
- NON-NET
-…
DATA LEVELS
I - MICRODATA
I - MACRODATA
I - ORIGINAL
I - DERIVED
I - INDIVIDUAL
I - AGGREGATED
METADATA - METAINFORMATION
I - METADATA IS THE PHYSICAL
REPRESENTATION OF METAINFORMATION AND
IS A DESCRIPTION OF DATA
I - METAINFORMATION IS THE SEMANTIC
CONTENT OF METADATA AND INFORMS ABOUT
INFORMATION
TYPES OF METADATA
- DOCUMENT ORIENTED
I - OBJECT ORIENTED
I - MACRO
I - MICRO
I - LOCAL
I - GLOBAL
I - CLASSIFICATION
I - CONCEPTUAL
I - OPERATIONAL
I - ORGANIZATIONAL
I
- SEMANTICAL
- TECHNICAL
- INFOLOGICAL
- DATALOGICAL
METADATA HOLDINGS
- CATALOGUE
I - DICTIONARY
I - DIRECTORY
I - GLOSSARY
I - THESAURUS
I - REGISTER
I - CLASSIFICATION
I - CODE-LIST
I - NOMENCLATURE
I - METADATA BASE
I
- METADATA WAREHOUSE
- METADATA WWW
METADATA OBJECTS (STATISTICS)
I - INDICATORS
- STATISTICAL
POPULATIONS
I - FORMS/SURVEYS
- STATISTICAL UNITS
I - PUBLICATIONS
- CLASSIFICATIONS
I - FILES
- NOMENCLATURES
I - OUTPUT TABLES
- CODE-LISTS
I - TIME-SERIES
- PHENOMENAS
I - ALGORITHMS
METADATA FUNCTIONS
I - INFORMATION
I - DOCUMENTATION
I - INTERPRETATION
I - NAVIGATION
I - SERCHING
I - ORIENTATION
I - RETRIEVAL
- PROCESSING
- PRESENTATION
- UTILIZATION
- INTEGRATION
- COMARISON
- RATIONALIZATION
- GLOBALIZATION
METADATA MODELS, TOOLS,
METHODS, STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS
- ISO/IEC 11179
I - UML
I - MDA
I - XML/XMI
I - DDI
I - CWM
I - ESPLORIS
I - INFOLOGIC
I
- SIDI/SDOSIS
- METIS
- GESMES
- NESSTAR
- CLAMOUR
- METANET
- MOF
- DATALOGIC
METADATA MODELS, TOOLS, …
(CONT.)
- MOM
I - ISTAT
I - IQML
I - IDARESA
I - SDSS-GDDS (IMF)
I - CMR
I - GESMES
I - CORBA
I - CODAM
I
- MIMAMED
- MAMEOB
- CRISTAL
- FASTER
- NEUCHATEL GROUP
- DUBLIN CORE
- TRIPLE S
- SGML/XML
-…
FUTURE OF THE WEB-BASED
METADATA
- STANDARDIZATION
I - UNIFICATION
I - HARMONIZATION
I - GLOBALIZATION
I -…
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ONE OF THE PRACTICAL EXAMPLES IN THIS DIRECTION
IS THE EU FUNDED METANET PROJECT