Universal Metadata Definition

The need to have standards has always been a priority of all the disciplines in the world. Today, standards such as XML and USB are trying to create a universal interface for their respective areas. The information regarding every family in the discipline addressed, must have a lot in common, known as Metadata. A lot of work has been done in specific domains such as IEEE LOM and MPEG-7 but they do not appeal to the universality of creating Metadata for all entities, where we take an entity (object) as, not restricted to Software Terms. This paper tries to address this problem of universal Metadata Definition which may lead to increase in precision of search.

Authors:

• Mohib ur Rehman
• Mohammad Haseeb Anwer
• Nadeem Iftikhar

Keywords:

• Metadata
• Standard
• Universal
• XML.

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