A panoramic view on metadata application profiles of the last decade

Abstract

This paper describes a study developed with the goal to understand the panorama of the metadata Application Profiles (AP): (i) what AP have been developed so far; (ii) what type of institutions have developed these AP; (iii) what are the application domains of these AP; (iv) what are the Metadata Schemes (MS) used by these AP; (v) what application domains have been producing MS; (vi) what are the Syntax Encoding Schemes (SES) and the Vocabulary Encoding Schemes (VES) used by these AP; and finally (vii) if these AP have followed the Singapore Framework (SF). We found (i) 74 AP; (ii) the AP are mostly developed by the scientific community, (iii) the 'Learning Objects' domain is the most intensive producer; (iv) Dublin Core metadata vocabularies are the most used and are being used in all domains of application and IEEE LOM is the second most used but only inside the 'Learning Objects' application domain; (v) the most intensive producer of MS is the domain of 'Libraries and Repositories'; (vi) 13 distinct SES and 90 distinct VES were used; (vi) five of the 74 AP found follow the SF.

TR-Model. A Metadata Profile Application for Personal Data Transparency

“…• Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats: defines coding rules for computer systems to use to read / process data. Morgana and Baptista [24] and Malta and Baptista [39] highlight several examples of MAPs that have sought to address a wide range of application domains. Examples cited by the authors are: Scholarly Work Application Profile (SWAP) [40] used to describe academic work and the Virtual Open Access Agriculture -Aquaculture Repository (VOA3R) [41] developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).…”

An application profile for research collaboration and information management

“…Citing the need for metadata schema designers to have special knowledge and a time-consuming iterative design process, Ochiai et al (2014) have proposed a methodology for designing metadata schema based on the agile development model and a prototype system for its support. Curado, Malta and Baptista (2014) have found 74 application profiles. The most intensive application domain of these application profiles is 'Learning Object' and the metadata schemas employed in them are defined primarily by communities of libraries and repositories.…”