Structured graph format: XML metadata for describing Web site structure

Liechti, Olivier; Sifer, Mark; Ichikawa, Tadao

doi:10.1016/s0169-7552(98)00039-7

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“…RDF provides flexibility and robustness advantages but is inapplicable to enterprise frameworks. SGF [60]-an XML based metadata representation-describes the structure of a web site to ease its navigation by creating interactive site maps; SGF also captures the semantic relationship between different web pages. The KNOWLEDGE GRID metadata [61] uses XML to represent information for managing the resources of a heterogeneous Grid, including computers, data, telecommunication, networks, and software.…”

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Reusing metadata across components, applications, and languages

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Tilevich

2015

Science of Computer Programming

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Among the well-known means to increase programmer productivity and decrease development effort is systematic software reuse. Although large scale reuse remains an elusive goal, programmers have been successfully reusing individual software artifacts, including components, libraries, and specifications. One software artifact that is not amenable to reuse is metadata, which has become an essential part of modern software development. Specifically, mainstream metadata formats, including XML and Java 5 annotations, are not amenable to systematic reuse. As a result, software that uses metadata cannot fully reap the benefits traditionally associated with systematic reuse. To address this lack of metadata reusability, this article presents Pattern-Based Structural Expressions (PBSE), a new metadata format that is not only reusable, but also offers conciseness and maintainability advantages. PBSE can be reused both across individual program components and across entire applications. In addition, PBSE makes it possible to reuse metadata-expressed functionality across languages. In particular, we show how implementations of non-functional concerns (commonly expressed through metadata) in existing languages can be reused in emerging languages via automated metadata translation. Because metadata constitutes an intrinsic part of modern software applications, the ability to systematically reuse metadata is essential for improving programmer productivity and decreasing development effort.

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Section: Metadatamentioning

confidence: 99%

Reusing metadata across components, applications, and languages

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Tilevich

2015

Science of Computer Programming

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“…RDF provides flexibility and robustness advantages but is inapplicable to enterprise frameworks. SGF [17]-an XML based metadata representation-describes the structure of a web site to ease its navigation by creating interactive site maps; SGF also captures the semantic relationship between different web pages. The KNOWLEDGE GRID metadata [19] uses XML to represent information for managing the resources of a heterogeneous Grid, including computers, data, telecommunication, networks, and software.…”

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Reusable enterprise metadata with pattern-based structural expressions

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Song

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

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An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a number of limitations that complicate the development and maintenance of enterprise applications. Their key problem is that they make it impossible to reuse metadata specifications not only across different applications but even across smaller program constructs such as classes or methods.To provide better enterprise metadata, we present patternbased structural expressions (PBSE), a novel metadata representation that offers conciseness and maintainability advantages and is reusable. To apply PBSE to enterprise applications, we translate PBSE specifications to Java annotations, with annotating classes automatically as an intermediate build step. We demonstrate the advantages of the new metadata format by assessing its conciseness and reusability, as compared to XML and annotations, in the task of expressing metadata of J2EE reference applications and a mid-size, commercial, enterprise application.

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“…[Nielsen 1997]. Overviews of some of these tools are given in Ahlberg and Shneiderman [1994]; Beaudoin et al [1996]; Bederson and Hollan [1994]; Gloor and Dynes [1998]; Lamping et al [1995]; Liechti et al [1998]; Maarek et al [1997]; Munzner and Burchard [1995]; Robertson et al [1991]; and Tetranet Software Inc.…”

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Information retrieval on the web

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In this paper we review studies of the growth of the Internet and technologies that are useful for information search and retrieval on the Web. We present data on the Internet from several different sources, e.g., current as well as projected number of users, hosts, and Web sites. Although numerical figures vary, overall trends cited by the sources are consistent and point to exponential growth in the past and in the coming decade. Hence it is not surprising that about 85% of Internet users surveyed claim using search engines and search services to find specific information. The same surveys show, however, that users are not satisfied with the performance of the current generation of search engines; the slow retrieval speed, communication delays, and poor quality of retrieved results (e.g., noise and broken links) are commonly cited problems. We discuss the development of new techniques targeted to resolve some of the problems associated with Web-based information retrieval,and speculate on future trends.

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Structured graph format: XML metadata for describing Web site structure

Cited by 30 publications

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Reusing metadata across components, applications, and languages

Reusing metadata across components, applications, and languages

Reusable enterprise metadata with pattern-based structural expressions

Information retrieval on the web

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