Media-Independent Correlation of Information: What? How

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Article

Publication Date

4-1996

Abstract

A wide variety of data in different media (text, structured, image, audio,...) is now accessible in Internet and Intranet. Limitations of current keyword based and hyper-media link based access are all the more apparent when a user wants information without prior knowledge of the locations or media that have data to meet his/her information needs. Two of the several components of the solution being investigated in the InfoQuilt project are discussed here: (a) the use of a wide variety of metadata, that abstract information content without regards to the location, format or media of data and (b) the use of a logical level linking of data called a metadata reference link (MREF) as a hypothetical extension to HTML to support metadata based information correlation between heterogeneous digital media data stored in distributed repositories.

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Presented at the First IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, MD, April 16-18, 1996.

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