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Metadata interoperability in public sector information

Lina Bountouri

Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, boudouri{at}ionio.gr

Christos Papatheodorou

Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, Digital Curation Unit, 'Athena' Research Centre, Athens, Greece

Vasilis Soulikias

Local Archive of Limni Evia - State General Archives of Greece, Limni, Evia, Greece

Mathios Stratis

Cataloguing Department, National Library of Greece, Athens, Greece

Over recent years, there has been a worldwide growing need for interoperability among the systems that manage and reuse public sector information. This paper explores the documentation needs for public sector information and focuses on metadata interoperability issues. The research work studies a variety of public sector information metadata standards and guidelines internationally accepted and presents two methodologies to obtain interoperability. The first develops an application profile, while the second is based on the semantic integration approach and results in the creation of an ontology. The outcomes of the two approaches are compared under the prism of their scope and usage in terms of interoperability during the metadata integration process.

Key Words: metadata interoperability • public sector information • ontology-based integration • application profiles • eGovernment

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 35, No. 2, 204-231 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508098601
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