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An Enterprise Ontology Building the Bases for Automatic Metadata Generation

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Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2010)

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’Information Overload’ or ’Document Deluge’ is a problem enterprises and Public Administrations alike are still dealing with. Although commercial products for Enterprise Content or Records Management are available since more than two decades, especially in Small and Medium Enterprises and Public Administrations they didn’t get through. Because of the wide range of document types and formats full-text indexing is not sufficient, but assigning metadata manually is not possible. Thus, automatic, format-independent generation of metadata for (public) enterprise documents is needed. Using context to infer metadata automatically has been researched for example for web-documents or learning objects. If (public) enterprise objects were modelled ’machine understandable’ they could be build the context for automatic metadata generation. The approach introduced in this paper is to model context (the (public) enterprise objects) in an ontology and using that ontology to infer content-related metadata.

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  1. Institute for Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Riggenbachstr. 16, CH-4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Barbara Thönssen

  2. Dipartmento di Matematica e Informatica, University of Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri 9, 62032, Camerino, Italy, MC

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Thönssen, B. (2010). An Enterprise Ontology Building the Bases for Automatic Metadata Generation. In: Sánchez-Alonso, S., Athanasiadis, I.N. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16552-8_19

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