Mariana Curado Malta

State of the art on methodologies for the development of a metadata application profile

This article presents the state of the art on methodologies for the development of a metadata application profile. For this purpose we have performed searches in scientific on-line databases and made other efforts such as global searches on the Web and calls on the mailing lists of the metadata communities to find articles and Web pages about metadata application profiles development and metadata best practices or methodologies. These searches produced 21 items of which 9 have information on how the metadata application profiles were developed. As a result of this analysis we have found small formulas or private recipes for very particular phases of the process, but none is described in detail. We have also found guidelines that were too global and not sufficiently detailed for the metadata application profile development. As far as we could determine, there is no comprehensive methodological support for the metadata application profile development.

Me4DCAP V0.1: A method for the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles

Recent studies show that there is no method to develop a Dublin Core Application Profile DCAP. A DCAP is a very important construct to implement interoperability, therefore it is essential to have a method to be able to develop such a construct, in order to give DCAP developers a common ground of work. This paper presents the first version of a method to develop Dublin Core Application Profiles Me4DACP V0.1 that has been developed in a PhD project with a Design Science Research DSR approach. Me4DCAP was built having as starting point the Singapore Framework for DCAP and shows the way through the DCAP development. It encompasses a group of pre-defined interconnected activities, explicitly states when they should take place, what techniques could be used to execute them and what artifacts should result from their execution.

Developing Metadata Application Profiles

This chapter presents the early stages of a metadata application profile (MAP) development that uses a process of reverse engineering. The context of this development is the European poetry, more specifically the poetry metrics and all dimensions that exist around this context. This community of practice has a certain number of digital repertoires that store this information and that are not interoperable. This chapter presents some steps of the definition of the MAP Domain Model. It shows how the developers having as starting point these repertoires, and by means of a reverse engineering process are modeling the functional requirements of each repertoire using the use-case modeling technique and are analyzing every database Using Reverse Engineering to Define a Domain Model: The Case of the Development of a Metadata Application Profile for European Poetry Mariana Curado Malta Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal & LINHD-UNED, Spain Paloma Centenera LINHD-UNED, Spain Elena Gonzalez-Blanco LINHD-UNED, Spain Using Reverse Engineering to Define a Domain Model