Metadata and Semantic Research: Third International Conference, MTSR 2009, Milan, Italy, October 1-2, 2009. Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 46)

This volume constitutes the selected paqpers of the third international conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2009, held in Milan, Italy, in September/October 2009. In order to give a novel perspective in which both theoretical and application aspects of metadata research contribute in the growth of the area, this book mirrors the structure of the Congress, grouping the papers into three main categories: 1) theoretical research: results and proposals, 2) applications: case studies and proposals, 3) special track: metadata and semantics for agriculture, food and environment. The book contains 32 full papers (10 for the first category, 10 for the second and 12 for the third), selected from a preliminary initial set of about 70 submissions. Table of Contents......Page 12 VMAP: A Dublin Core Application Profile for Musical Resources......Page 15 Usage-Oriented Topic Maps Building Approach......Page 27 ManagemOnt: A Semantic Approach to Software Engineering Management Process......Page 38 Clarifying the Semantics of Relationships between Learning Objects......Page 49 A Framework for Automatizing and Optimizing the Selection of Indexing Algorithms......Page 62 Empirical Analysis of Errors on Human-Generated Learning Objects Metadata......Page 74 Analysis of Educational Metadata Supporting Complex Learning Processes......Page 85 A Fine-Grained Metric System for the Completeness of Metadata......Page 97 Unified Semantic Search of Data and Services......Page 109 Preliminary Explorations on the Statistical Profiles of Highly-Rated Learning Objects......Page 122 A Semantic Web Based System for Context Metadata Management......Page 132 An XML Pipeline Based System Architecture for Managing Bibliographic Metadata......Page 144 DataStaR: Bridging XML and OWL in Science Metadata Management......Page 155 Structured Metadata for Representing and Managing Complex 'Narrative' Information......Page 165 A Semantic Web Framework to Support Knowledge Management in Chronic Disease Healthcare......Page 178 Ontological Enrichment of the Genes-to-Systems Breast Cancer Database......Page 185 An Ontology Based Approach to Information Security......Page 197 Reusability Evaluation of Learning Objects Stored in Open Repositories Based on Their Metadata......Page 207 A Comparison of Methods and Techniques for Ontological Query Expansion......Page 217 Exploring Characterizations of Learning Object Repositories Using Data Mining Techniques......Page 229 Assuring the Quality of Agricultural Learning Repositories: Issues for the Learning Object Metadata Creation Process of the CGIAR......Page 240 Ontology Design Parameters for Aligning Agri-Informatics with the Semantic Web......Page 253 Developing an Ontology for Improving Question Answering in the Agricultural Domain......Page 259 A Service Architecture for Facilitated Metadata Annotation and Ressource Linkage Using agroXML and ReSTful Web Services......Page 271 A Water Conservation Digital Library Using Ontologies......Page 277 Evaluation of a Metadata Application Profile for Learning Resources on Organic Agriculture......Page 284 Ontology for Seamless Integration of Agricultural Data and Models......Page 296 Assessment of Food and Nutrition Related Descriptors in Agricultural and Biomedical Thesauri......Page 308 Networked Ontologies from the Fisheries Domain......Page 320 Improving Information Exchange in the Chicken Processing Sector Using Standardised Data Lists......Page 326 Navigation as a New Form of Search for Agricultural Learning Resources in Semantic Repositories......Page 336 S......Page 343 Z......Page 344