A Model for Mapping Metadata Instances to Metadata Schema based on DCMI Application Profile using XPath Expressions

Abstract

Various metadata are embedded in a HTML Document. However, most of those metadata don't have explicit metadata schema. This paper proposes a model to support interpretation of embedded metadata without formal schema by linking a metadata instance to DCMI Description Set Profiles (DSP). An XPath expression addresses a metadata instance encoded in HTML, and DSP define metadata schema. We propose extending DSP to include XPath for linking a metadata instance to a metadata schema.