Brase, Jan

Abstract: tadata standards Metadata is data about data that helps us to achieve better search results. Instead of hoping that a full text search through a learning resource will find the author`s name nejdl for example, we can annotate the resource with a metadata description "author is nejdl". While this seems plausible, we also easily realize the two major 2 difficulties this method holds: the technical realisation of "attaching metadata at a resource, and the standardisation of descriptions in order to avoid misunderstanding by using different attributes for the same purpose like "author is nejdl", "creator is nejdl" or "written by nejdl". Let us first take a look on the idea of using specific vocabularies or schemas for metadata to describe digital resources. One of the most common metadata schemes on the web today is the "Dublin Core Schema" (DC) by the DCMI. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) [9] is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable

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