Automatic RDF Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery

Description:Automatic metadata generation may provide a solution to the problem of inconsistent, unreliable metadata describing resources on the Web. The Resource Description Framework (RDF [10]) provides a domain-neutral foundation on which extensible element sets can be defined and expressed in a standard notation. This paper describes how an automatic classifier, that classifies HTML documents according to Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC [8]), can be used to extract context sensitive metadata which is then represented using RDF.