: Until now the growing volume of heterogeneous and distributed information on the WWW makes increasingly difficult for the existing tools to retrieve relevant information. To impr...
Abstract— Metadata annotations of Grid resources can potentially be used for a number of purposes, including accurate resource allocation to jobs, discovery of services, and prec...
Some large scale topical digital libraries, such as CiteSeer, harvest online academic documents by crawling open-access archives, university and author homepages, and authors’ s...
In Geoscience domain, large amounts of data are accessible, however they vary in formats and are stored at various organizations leading to problems of data discovery, data intero...
Current methods for finding relevant content, especially in media-rich web environments, suggest that metadata is critical for accurate and efficient information retrieval. We des...