Metadata++:

1. A Superimposed Architecture for Semantic Searching Metadata++: 15 August 2001 Forest Board Meeting Mathew Weaver Department of Computer Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science & Engineering Oregon Health & Science University

2. Metadata++ Architecture • Document Scope • Explicit document metadata • Document Proxies • Terms • Properties • Enhanced superimposed metadata Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

3. Digital Non-Digital Metadata++ Document Proxies Document Scope Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

4. Environmental Assessment Parley Pratt Wenatchee National Forest Purpose Author: Parley Pratt Purpose: Environmental Assessment Location: Wenatchee National Forest Keyword: Interstate 90 Keyword: Snoqualmie Pass Author Location Keyword Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Terms • Values in traditional metadata become explicit terms Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

5. Environmental Assessment Parley Pratt Wenatchee National Forest Author: Parley Pratt Purpose: Environmental Assessment Location: Wenatchee National Forest Keyword: Interstate 90 Keyword: Snoqualmie Pass Purpose Author Location Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Properties • Fields in traditional metadata become explicit properties Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

6. Environmental Assessment Parley Pratt Wenatchee National Forest Purpose Author Location Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Explicit Metadata • Document Proxies, Terms, and Properties are all explicit objects • Document metadata is represented by associating a proxy with a term via a property Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

7. Parley Pratt Editor Author Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Location Environmental Assessment Purpose NEPA Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Explicit Metadata Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

8. Parley Pratt Editor Author Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Spatial Cont. … this is useful for representing structured controlled vocabularies, etc. Additional superimposed information is represented by associating terms with other terms via properties …. Location Environmental Assessment Concept. Cont. Purpose NEPA Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Enhanced Metadata Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

9. Contributor Editor Author Parley Pratt Explicit properties are hierarchically related – allowing for flexibility in the degree of precision … “Find documents where Parley Pratt is a contributor.” Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Spatial Cont. Location Western Hemlock Environmental Assessment Concept. Cont. Purpose NEPA Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Super Enhanced Metadata Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting

10. Contributor Editor Author Parley Pratt Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Spatial Cont. Species In addition to hierarchical structure between terms, other information may be represented by associating terms with terms via properties. This supports enhanced searching – such as similarity search. Location Western Hemlock Environmental Assessment Concept. Cont. Purpose NEPA Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass Super-Duper Enhanced Metadata Metadata++ - Mathew Weaver - Forest Board Meeting