Professional XML Meta Data

by Jay Cousins, Ann Wrightson, Kal Ahmed, et al.

As we have an increasing amount of information available in electronic formats, we need a way of dealing with and managing the volume of data we store and exchange. To help us do this we can use meta... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861004516
• ISBN13: 9781861004512
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Learn lots of new interesting things happening in XML World!

By now, I guess most of IT professionals have atleast heard about XML and know what problems XML can help solve, however it's challenging to keep up with fast evolving technologies around XML, like RDF, Topic Maps, Schemas, etc. I myself had heard about these technologies, but didn't quite understand them fully till I read Professional XML Meta Data from Wrox. As far as I know, this is the only book available in the market today that covers technologies useful for data description, discovery and exchange, in so much detail. The book covers XML Schemas, XML Linking and Querying, both the RDF specifications, Topic Maps and more. All the topics are explained in detail, the book is very well connected and the chapters flow nicely in sequence. I personally liked the final chapter "Advanced Meta Data Use Cases" that covers couple of areas where meta data can enhance the applications.

THE book for XML metadata technologies.

If you need to know about the latest XML metadata technologies or concepts like the Semantic Web and machine readable metadata, you need this book. I found it very useful in explaining RDF (there are three excellent chapters on RDF) and Topic Maps, which are potentially difficult subjects to understand. The book also suggests some interesting uses for metadata in the future, and has a useful chapter on extracting metadata from databases.