Revisiting ontology and metadata in the light of digital informational environments

ABSTRACT

The contemporary scenariomarked by the informational explosion it is essential that highly distributed information environments such as the Web, share and collaborate with organized and structured data and information. This reality has challenged professionals from different fields of knowledge, especially the area of Information Science to seek solutions to the informational treatment of such environments in order to ensure efficient search and retrieval of informational resources. Elucidated that the treatment of the information resource requires a description of form and content readable by machines with human understandable results, and it also meets the requirements of interoperability between informational environments. The objective is to check the relational dimension between the instruments for the representation of data and information, such as ontology and metadata, regarded as pillars for modeling, structuring catalogs and bibliographic systems. Through an exploratory and descriptive methodology interdisciplinary in the areas of Information Science and Computer Science are identified conceptual elements in order to point out the need for the construction of structured digital information environments and standardized. The use of ontology and metadata synergistically presents vital importance for the representation and the description of bibliographic resources in digital informational environments currently, providing a modeling of bibliographic catalogs and semantic interoperability between different systems and platforms.

Keywords:
Ontology; Metadata; Modeling digital information environment; Interoperability; Information and Technology