1. GLOBALIZATION OF INFORMATION HIGHWAYS AND THE NEED FOR NEW FORMS OF WEBDATA AND METADATA Prepared by: Dusan Soltes, Faculty of Management, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2. INTRODUCTION b DATA ANALYSIS AND/OR ANATOMY b FOR METADATA ON THE WEB

3. COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS b - DATA b - INFORMATION b - PEOPLE b - HARDWARE b - SOFTWARE b - ORGWARE b -...

4. DATA/INFORMATION b - THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF ANY IS b - DATA IS THE PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION REFLECTING THE REAL WORLD b - INFORMATION IS THE SEMANTIC CONTENT OF DATA AND INFORMS ABOUT THE PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES OF THE REAL WORLD

5. TYPOLOGY OF DATA/INFORMATION b PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION: b - BIT - DATA WAREHOUSE b - BYTE - WEB DATA b - WORD/ITEM b - RECORD b - FILE b - DATA BASE

6. DATA BY LOCATION b - PHYSICALLY LOCATED b - VIRTUAL (WEB)

7. DATA FUNCTIONS b - IDENTIFICATION b - CLASSIFICATION b - QUANTIFICATION b - DESCRIPTION b - AUDIO/VIDEO PRESENTATION b - MULTIMEDIAL PRESENTATION

8. TYPOLOGY OF DATA b - NUMERICAL - AUDIO b - ALPHABETIC - MULTIMEDIAL b - ALPHA-NUMERIC b - TEXTUAL/RICH TEXT/HYPER TEXT b - GRAPHICAL b - GEOGRAPHIC/SPATIAL b - VIDEO

9. DATA SEMANTICS b - STATISTICAL - KNOWLEDGE b - PLANNING - E- … b - FINANCIAL b - ACCOUNTING b - MARKETING b - COMMERCIAL b - BUSINESS b - EDUCATION

10. DATA TIME CHARACTERISTICS b - REAL TIME b - CURRENT b - HISTORICAL b - ARCHIVE b - PROGNOSTIC b - PLANNING b - FUTURISTIC

11. FORMS OF DATA HOLDINGS b - DATA FILE/SET - VIDEO FILE b - TIME SERIE - MULTIMEDIA FILE b - REGISTER - TEXTUAL FILE b - CLASSIFICATION - MAP b - NOMENCLATURE - ANIMATION b - CODE-LIST b - AUDIO FILE

12. ORGANIZATION OF DATA b - SERIAL - HASH b - SEQUENTIAL - FUZZY b - INDEX-SEQUENTIAL b - HIERARCHICAL b - NETWORK b - RELATIONAL b - MULTIDIMENSIONAL

13. DATA ACCESS, PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY b - PUBLIC/OPEN - INTERNET/WEB BASED b - RESTRICTED - EXTRANET b - CONFIDENTIAL - INTRANET b - SECRET - LOCAL NET b - TOP SECRET - NON-NET b - … - …

14. DATA LEVELS b - MICRODATA b - MACRODATA b - ORIGINAL b - DERIVED b - INDIVIDUAL b - AGGREGATED

15. METADATA - METAINFORMATION b - METADATA IS THE PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OF METAINFORMATION AND IS A DESCRIPTION OF DATA b - METAINFORMATION IS THE SEMANTIC CONTENT OF METADATA AND INFORMS ABOUT INFORMATION

16. TYPES OF METADATA b - DOCUMENT ORIENTED - SEMANTICAL b - OBJECT ORIENTED - TECHNICAL b - MACRO - INFOLOGICAL b - MICRO - DATALOGICAL b - LOCAL b - GLOBAL b - CLASSIFICATION b - CONCEPTUAL b - OPERATIONAL b - ORGANIZATIONAL

17. METADATA HOLDINGS b - CATALOGUE - METADATA WAREHOUSE b - DICTIONARY - METADATA WWW b - DIRECTORY b - GLOSSARY b - THESAURUS b - REGISTER b - CLASSIFICATION b - CODE-LIST b - NOMENCLATURE b - METADATA BASE

18. METADATA OBJECTS (STATISTICS) b - INDICATORS - STATISTICAL b - FORMS/SURVEYS POPULATIONS b - PUBLICATIONS - STATISTICAL UNITS b - FILES - CLASSIFICATIONS b - OUTPUT TABLES - NOMENCLATURES b - TIME-SERIES - CODE-LISTS b - ALGORITHMS - PHENOMENAS

19. METADATA FUNCTIONS b - INFORMATION - PROCESSING b - DOCUMENTATION - PRESENTATION b - INTERPRETATION - UTILIZATION b - NAVIGATION - INTEGRATION b - SERCHING - COMARISON b - ORIENTATION - RATIONALIZATION b - RETRIEVAL - GLOBALIZATION

20. METADATA MODELS, TOOLS, METHODS, STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS b - ISO/IEC 11179 - SIDI/SDOSIS b - UML - METIS b - MDA - GESMES b - XML/XMI - NESSTAR b - DDI - CLAMOUR b - CWM - METANET b - ESPLORIS - MOF b - INFOLOGIC - DATALOGIC

21. METADATA MODELS, TOOLS, … (CONT.) b - MOM - MIMAMED b - ISTAT - MAMEOB b - IQML - CRISTAL b - IDARESA - FASTER b - SDSS-GDDS (IMF) - NEUCHATEL GROUP b - CMR - DUBLIN CORE b - GESMES - TRIPLE S b - CORBA - SGML/XML b - CODAM - …

22. FUTURE OF THE WEB-BASED METADATA b - STANDARDIZATION b - UNIFICATION b - HARMONIZATION b - GLOBALIZATION b - … b ONE OF THE PRACTICAL EXAMPLES IN THIS DIRECTION IS THE EU FUNDED METANET PROJECT