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Metadata has been identified as a key success factor in data warehouse projects. It captures all kinds of information necessary to design, build, use and interpret the data warehouse contents. This paper gives an overview about the role metadata plays for data warehousing and reviews existing standards, commercial solutions and research actions relevant to metadata management. It turns out that an overall solution for managing all metadata in a central or federated repository is still missing regarding a global metadata schema as well as system aspects and interoperability among involved tools producing metadata. The divergence of proposed standards will probably prevent a breakthrough within the near future.

In this paper, a framework to facilitate development of knowledge management (KM) system for curriculum development process is suggested. It was validated through experts' opinions with thirty two experts. The components of the framework were supported by the experts by emphasizing their necessity and importance in the curriculum development process. Some model curricula and related guidelines were studied to identify components of good curriculum. The curriculum development process was studied through various models for curriculum development proposed by researchers and description of the process by researchers. By the analysis of these models and processes, the Phases in curriculum development process life cycle were identified. Use of knowledge management in business organizations and other disciplines was also studied. Based on all this, this researcher could identify components of a good KM system for curriculum development. This framework will help in implementing a KM system for curriculum development process. It will streamline the process, improve quality of curriculum, save time and efforts by using existing knowledge and avoid repetition of work.

Today's search interfaces typically offer keyword searches and facets for the retrieval of cultural heritage multimedia objects. Facets, however, are usually based on a static set of metadata fields. This set is often called an indexing profile. Graph-based repositories based on predicates about resources allow for more precise semantics. They offer stronger support for retrieval, and they can be adopted to almost any metadata format. Technically, those predicates may be serialized as RDF triples, but handling a huge amount of objects with numerous predicates puts an unpredictable load on the query engine. In this paper, we present an approach on analysing transition paths in the RDF triples at ingest time and using the results to create facets in the search index.

Online media might be a way to introduce as well as preserve cultural heritage. Related to Indonesian culture, there are publication services available which focus only on information sources without metadata properties. This article explains our effort to preserve the Indonesian cultural heritage using semantic web and linked open data for a comprehensive presentation. An OWL-based ontology has been trying to be developed for a repository application consists of 13 ontologies of Indonesian cultural objects based on Description Logic of manually extracted literatures. The development process involved important partners in Special Region of Yogyakarta, i.e. Department of Culture, Regional Library and Archives Agency, Indonesian University Library Forum, as well as cultural practitioners and researchers. The applications of cultural objects are introduced at the end of this article. It is a baby step of a giant dream.

This article discusses the design of management information bases used in network management systems. We are proposing an object-oriented modeling method whose starting point is natural-language documentation. Our method parses a text previously analyzed at its finest level of granularity, i.e., the level of words. This method considers each word in the text leading first to an object-based model, then, eventually to an object-oriented model. Our approach is based on the analytic method of Vogel and the design methodology of Booch. Our ideas are illustrated with examples taken from the field of network management systems.

Since the last two decades, Wageningen UR Library has been involved in bibliometric analyses for the evaluation of scientific output of staff, chair groups and research institutes of Wageningen UR. In these advanced bibliometric analyses several indicator scores, such as the number of publications, number of citations and citation impacts, are calculated. For a fair comparison of scientific output from staff, chair groups or research institutes (that each work in a different scientific discipline with specific publication and citation habits) scores of the measured bibliometric indicators are normalized against average trend (or baseline) scores per research field. For the collection of scientific output that is subjected to the bibliometric analyses the repository Wageningen Yield (WaY) is used. This repository is filled from the research registration system Metis in which meta data for scientific output is registered by the secretaries of the research groups of Wageningen UR. By the application of a connection between the meta data of publications in WaY and citation scores in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, custom-made analyses on the scientific output and citation impact of specific entities from Wageningen UR can be performed fast and efficiently. Moreover, a timely registration of new scientific output is stimulated (to ensure their inclusion in future bibliometric analyses) and the quality of meta data in WaY is checked by the library staff and research staff from the research entities under investigation, thus promoting communication between the library and customers.

Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history and one of the deadliest. In 2006, the University of Southern Mississippi established the Katrina Research Center (KRC) as an multi-disciplinary center for research and education to facilitate the gathering of information on the effects of and recovery from catastrophic natural disasters such as Katrina. The purpose of this case study is to document the creation and development of the Katrina Research Center, including its mission, vision, organizational structure, funding, collection development, community outreach, research and educational activities.