A Study of File System Objects ’ Metadata

At this digital age we have more information than all previous generations combined, the major fraction of which reside in the File Systems of our desktops. This huge information is growing day by day and is hard to manage. The roles of metadata cannot be neglected; it assists to deal with the problems that arise from information overload. This paper is a study of File System objects’ metadata. Different researcher categorized metadata in the context of their research; we start our discussion with the explanation of almost all types of file’s metadata. Then we briefly discuss the existing metadata schemas. We think that the sun of tomorrow does not seem to be shining on semantic less metadata schemas; so, we extend our discussion on the need of semantic (machine friendly) metadata schemas, followed by a discussion on the Semantic Web vocabularies that could be exploited for the purpose. [Shah Khusro, Syed Rahman Mashwani, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shaukat Ali. A Study of File System Objects’ Metadata. Life Sci J 2013;10(11s):343-348] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 63

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