Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web

Abstract

While metadata is a key ingredient of machine-semantic technologies, it has drawbacks. As it is currently formed, metadata lacks dynamic responsiveness and requires top-down system modeling. The author proposes a schema and process of emergent metadata that will, if successful, allow metadata to respond to environmental conditions dynamically and to exhibit self-organizational features.

KEYWORDS:

• complexity science
• emergence
• information science
• metadata
• search and discovery
• self organization
• semantic web

Notes

From the Strength of Weak Ties theory of Mark Granovetter (Granovetter, 1973).