Title: The IMDI metadata framework, its current application and future direction

Authors: Daan Broeder, Peter Wittenburg

Addresses: Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ' Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract: The IMDI Framework offers next to a suitable set of metadata descriptors for language resources, a set of tools and an infrastructure to use these. This paper gives an overview of all these aspects and at the end describes the intentions and hopes for ensuring the interoperability of the IMDI framework within more general ones in development. An evaluation of the current state of the IMDI Framework is presented with an analysis of the benefits and more problematic issues. Finally we describe work on issues of long-term stability for IMDI by linking up to the work done within the ISO TC37/SC4 subcommittee (TC37/SC4).

Keywords: IMDI metadata framework; metadata descriptors; language resources; ISO TC37/SC4.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.011008

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.2, pp.119 - 132

Published online: 03 Oct 2006 *

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