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About 20 % of our work time is expended in searching for information and knowledge. Time is wasted because what we are searching for is often unstructured and difficult to pinpoint. This problem can be solved by embedding brief keyword descriptions in filesystems or in the documents. These properties or keys are also known as metadata.
The Work Flow Metadata (WFMD) Initiative works both to create and to promote the best standard for metadata in projects, with a focus on workflows and trans-organizational documents (documents that do not strictly follow the structure of an organization). In practice, the WFMD initiative sets up examples, organizes meetings, finds and spreads references and publishes relevant information. Our vision is to achieve practical use of the semantics using anything from word-documents, html, web-DAV or even RDF as metadata containers.
The goal is both a standard and a method for metadata in organizational documents, so that we can share information and knowledge over system- and organizational borders. The efficency of structure in information can be seen as an infrastructure for organizations and individuals to communicate without drowning in the ocean of unorganized information.
The project shall:
- develop a standard for metadata semantics in digital documents
- integrate that standard with existing standards
- develop methods that simplify information transfer between applications
- focus on organization-wide structure capital and knowledge sharing
Join us by registering on our mail-list (at metadata@wfmd.org ) by sending a mail to: jonas@wfmd.org .
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