Digital media consultant, Diane Burley, says that metadata is the key to creating websites that enable discovery and provide user satisfaction. But she doesn't mean that run-of-the-mill metadata - date, author, format etc - administrative metadata, but semantic metadata.
"The academics at Kent State call it descriptive metadata, while the folks at Nstein prefer to call it semantic metadata (semdata??). It is metadata that is generated using a multi-faceted approach of computational and linguistic analysis. It not only extracts meaning from documents – but also embeds the synonyms, summary, categories, even the tone, in order to create a linguistic fingerprint. This linguistic fingerprint can then be matched against any other linguistic fingerprint – to find like pieces of content."
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