Advanced Semantic Management of Digital Resources

To efficiently support collaborative semantic management of digital resources, this article introduces MetaSemflow, a vertical semantic flow of metadata integration to capitalize on the diversity of metadata sets available for any given digital resource among various communities (cultural, linguistical, architectural, historical, or multi- disciplinary communities). MetaSemflow proposes a metadata vertical integration by combining a multi-faceted resource categorization approach to a topic maps-based semantic management including contextual semantics (e.g. 5W1H model). This innovative approach has been used by the Isfahan Islamic architecture database (IIAD) project.