Web based Dublin Core METADATA generator design

The freedom of dissemination and the attainability of knowledge on the internet cause the accumulation of web documents significantly day by day. Therefore, it is getting more and more difficult to select the appropriate documents for the knowledge one may request from this huge document base. It is this reason that a standardization is needed for the usage of METADATA, which provides information about web documents. Usage of metadata gained a great importance nowadays. It is then natural to expect a great accumulation of the quantity of programs or tools facilitating the attainment proper knowledge on the web via metadata. In this thesis, we designed and developed a ?Web Based Automatic Metadata Generator? program retrieving information from a given Web page. The program not only parses ?META? tags but also has the quality of being able to list internal and external links as well as the repeated and bold written words on the page. The contents of the tags obtained may be mixed with the user?s data to generate metadata tags of Dublin Core type for RDF/XML, XML and HTML documents, according to the preferences of the user. The program has been developed by the use of Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005 environment, ASP and C# languages, and has been tested on web pages with html extensions successfully. KEYWORDS: Metadata, Metadata Generator, Dublin Core, RDF Advisor: Prof. Dr. Timur KAR