| Author | Pong-anan Wanitchakorn |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. IM-99-10 |
| Subject(s) | Metadata
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Science, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IM-99-10 |
| Abstract | The Internet has long been a large source of information, and it keeps growing every
day. Serving diverse audiences around the world, the Internet faces the problem of
appropriateness of its content delivered to people - certain materials are appropriate only for
certain groups of audiences. Initially, there was an effort to protect children from unfavorable
resources. Several working groups had put forth effort to develop methods to filter out the
inappropriate materials. The World Wide Web Consortium working group finally invented a
metadata specification called 'Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)'. Web builders
and Software developers thereafter create Web pages and develop filtering software according
to this specification.
There are several factors influencing the judgement on 'appropriateness' of an Internet
material - for example, age and educational level of the user. Embedding a knowledge-based
component in the filtering software will indubitably be a means to enhance the software's
capability. However, none of the software employs such a component.
This thesis study seeks to illustrate another way to exploit metadata for information
filtering purpose by combining it with a knowledge-based system. This thesis has also proven
that it is possible to build knowledge-based systems that can work with metadata standards.
Should there be any new metadata standards in the future, such systems can be developed to
exploit them. |
| Year | 1999 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IM-99-10 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Vilas Wuwongse; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Batanov, Dentcho N. ;Devadason, Francis J. ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1999 |