• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.609-623
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• 2004

Various metadata registries have been built in many countries of the world. Although the metadata registry is an international standard, it does not provide a consistent access interface for handling the metadata registries. Therefore, all systems for managing them were developed by using different operations and access interfaces. It requires duplicate efforts on the same operations whenever metadata registry systems are developed. As a result, it causes unnecessary costs and efforts for building metadata registries, and also incurs inconsistency between the metadata registries because the previous developed systems use the different interfaces for the metadata registry elements This paper analyzes and defines operation patterns that are commonly used for the metadata registries. We defined and designed SQL/MDR extended from SQL using the analyzed operation patterns. SQL/MDR provides a standardized access interface for developing metadata registry systems. This paper shows the implementation of SQL/MDR and the result that we actually applied it to the bibliographical databases. By developing the metadata registry systems using SQL/MDR, we can reduce much time and efforts owing to its standard interface. It allows metadata registries to be accessed consistently. Additionally, it makes all metadata registries follow the international standard, ISO/IEC ll179.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2009

In various fields, ISO/IEC 11179-based MDR (Metadata Registry) systems have been developed. However, the current systems do not observe the standard, so inconsistency issue between metadata arises. Most of all, there exist several problems because ISO/IEC 11179 provides no standardized access method. SQL/MDR has been suggested to resolve those problems. SQL/MDR supports search operations, but it does not provide operations for vaild building and safe access for MDR. This paper, in the aforementioned issues, suggests MCL(Metadata Control Language) to guarantee safe and easy access control. MCL offers predefined roles and authority of user groups defined in ISO/IEC 11179 Part 6, and users are assigned to a proper user group. With such a way, MCL increases usability and security.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.263-283
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• 2020

This study proposed a method to redesign the search system by extracting the class, property, and code values of value domain from the key elements of the MDR system that conforms to the ISO/IEC 11179 standard. To implement this, an operating system conforming to the standard is required. Therefore, this study targeted the MDR system of the Korea Information and Communication Technology Association. As a result, it was confirmed that the redesigned MDR system can easily search and utilize specific metadata without understanding the conceptual domain, metadata element concept, metadata element, and value domain proposed in the standard.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.109-136
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• 2005

This paper describes the major components of ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry (MDR) standard designed to promote data interoperability between systems, explains and discusses semantic web technology and Web ontology languages initiated by W3C that can be employed to further enhance data interoperability, and finally proposes a framework for a new RDF/OWL-based MDR to convert from the current human-readable MDR to machine-readable MDR. If the new MDR is successful, we might be able to offer a better customized information service to users. The future research will be concerned with evaluating objectively the effectiveness of machine-readable MDR in meeting the needs of real users.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.165-170
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• 2008

다양한 분야에서 ISO/IEC 11179를 기반으로 MDR(Metadata Registry)시스템들이 개발되었다. 그러나 현재 구축된 메타데이타 관리 시스템들은 표준을 따라서 생성되지 않아 메타데이타 간 불일치가 발생하는 문제가 있다. 그리고 메타데이타를 공유하고 교환할 수 있는 표준화된 접근방법을 제공하지 않아 MDR 시스템마다 상이한 방법을 이용하여 개발되는 문제점을 야기한다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 SQL/MDR이 제안되었다. SQL/MDR은 MDR에 대한 사용하기 쉬운 표준 인터페이스를 제공함으로써 반복적인 메타데이터 레지스트리 접근연산 개발 시 메타데이터 레지스트리 간 데이터 불일치를 개선할 수 있게 한다. 그러나 SQL/MDR은 검색을 위한 연산만을 지원할 뿐, MDR 구축 시 접근제어를 위한 연산은 제공하지 않아 정확하고 표준화된 MDR 구축 및 안전한 접근제어를 보장하지 못한다. 이 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 SQL/MDR문제점 중에서 안전한 접근제어를 보장할 수 있는 방법으로 MCL(Metadata Control Language)을 제안한다. MCL은 ISO/IEC 11179 Part 6에서 제안하는 사용자 그룹의 역할과 권한을 미리 정의하여 사용자를 사용자 그룹으로 할당하는 간단한 연산자를 사용함으로써 사용상의 편이성과 보안성을 증대시킨다. 또한 시스템 관리자가 쉽고 정확하게 MDR에 대한 접근제어 규칙을 쉽게 정의할 수 있게 하여 시스템 관리 시간 및 비용을 감소시킨다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.1147-1161
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• 2015

The ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata registry (MDR) is an international standard that was developed to register and share metadata. ISO/IEC 11179 represents an MDR as a metamodel that is an object model. However, it is difficult to develop an MDR based on ISO/IEC 11179 because the standard has no clear criteria to transform the metamodel into a database. In this paper, we suggest the design of an MDR data model that is based on object-relational transformation methodology (ORTM) for the MDR implementation. Hence, we classify the transformation methods of ORTM according to the corresponding relationships. After classification, we propose modeling rules by defining the standard use of the transformation. This paper builds the relational database tables as an implementation result of an MDR data model. Through experiments and evaluation, we verify the proposed modeling rules and evaluate the suitability of the created table structures. As the result, the proposed method shows that the table structures preserve classes and relationships of the standard metamodel well.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.161-172
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• 2013

Metadata registry (MDR) is the international standard, developed by ISO/IEC for exchange and sharing data between databases. Many MDR systems are used in diverse domains such as medical service, bibliography, environment for sharing and integrating data. However, those systems have different physical structures individually because the MDR standard defines only the metamodel for registering and storing metadata. It causes heterogeneity between the system structures and requires additional cost to maintain interoperability. ISO/IEC 13249-8 Metadata Registry Access (MRA) is developing as an international standard to provide a consistent access facility to data stored in different metadata registries. However, MRA does not consider the relationships between the concepts (classes) defined in the MDR specification. It causes that incorrect query results returned from MDR systems. It also requires additional cost of modeling and rewriting queries to reflect each physical model. Therefore, this paper suggests eMRA which considers the relationships between the concepts in MDR. The comparative evaluations are described to show the advantages of eMRA. eMRA has superior performance in query modeling and referential integrity than MRA defined by the relationship between the concept of MDR.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1701-1707
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• 2010

This study is intended for implementing the system environment that can help integrate and retrieve various types of data in real-time by providing semantic interoperability among distributed heterogeneous information systems. The semantic interoperability is made possible by providing a TMDR(Topicmaps Metadata Registry), a set of ontologies. TMDR, which has been made by combining MDR(MetaData Registry) and TopicMaps and storing them in the database, is able to generate distributed query and provide efficient knowledge. MDR is a metadata management technique for distributed data management. TopicMaps is an ontology representation technique that takes into consideration the hierarchy and association for accessing knowledge data. We have created TMDR, a kind of ontology, that is fit for any system and able to detect and resolve semantic conflicts on the level of data and schema. With this system we propose a query-processing technique to integrate and access heterogeneous information sources. Unlike existing retrieval methods this makes possible efficient retrieval and reasoning by providing association focusing on subjects.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.367-376
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• 2005

SQL/MDR is a metadata registry query language used to consistently exchange and share the data between distributed metadata registries. It is an extension of the international SQL and is familiar to most database builders and administrators. It provides many advantages such as simplicity of query language, ease of use, an independent description for distributed querying, low cost for adding new systems, simplicity of exchanging mechanism, and so on. The goal of this paper is to evaluate and show its merits quantitatively. To achieve this goal, we define simulation models to compare with an existing approach and then describe the evaluation results. In the quantitative evaluation results, the good points of SQL/MDR can be identified and known.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.232-242
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• 2004

Metadata is a general notion of data about data to improve data sharing and exchanging by definitely describing meaning and representation of data. However, metadata has been created in various ways and It caused another kind of heterogeneity problem named metadata heterogeneity problem. Recently, the research on metadata gateway approach that allows metadata heterogeneity is being more actively progressed. However, the existing commercialized systems that have been implemented with the metadata gateway approach are dependent on a metadata schema. In this paper, we propose a message conversion system which separates the mapping information from the mapping rules between heterogeneous metadata schemas. The proposed system dynamically manages standardized data elements by applying ISO/IEC l1179. Therefore, the proposed system provides the set of standard data elements to create consistently metadata of new databases and provides a fundamental resolution to the metadata heterogeneity problem.