Indian Statistical Institute, Mysore Road, 8th Mile, R.V.College Post, Bangalore-560059, Email: mkrishnamurthy@hotmail.com; Krishna@isibang.ac.in
Based on a paper presented at the National Seminar on Information/Knowledge Organization in the Humanities, organized jointly by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science and M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore, 9–11 August 2005.
Global networks, such as the Internet is transforming the information environment of distributed information resources and distributed computing. Distributed computing has pushed the trend towards higher level of abstraction and more formalized ontological support for information systems. This paper discusses the importance of ontology and metadata on the web, a common need for high quality information in and from the Internet.
