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Automation of metadata will inevitably continue to expand with the development of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Semantic Web,

structure has always been important in information organization and representation,

Information communities are aware that the more highly structured an information object is, the more that structure can be exploited for searching, manipulation, and interrelating with other information objects.

Folksonomies that are created using specialized tagging tools in various Web-based communities in order to identify, retrieve, categorize, and promote Web content and the sharing of bookmarks through the practice of social bookmarking are examples of the burgeoning user-created metadata on the Web.

Different types of metadata can become associated with an information object by a variety of processes, both human and automated.

Metadata plays a crucial role in documenting and maintaining important relationships, as well as in indicating the authenticity, structural and procedural integrity, and degree of completeness of information objects.

Carefully crafted metadata results in the best information management—and the best end-user access—in both the short and the long term.