General Fragment Model for Information Artifacts
This work addresses the need for a systematic model in data-intensive domains to handle information heterogeneity, though it appears incremental relative to existing anchoring models focused on audiovisual information.
The paper tackles the problem of linking semantic descriptions to heterogeneous data fragments by proposing a generalized fragment model that can be instantiated across various information artifacts, aiming to systematize fragment and anchor descriptions without relying on specific vocabularies.
The use of semantic descriptions in data intensive domains require a systematic model for linking semantic descriptions with their manifestations in fragments of heterogeneous information and data objects. Such information heterogeneity requires a fragment model that is general enough to support the specification of anchors from conceptual models to multiple types of information artifacts. While diverse proposals of anchoring models exist in the literature, they are usually focused in audiovisual information. We propose a generalized fragment model that can be instantiated to different kinds of information artifacts. Our objective is to systematize the way in which fragments and anchors can be described in conceptual models, without committing to a specific vocabulary.