Summarizing a Metadata Collection
In order to locate servers which contain particular information and to answer efficiently to user queries, we propose to store
on the central server only a concise version of all metadata collections. If we look at the metadata collection presented in
Figure 4, one may easily sum up this collection by saying that this server located in Paris contains a video about a person and
a vehicle (without giving the details), and an audio content. Also, a more summarized version will be that this server located
in Paris contains a video and an audio content.
We propose in the following example to illustrate this summary degree on RDF descriptions. Moreover, we will propose in
this example one method for selecting some descriptions according to this degree.