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ajis02-414	Madsen, Mark; Fogg, Iain; Ruggles, Clive	Meta-Information Systems: a design study	1994	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5519	243	51	By integrating existing information systems in a flexible manner, allowing access to and use of existing catalogues and utilities, and providing a framework within which users can store and retrieve knowledge, metadata systems generate the potential for rapid and transparent access to the information stored globally both now and in the future. The metadata approach to information systems provides a number of powerful advantages over other approaches: • Metadata systems provide a level of abstraction between the user and the stored data.	cache/ajis02-414.pdf	txt/ajis02-414.txt