libiViaMetadata Documentation
5.3.0
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Introduction
LibiViaMetadata is a C++ library that provides a set of classes and functions for assigning descriptive metadata to Web pages (HTML,XHTML), PDF documents, Postscript documents, and plain text. LibiViaMetadata was developed by the iVia Project, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Please see the Related Pages section for information on installing and configuring libiViaMetadata.The main class in libiViaMetadata is called MetadataAssigner. It uses a diverse set of extraction and classification techniques to assigning the following types of descriptive metadata:
- Titles
- Descriptions
- Key phrases
- INFOMINE Categories (requires model)
- Language
- Media Type (i.e. MIME Type)
- Creator, contributor, and publisher
- Library of Congress Classification (requires model)
- LCSH
- LCC outlines
- Dublin Core
- and more...
This library depends on the libiViaCore-5.3.0 library. Many people who install this software will do so in conjunction with iVia, DataFountains or the Nalanda iVia Focused Crawler.
Since libiViaMetadata is Free Software, you are welcome to reuse the code, in whole or in part, in other projects in accordance with the LGPL.
Installation instructions are in the INSTALL file. The GNU Lesser General Public License is in the COPYING file. Documentation is in the share/doc directory. HTML documentation of the programming interface is in the share/doc/libiViaMetadata/html directory.