Web-oriented Data Formats and Their Management ...

Future Internet envisages a global network of Internet-enabled objects, in most cases mobile and wireless nodes, mainly accessible through web standards. This network connection implies a big flux of data through mobile devices and wireless networks, most of which are unstructured. Such data need to be structured, collected and/or organized in web-oriented formats to be published within every web framework and managed by a backend database structure. Focusing on the handling of digital objects and mobile devices to publish information, this paper discusses how to structure and then manage the data derived from different sources in a web-oriented way. The project’s starting point is to implement a device able to capture, collect, and transmit different kinds of information related to a target object. The research framework is the applications of future Internet technologies for culture dissemination and outreach. Constraints such as technologies to structure the data, ways to enrich the data with semantic information using metadata, and storage solutions will dictate the final decisions. This paper analyzes the available possibilities to handle these data, starting from languages, protocols, and database management systems based on consideration on updated approaches in these topics. The aim is to develop a solution capable of holding a large amount of both unstructured and structured data that can be published on a web platform accessible for mobile devices.