Research activities
Future Internet
In order to take into account the new needs and to propose new services, the Internet network must evolve from the current organization based on an architecture centered around nodes (whose servers are the key elements) towards an organization centered around information. where the data and their descriptions have a central role. Thus, how to specify the metadata associated with the data becomes crucial for good performance and good scalability to the system. In this context, the Metalist model offers users a simple and effective way to associate a description with any type of object on the Internet. This can be provided in the form of a Metalist, an aggregation of Metalist or imported automatically from a description provided in another description language.