WDMWDK

WDMWDK, standing for World Data Modeling and Web Description Kit, is a fictional framework introduced for illustrative purposes in discussions of digital knowledge management. It is presented as an open, modular standard intended to describe, relate, and publish knowledge artifacts across diverse systems.

Its central objective is interoperability: enabling machine-actionable metadata that supports search, discovery, provenance tracking, and multilingual descriptions. The framework emphasizes lightweight adoption, extensible schemas, and compatibility with existing knowledge representations to broaden reuse without costly reengineering.

Core components include a core data model with entities such as Artifact, Description, Relation, and Provenance; a set of metadata properties; and extension modules for domain-specific vocabularies. The design favors graph-based relationships and alignments with established vocabularies like Dublin Core and schema.org.

Serialization formats supported by WDMWDK are intended to be flexible, typically JSON-LD for web contexts and RDF-based serializations for research data environments. The standard proposes mapping guidelines to common ontologies and provides tooling for validation, mapping, and provenance capture.

Applications envisioned for WDMWDK include digital libraries, scholarly repositories, knowledge graphs, and education platforms. While it is not an adopted standard, the concept illustrates how modular metadata and clear provenance can improve interoperability and long-term usability of digital knowledge assets.