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Metadata

Metadata is "data about data" which allows computers to process information more effectively. It is similar to how a card in a card catalog would help you find a book in the library (if you can remember those days).

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• - Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
  
• - Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
  
• - Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Site describes ontologies for science.
  
• - Introduces basic Metadata concepts, major metadata standards or schemas, the relationship between new access mechanisms for digital library and traditional cataloguing methods, systems, software and tools for metadata creation, harvest and migration.
  
• - Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
  
• - Designed to provide for television, radio and Web activities a standard way of describing and using data. This allows content to be more easily retrieved and shared.
  
• - Task Group maintaining and developing Common European Research Information Format Metadata and database format. First published and supported by European Commission for research and scientific data sharing and exchange.
  
• - An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
  
• - David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
  
• - This is an interconnected network of distributed repositories of proof and explanation meta information.
  
• - Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.
  
• - Specification group to reference images, documents and multimedia files and to build common standard XML search queries. Includes a discussion group.
  
• - By Kathleen Forsythe and Diana Brooking. University of Washington.
  
• - Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
  
• - Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
  
• - The aim of the Metadata Tools and Services project - known as MetaWeb - is to develop indexing services, user tools, and metadata element sets in order to promote the use of, and exploitation of metadata on the Internet.
  
• - Defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine and mainstream journal content. PRISM is defined by a working group of IDEAlliance, a publishing industry association.
  
• - Netscape
  
• - Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.
  
• - Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
  
• - News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.
  
• - By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
  
• - Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
  
• - A collection of more than 65 rated, reviewed online resources in metadata cataloguing.
  
• - Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
  
• - Official home for documents, presentations and other resources related to the Canadian Core Learning Object Metadata Application Profile. The CanCore Profile is intended to facilitate the interchange of records describing educa
  
• - European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
  
• - A web content distribution method used by E-Commerce websites to share catalog data in a format easily interpreted by computer software. SSD is an XML 1.0 based markup language modeled after the RSS 2.0 specification.
  
• - Designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses provide information to search engines and directories in an open and distributed way. Includes documentation and source code.
  
• - Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
  
• - Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman, ONLINE.
  
• - Alexandria Digital Library
  
• - This standard describes the metadata that the National Archives of Australia recommends should be captured in the recordkeeping systems used by Commonwealth government agencies. The text of the standard is available in html, pdf, and downloadable as a zip
  
• - The AgMES project promotes the use of metadata in description of all document-like information objects in the domain of agriculture. It is an extension of the Dublin Core element set.
  
• - Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
  
• - IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
  
  

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