Metadata

Metadata

Metadata Links

• Metadata Information Clearinghouse A database of information on all sorts of metadata produced by the Association of American Publishers.
  
  
• Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
  
• Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman, ONLINE, January 1999
  
• What is Metadata? Alexandria Digital Library
  
• Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, Dublin Core, etc.
  
• The MetaWeb Project 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.
  
• Task Force on Metadata Committee on Cataloging: Description and Analysis. American Library Association.
  
• Metadata : Why should we care? By Kathleen Forsythe and Diana Brooking. University of Washington.
  
• Metadata.Net Home Page Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
  
• Metadata at W3C Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
  
• Index Data Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Cores and XML.
  
• XML & Metadata Developer Central Netscape
  
• Metadata projects, resources, workshops European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
  
• National Curriculum Metadata Standard Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
  
• UKOLN Metadata Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
  
• Building a Semantic Web Site Even though the Semantic Web may yet seem a remote dream, there are already tools one can use to make a tiny step forward by building "semantic web sites," which can be much easier to navigate than ordinary sites.
  
• Advanced Meta Data Architecture David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
  
• XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us. By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
  
• Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies 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 file.
  
• Meta Matters An excellent overview and guide to metadata (particularly Dublin Core) from the National Library of Australia.
  
• FASTER Metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
  
• Web Standards for Describing Data: Portions of the Landscape Slides from a talk given at the American Library Association Annual Conference meeting of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, Task Force on Metadata, June 27, 1999 by Eric Miller of OCLC and Diane Hillmann of Cornell University.