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Metadata (184)
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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Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata
· cached · Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.
Metadata.Net Home Page
· cached · Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
UKOLN Metadata
· iweb · cached · Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
Metadata at W3C
· cached · Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT)
· Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
University of Queensland: An Introduction to Metadata
· cached · Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
Resource Guide to Metadata
· iweb · cached · Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Describes ontologies for science.
EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group
· cached · 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.
MetaMap
· cached · An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
Index Data
· iweb · cached · Løser opgaver vedrørende håndtering af store databaser, distribueret information og søgning. Benytter bl.a. XML, Z39.50 og Dublin Core.
Metadata Gateway
· iweb · cached · 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.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
· iweb · cached · IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
Metacrap
· cached · Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
CanCore
· cached · 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 educational resources and the discovery of these resources both in Canada and beyond its borders.
FASTER
· cached · Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
Metadata Standards and Information Analysis
· cached · Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Specification
· iweb · cached · 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.
SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution)
· cached · 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.
National Curriculum Metadata Standard
· Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
EServer TC Library: Metadata
· iweb · cached · A collection of rated, reviewed online resources in cataloguing.
Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore)
· 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.
Metadata Research Center (MRC)
· iweb · cached · The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library (SILS) Metadata Research Center has been established to advance research in the area of metadata, semantics and ontologies.
AgMES - Schémas de métadonnées agricoles
· iweb · cached · L’initiative AgMES (Série d’éléments de métadonnées agricoles) a pour but de couvrir les questions liées aux normes sémantiques concernantes le domaine de l’agriculture.
Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
· iweb · cached · Background information and a technical specification for this metadata format.
Metadata projects, resources, workshops
· cached · European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management
· cached · News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.
ML Metadata
· cached · Provides an introduction and internet resources on metadata for the small library.
Electronic Scriptorium Ltd
· iweb · cached · Specializes in metadata and high value data conversion. It contracts work out to monks and nuns throughout the United States.
Visual Resources Association
· iweb · cached · Non-profit organization for advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. Features newsletter, conferences, contacts and membership details.
Advanced Meta Data Architecture
· iweb · cached · David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us.
· iweb · cached · By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
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