- Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
Develops and promotes interoperability standards and metadata for the exchange of scholarly content. Includes information about Dublin Core, IEEE LOM, and OAI-PMH metadata standards.
www.openarchives.org
- Text Encoding Initiative
An international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries more generally.
www.tei-c.org
- FRBR Blog
Blog following the development of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the library metadata scheme and cataloging approach.
www.frbr.org
- Metadata Principles and Practicalities
Article about integrating and extending metadata on the World Wide Web. From the April 2002 issue of D-Lib.
www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed in XML. Maintained by the Library of Congress and the Digital Library Federation.
www.loc.gov/standards/mets
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
Library of Congress XML schema for bibliographic metadata and library applications. Intended to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records.
www.loc.gov/standards/mods
- Metadatabase Research: Enterprise Integration and Modeling
Information portal for education and research on enterprise integration and e-business. Includes information on entity relationship, subject oriented, and data flows oriented modeling.
viu.eng.rpi.edu
- Metadata and Resource Description
Overview of metadata development activities at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Includes information about the Semantic Web, Resource Description Framework, and other projects.
www.w3.org/Metadata
- Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
Directory of online resources about metadata, the data used id the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources. From the International Federation of Library Associations.
ifla.inist.fr/II/metadata.htm
- UKOLN Metadata
Review of approaches to metadata and resource description, as well as a look at developing projects and standards. From the UKOLN digital information management center at the University of Bath.
www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata
- IMS Metadata
Metadata schema for interoperable learning technology. From the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
www.imsproject.org/metadata
- Judy and Magda's List of Metadata Initiatives
1997 list of metadata schema and proposals that have the potential of being widely used as standards for the description of materials in an electronic environment.
www-personal.umich.edu/~jaheim/alcts/bibacces.htm
- Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
Online publication devoted to metadata, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to digital resources. Includes information about metadata and the world wide web, crosswalks, and a glossary.
www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata
- Position Papers from IEEE Metadata Workshop, May 1994
Position papers about metadata and data description standards, from the 1994 IEEE Metadata Workshop.
www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/papers/pos-papers-1994-05.html
- LISWiki: Metadata
Overview of metadata, including both bibliographic and website data description. Discusses metadata issues including standards development, Dublin Core, and geo tags. From LISWiki, a collective library and iinformation science resource.
www.liswiki.com/wiki/Metadata
- Metadata and Data Management Information Page
Information source for metadata and data management issues. Contains information on upcoming events, metadata workshops and conferences, and links to other resources. From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata
- Wikipedia: Metadata
Brief description of metadata, the information science term for information that describes a data set or document. Discusses the formal definition of metadata and its most common types.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata#External_links
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