Educating Archivists and their Constituencies
Metadata Resources
GENERAL METADATA INFORMATION | METADATA SCHEMES | SELECTED METADATA PROJECTS | METADATA TOOLS
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html
This online publication is the work of the Getty Standards Program of the Getty Research Institute. Several authors contributed to the work which covers such topics as definitions of metadata, metadata and the World Wide Web, metadata mapping and interoperability, and crosswalks of metadata standards. A glossary and a list of acronym definitions are included.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
This site, sponsored by IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), provides links to dozens of other sites related to metadata, as well as to digital libraries.
Minnesota State Archives Metadata Resource List
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/meta.html
This annotated list of metadata resources is topically arranged and includes pointers to sites relating to the Dublin Core scheme, GILS, GIS, tools, projects, conferences, and standards.
GENERAL METADATA INFORMATION | METADATA SCHEMES | SELECTED METADATA PROJECTS | METADATA TOOLS
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is the recently re-designed and official site for the Dublin Core (DC) project. The fifteen-element metadata standard is the product of a series of a number of workshops which began in 1995. Intended to serve international users in a flexible manner, the elements are all optional, repeatable, and labeled with descriptive names. Metadata generated from this scheme may be represented in a number of ways (e.g., HTML, RDF) for use on the Internet. The new design has made it easier to find the latest information on such things as the DC element set, usage guides, tools, and the workshop series.
Government/Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.gils.net/index.html
This is the home page of the U.S. Federal GILS project, which is based upon the international information search standard ISO 10163 (ANSI Z39.50). The site contains general information about the project, as well as links to other federal, state, and international GILS ventures.
Minnesota Recordkeeping Metadata Standard (Minnesota Office of Technology Standard IRM 20)
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/metadatastandard.html
The Minnesota Recordkeeping Metadata Standard was developed to facilitate records management by government entities at any level of government. It is based directly on the standard authored by the National Archives of Australia, but has been adapted to meet the Minnesota government environment. The standard is comprised of twenty metadata elements, ten of which are mandatory.
National Archives of Australia: Recordkeeping Metadata Standard
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/summary.htm
Visitors to this site may view online or download the recordkeeping metadata standard (Version 1.0, May 1999) developed by the National Archives of Australia for use in Commonwealth government agencies. The standard is comprised of twenty basic metadata elements (eight of which are mandatory) and sixty-five sub-elements.
Federal Geographic Data Committee (GIS)
http://www.fgdc.gov/index.html
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/swgstat.html
This site is sponsored by the FGDC, which is made up of seventeen federal agencies. Working with such partners as state and local governments, the academic community, and industry, the FGDC is supervising the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) with the goal of sharing geographic data through standards, policies, and procedures. Through subcommittees and working groups, the FGDC has several geospatial data standards completed or in some stage of development. These include the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, the Cadastral Data Content Standard, the Spatial Data Transfer Standard, the Address Content Standard, and the Government Unit Boundary Data Content Standard.
W3C: Metadata and Resource Description
http://www.w3.org/Metadata/
Among other projects, the W3C metadata group is working on developing the Resource Description Framework (RDF) - "a foundation for processing metadata" that "provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web." RDF Schema Specification 1.0 was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation in March 2000.
GENERAL METADATA INFORMATION | METADATA SCHEMES | SELECTED METADATA PROJECTS | METADATA TOOLS
Bridges: Minnesota's Gateway to Environmental Information
http://bridges.state.mn.us/
The Bridges project represented a collaboration between Minnesota's environmental agencies with the goal of providing easy access to their electronic resources such as web pages, PDF documents, databases, and geographic data. Resources were cataloged using the Dublin Core metadata scheme and are located through a simple cross-agency search engine (the Ultraseek-powered North Star at the state's main portal). Although the project was completed in July 2000, the web site still offers a number of resources to visitors, including best practice guidelines for web metadata, information on metadata tools, project reports, as well as links to participating agencies, other regional and federal environmental sites, and the Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information.
IMS Global Learning Consortium Meta-Data Specification
http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/index.html
This is an Instructional Management Systems (IMS) project sponsored by EDUCOM in partnership with industry, standards organizations, and government. The group has developed metadata specifications, based in part upon Dublin Core elements, to facilitate the location and use of information resources for education available via the Internet. Version 1.2 of the IMS "Meta-data Specification" was released in May 2001 and is available in HTML and PDF forms; it is comprised of three parts: the Meta-data Information Model; the Meta-data XML Binding Specification; and the Meta-data Best Practices and Implementation Guide.
New South Wales: Recordkeeping Metadata
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publicsector/erk/metadata/rkmetadata.htm
The State Records Authority of the New South Wales Government has released drafts of its proposed recordkeeping metadata standard and accompanying technical specifications which are based, in part, upon similar standards from the National Archives of Australia.
Powered by Metadata
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/poweredbymeta.html
Learn about the Powered by Metadata symbol and metadata standards used by Minnesota government.
GENERAL METADATA INFORMATION | METADATA SCHEMES | SELECTED METADATA PROJECTS | METADATA TOOLS
TagGen (HiSoftware)
http://www.hisoftware.com/
HiSoftware's TagGen product allows the easy insertion and maintenance of metadata tags in web documents without disturbing other tags or page design. Of particular value to Minnesota state agencies is the Dublin Core edition, which is available free of charge to each through the Bridges Project ( http://bridges.state.mn.us/ ). Trial versions are available for free download from the HiSoftware site.
UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking) DC-Dot
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
This service retrieves user—specified web pages and generates HTML meta tags based upon the elements of the Dublin Core. The tool will also extract metadata from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. Tags can be converted into the following formats: USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS and RDF. As an additional utility, users can check the validity any Dublin Core web page metadata they may already have.
Reggie—The Metadata Editor
http://metadata.net/dstc/
The Reggie tool creates metadata using the HTML 3.2 standard, the HTML 4.0 standard, and the RDF (Resource Description Framework) format, with the results being e-mailed to the user. It can be used for the following metadata element sets and languages: Dublin Core, GILS, ANZLIC, AGLS, EdNA, IMS, GEM. The tool requires a familiarity with element set definitions, as well as the latest version of either the Netscape or Microsoft browser. The site is maintained by the Resource Discovery Unit of the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, which is supported by the Australian government.
July 01, 2002
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