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See also Cataloging Resources ; Internet Studies ; Computer Science
Core Metadata Elements
"Identification of a core set of metadata elements to be used in the development, testing, and implementation of multiple repositories."
Library of Congress Digital Repository Development
Data Administration Newsletter
"The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) is an internationally recognized publication that focuses on the management of data, information, and knowledge as valued corporate assets. TDAN.com was founded in 1997 by consultant and publisher Robert S. (Bob) Seiner and has grown to an audience of tens of thousands of readers."
DESIRE - (dead link)
Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education
"Aims to build an information infrastructure for the European academic community. It will develop tools to provide better support for multi-media information, to provide better indexing services and to provide better information management efforts."
Includes official reports, documents, and progress reports
EPA Scientific Metadata Standards Project - (dead link)
"The project is presently concerned primarily with developing a strategy for the EPA to develop, maintain, and provide access to metadata for EPA and related data sets. Specifically, the EPA is concerned with providing integrated metadata servers, which will support multiple metadata standards (e.g., GILS and FGDC) and multiple uses (browsing, system development, etc.)."
An Idiot's Guide to the Resource Description Framework - (dead link)
Originally published in The Review of Information Networking, Vol. 4, 1998 [updated 1999-01-25]
By Renato Iannella, The University of Queensland
Instructional Management Systems Project (IMS) Metadata
Developing a specification and software for managing online learning resources
Intelligent Archive - (dead link)
Provides scientist with advanced capabilities for organizing, and interacting with information and data
An Introduction to Metadata
By Chris Taylor, Manager, Information Access and Delivery Service, University of Queensland Library
Library of Congress Standards
"Several of the following are key standards used in the information community that are maintained by the Library of Congress. Their Web pages supply information on their maintenance and use. Other links below connect to information on the Library's collection of standards and key standards-settings organizations."
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
"As an XML schema, the "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records."
Metadata and Data Management Information Page - (dead link)
"This page is an information source for metadata and data management issues. It contains information on Upcoming Events, Metadata Workshops and Conferences, Mail Archives from the ieee-metadata@llnl.gov majordomo list, as well as pointers to other related information."
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Metadata for Digital Preservation: The Cedars Outline Specification
CURL exemplars in digital archives
Metadatabase Research: Enterprise Integration and Modeling
Describes an on-going international research effort on developing new information technologies for distributed and global enterprises, includes the use of CASE tool suite, brief bio-sketches of the researchers and their publications
METAe-news - (dead link)
The Newsletter to the Metadata Engine Project
Text Encoding Initiative
An international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts - available in English and Italian
UK-MEG
The UK's Metadata from Education Group
UKOLN Metadata
Reviews current approaches to resource description looks at future options for metadata in the wider context of resource discovery - includes both their publications and presentations on metadata issues
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