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Information by Canadian
Organizations
Organised alphabetically by department, then document name.
CanCore
Canadian Core Learning Object Metadata
Application Profile (CanCore)
This site is the 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.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
Council of Federal Libraries
Government of Canada Metadata Implementation Guide for Web Resources,
4th Edition
Government On-Line Metadata Working Group - Training Sub-group
Last revision: October 2005
This Guide is intended for metadata developers responsible for creating and maintaining Dublin Core metadata for federal Web sites. According to Common Look and Feel for the Internet Standard 6.3
( http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf-nsi/inter/inter-06-03_e.asp), it is mandatory for federal Web sites to include descriptive metadata about the content of Web resources. The Guide explains what metadata is, why it is important and offers practical assistance for creating metadata content for federal government Web resources in accordance with Treasury Board metadata standards. The appendices to the Guide include a list of Web resources on metadata policies and practices and an example of metadata source code in HTML.
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel; Guidelines;
Implementation
Environment Canada
Green Lane Site Search
This site utilizes metadata to provide improved search capabilities for clients. The
keyword search (field-based search) option searches a database of metadata records that
describe information resources originating from the National Capital Region and the
Prairie and Northern Regions.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices
Report to the Green Lane Management Committee The Green Lane
Management Committee Information Management and Metadata Task-Group. March 23, 2001
This report summarizes the regional discussions of a strategy for Environment Canada's
Green Lane information management (IM) and metadata implementation. This report represents
the summarized consensus of a large number of departmental staff and will be used in the
strategic development of the department-wide as well as Green Lane information management
and metadata implementation strategies.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Metadata Standards: State of Play
Nora Fontaine. Presentation to GOL Metadata Working Group.
This presentation, on behalf of the GOL Ad Hoc Inter-departmental Metadata Working Group,
discusses the role of metadata in meeting GOL objectives.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Government of Canada
Government of
Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
The Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual standardized vocabulary designed to facilitate the
indexing and retrieval of resources available through the Depository Services Program (DSP),
Canadian Government Publishing (CGP), and the Canada Site.
See also Topic(s): Controlled Vocabulary and
Thesauri
Guidelines
for Search Services on Web Sites
Resource Discovery Sub-group
Effective Date: March 19, 2003
This document is intended for content producers, system administrators and
business managers. It attempts to document best practices for managing search engines, recognizing that the quality of the search result depends on a number
of factors.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
See also IMRC – Resource Discovery
Sub-Group; IMRC – GOL Metadata Working
Group
Guidelines
for Writing Descriptions for Government of Canada Web Sites
This document provides guidance on the creation of Dublin Core element <dc.description>,
which is not a mandatory Common Look and Feel element, as well as the HTML Description
tag. Both should show the same content.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
Indexing Federal Government
Web Pages: Guidelines for the Development of an Indexing Policy
These guidelines were developed by members of the GOL Metadata Working Group during the
summer of 2002 and were approved at the September 17, 2002 meeting. This document targets
departments developing indexing policies for the population of the Common Look and Feel
mandatory element <dc.subject>.
See also Topic(s):
Guidelines
Metadata status within the GC.CA
domain
An analysis of the metadata on Web sites within the GC.CA domain was conducted in December 2003 as part of a review of
the contents of the Canada Site search engine. The analysis used a set of randomly chosen Web pages that were
published on Government of Canada (GC) Web sites that exist in the GC.CA domain. The metadata from these pages was
compared against the published metadata standards that exist for GC Web sites.
See also Topic: Metadata Quality
Metadata Brochure -
RTF
This brochure describes the nature of metadata and is a useful handout to include as part
of a training session. The brochure is available in two formats: HTML and RTF. For text
only, see the HTML version. For the
fully formatted and printable brochure, see
the RTF version. Please note that the RTF version was designed to be a bilingual,
one-sheet handout. The file is, therefore, optimized for duplex printing so that the
English version will appear on one side of the page and the French version on the other.
See also Topic(s): Training
Metadata Implementation Guide
for Clusters and Gateways CMS Metadata Working Group
Last Revision: April 2003
These guidelines are intended to assist those responsible for implementing the
metadata requirements for Government On-Line (GOL) clusters and gateways. They
provide supplemental guidance to the Council of Federal Libraries' Government of Canada Metadata
Implementation Guide for Web Resources developed for departmental metadata
managers and metadata developers.
See
also Topic(s): Guidelines; Implementation
Record
Keeping Metadata Requirements for the Government of Canada
Government of Canada. Information Management Forum. January 2001 (PDF format)
This document was developed by the Records / Document / Information Management (RDIMS)
Working Group on Work Processes and Practices (WGWPP) and has been endorsed by the
Information Management sub-group on Metadata. The paper describes the function of metadata
in recordkeeping, including discussion of element descriptions. Record Keeping Metadata is
defined broadly to include the type of information Departments are required to capture to
describe the identify, authenticity, content, context, structure and management
requirements of records created in the context of a business activity.
See also Topic(s): Records Management
Regions
of Canada Scheme
Geographic Coverage Sub-Group
This scheme was created by the Geographic Coverage Sub-group of the Government On-Line
Metadata Working Group. The document gives the rationale behind a suggested set of regions
of Canada that is usable for classifying sites for the Government Online (GOL) initiative
and provides some basic criteria needed for these regions, as well as a table giving the
regions and their definitions.
See also Topic(s): Schemas
See also IMRC - Geographic Coverage Sub-Group;
IMRC - GOL Metadata Working Group
Selecting
and Implementing a Metadata Standard for the Government of Canada
Government On-Line Ad hoc Interdepartmental Metadata Working Group. March 22, 2001
The objective of this paper is to raise awareness among senior managers, webmasters and
information management practitioners about the need for systematic metadata and the
selection of Dublin Core as a metadata standard with potential for use in diverse
government applications. The paper discusses the pressing need for a standard, the process
by which a standard has been selected, gaining broader approval, and the work needed to
implement the standard.
See also Topic(s): Resource Discovery
Type
Scheme
<dc.type> Sub-Group
The Government of Canada Type Scheme was created by the <dc.type%gt; Sub-Group of the
GOL Metadata Working Group. The scheme is to be used as a source of standardized
terminology for the indexing and retrieval of resources by type. Its main function is to
standardize the external form and meaning of index terms, thus ensuring that a particular
resource type will always be represented in the same way in the index.
See also Topic(s): Schemas
See also IMRC - <dc.type> Sub-Group;
IMRC - GOL Metadata Working Group
Usage Guidelines: dc.type
<dc.type> Sub-group
Effective Date: February 7, 2003
The "dc.type" element is
used to describe the nature, genre, purpose, function and aggregation level of
the content of the resource. It is important not to confuse "type"
with "subject" (what the resource is about) or "format" (physical
manifestation or file format, such as mpeg, wav, etc. of the resource).
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
See also IMRC – <dc.type Sub-Group>;
IMRC – GOL Metadata Working Group
Government of Ontario
Metadata Basic Content
Requirements
Management Board Secretariat
This standard describes the data elements to be used when collecting and describing core
content Metadata for information resources.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Health Canada
Canadian Health Network
The Canadian Health Network (CHN) is a national, bilingual Internet-based health
information service. This site illustrates the use of metadata to facilitate client
searches for health information.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices
Industry Canada
IMQA
Processes and Checklists
With these practical processes and checklists, the Information Management Quality
Assurance team of Industry Canada reviews all new web applications to ensure conformity
with Government of Canada requirements such as Common Look and Feel (CLF) and Official
Languages consistency.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices
IMRC - The
Metadata Tagging of the Business Start-Up Assistant
The objective of this report is to document the processes, resources and tools
used for the application of metadata to the links in the
Business Start-Up
Assistant (BSA), but moreover, to measure metadata tagging activities.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices;
Implementation;
Tools
National Library of Canada
Bath Profile Maintenance Agency
This Profile defines searching across multiple servers to improve international and
extranational search and retrieval among library catalogues, union catalogues, and other
electronic resources worldwide. It also describes and specifies a subset to allow basic
cross-domain search and retrieval of networked resources including library catalogues,
government information, museum systems, and archives.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
Canadian <Metadata>
Forum
The Canadian <Metadata> Forum was held on September 19-20, 2003 at Library and
Archives Canada. Presentations were given on all aspects of metadata including
descriptions of standards developing in different communities for different applications;
discussions of challenges of interoperability between different types of resources; and
examples of practical implementations leveraging the power of metadata for Web resource
exposure, discovery and management.
See also Topic(s): Event Highlights
Persistent Locators
for Federal Government Publications
This study was conducted in February and March 2002 to review existing research and
current practice with respect to persistent locators/digital object identifiers and to
recommend steps to implement a system of persistent uniform resource locators in federal
government publishing.
See also Topic(s): Persistence
Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs)
Terry Kuny
February 15, 1996
One of the primary metadata problems that must be solved to ensure the accurate
and reliable retrieval of Internet information is how to describe where information
is "marked-and-parked" so that people may retrieve it easily. Persistent Uniform
Resource Locators (PURLs), as currently deployed by OCLC Inc. in the United States,
represents a significant effort to address this problem
See also Topic(s): Persistence
Registering a
Standardized Vocabulary
The NLC is mandated by the Treasury Board Information and Technology Standard TBITS 39.2, Controlled Vocabulary
Standard as registrar of standardized vocabularies used in the Government of Canada (GoC).
The function of this Registry is two-fold: To make standardized vocabularies available to
search engines, information creators and those involved in developing and maintaining
vocabularies; To provide a centralized mechanism of schema identification for use in
metadata elements for GoC departments and agencies.
See also Topic(s): Controlled Vocabulary and
Thesauri
Thesauri and
Controlled Vocabularies
The National Library maintains an authoritative Web page on terminology used in the
federal government of Canada. The web page includes thesauri, classification schemes,
controlled vocabularies, geographic names, subject clusters and taxonomies. Links to
compendia compiled by experts in the field, construction and management tools, related
research, projects and standards have also been included.
See also Topic(s): Controlled Vocabulary and
Thesauri
Natural Resources Canada
Natural Resources Canada Common Look and Feel Standards
This is the latest version of the NRCan metadata template for Web pages, amended to
reflect changes to the Treasury Board Common Look and Feel Metadata Standard. (Being revised)
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel
Successful Metadata Implementation and Lessons Learned
Bev Kouri (Natural Resources
Canada)
Sara McKenzie (Treasury
Board of Canada Secretariat)
Presentation at IM Day. September 13, 2002
Departments and agencies faced with the task of implementing metadata for documents in
their Web sites will be interested in hearing about the experiences of others who have
gone before them. These links include presentations on two successful metadata
initiatives, each of which took a different approach.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Building the Foundation for
Citizen-Focussed, Cross-Jurisdictional Information Sharing and Delivery: Content
Management and Standard Metadata
Helen Jelich, Public Works and Government Services Canada
Laurie Sweezie, Management Board of Cabinet, Government of Ontario
This presentation describes the Government of Canada initiative to develop a robust
content management solution to support the Government On-Line service delivery goals of
Gateways and Clusters. It describes the drivers and challenges involved in realizing
those goals; how the experience of the Clusters and Gateways was leveraged in designing
the solution; and the key role of standard metadata.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
Newsroom Search
Supporting the Communications Policy and Implementing the Management of Government
Information policy, the Newsroom is the first GoC enterprise wide Web-based news
multi-channel publishing and distribution service available for free to Government
of Canada institutions. The Newsroom was developed to provide the media and
citizens with a convenient single source for GoC news in both official languages
that is distributed via the Web, Wireless devices and RSS. The Search function for
the Newsroom is metadata-driven.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices
Treasury Board Secretariat
Common Look and Feel Standard 6.3
All GoC Web sites must adopt the following five metatags as a metadata standard for
description of Web resources: Title, Creator, Language, Date and Subject.
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel; Standards
Departmental Examples
This section includes links to Government of Canada sub-sites considered to be in
accordance with Common Look & Feel Standard 6.3,
under which all GoC web sites must adopt Title, Creator, Language, Date, and Subject as
metatags for the description of Web resources.
See also Topic(s): Best Practices; Common Look and Feel
Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) for Web Resource Discovery in the Government of Canada
Treasury Board Secretariat
March 25, 2006
The purpose of the Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) for Web Resource Discovery in the Government of Canada is to document how the Government of Canada (GC) uses Dublin Core (DC) terms to describe its Web resources. It identifies and describes the attributes of the terms for the metadata elements and refinements maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) that the GC has adopted to aid discovery of its Web resources. The profile also identifies recommended registered encoding schemes for use when applying the element values.
See also Topic(s): Application Profile
Government of Canada Metadata
Framework
The Government of Canada (GoC) Metadata Framework establishes a strategy for the
development of metadata within the GoC. The Framework shows the relationship between the
generic international standard adopted by the GoC (the Dublin Core) and other extensions
for specific subject domains or purposes.
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel; Records Management
Information Management
Standards to Improve Access to Government Information and Services
Presentation to the Electronic Service Delivery Committee. Nancy Brodie. June 4, 2001
This presentation provides an overview on the need to adopt Information Management
Standards for the Government of Canada. Included is a review of the Metadata Framework for
Information Resources, adoption of Dublin Core as a core GoC metadata standard for
resource discovery as well as a Controlled Vocabulary Standard incorporating a Core
Subject Thesaurus.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Metadata
Implementation Guide for Clusters and Gateways
CMS Metadata Working Group
These guidelines are intended to assist those responsible for implementing the metadata
requirements for Government On-line (GOL) clusters and gateways. They provide supplemental
guidance to the Council of Federal Libraries' Government of Canada (GoC) Metadata
Implementation Guide developed for departmental metadata developers and managers, as
well as guidance for some additional Dublin Core elements and cluster-specific elements.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
Metadata Training
Package
A training package is now available to assist instructors in providing metadata training
in their departments. The package consists of three components: 1) a trainers' manual that
provides suggestions and instructions on how to teach the course and engage the
participants; 2) a presentation that instructors can use during their training sessions;
3) a participant workbook that can be used as a reference guide by participants during and
after the session. Trainers are encouraged to modify these components to suit the needs of
their audience.
See also Topic(s): Training
Recommendations for Common Look and Feel Standards and Guidelines for Intranets and Extranets (CLFIE)
October 7, 2003
In June 2001 Treasury Board Secretariat, under the auspices of the Internet Advisory Committee, organized an interdepartmental Working Group tasked with developing recommendations for CLF Standards and Guidelines for implementation on institutional intranets and extranets. These recommendations, modeled on standards and guidelines for the Internet, are presented in this document.
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel
Successful Metadata Implementation and Lessons Learned
Bev Kouri (Natural Resources
Canada)
Sara McKenzie (Treasury
Board of Canada Secretariat)
Presentation at IM Day. September 13, 2002
Departments and agencies faced with the task of implementing metadata for documents in
their Web sites will be interested in hearing about the experiences of others who have
gone before them. These links include presentations on two successful metadata
initiatives, each of which took a different approach.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
TBITS 39: Treasury
Board Information Management Standard, Part 1: Government On-Line Metadata Standard November
8, 2001
This standard adopts the Dublin Core as specified at http://www.dublincore.org/
as the core metadata standard for resource sharing and interoperability goals of
Government On-Line. Establishing a metadata standard will ensure that, across domains and
clusters and business functions, the effort that goes into assigning metadata is
coordinated, cost effective and client-service focused.
See also Topic(s): Standards
TBITS 39: Treasury
Board Information Management Standard, Part 2: Controlled Vocabulary Standard November
8, 2001
This standard adopts the principle of controlled vocabulary for the management of
electronic information. The use of controlled vocabulary is necessary to classify and
describe information and to support navigation, searching, information sharing and
interoperability goals of Government On-Line (GOL).
See also Topic(s): Controlled Vocabulary and
Thesauri; Standards
Université de Montréal
MetaMap
Professor James Turner
The MetaMap is a pedagogical graphic that takes the form of a subway map. Its aim is to
help the information science community to understand metadata standards, sets, and
initiatives of interest in this area.
See also Topic(s): Training
International Organizations
Organized alphabetically by governance body, then document title.
Australia
AGLS
Victoria: Metadata Implementation Manual
The AGLS Victoria: Metadata Implementation Manual provides Victorian Government
departmental and agency staff with practical advice and recommended approaches to the
implementation and management of AGLS (Australia Government Locator Service) compliant
metadata.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
Australian
Government Locator Service
The National Archives of Australia is the maintenance agency for the Australian Government
Locator Service (AGLS) metadata standard. The AGLS metadata standard is a set of 19
descriptive elements which government departments and agencies can use to improve the
visibility and accessibility of their services and information over the Internet. The
standard is based upon the leading international online resource discovery metadata
standard, the Dublin Core standard.
See also Topic(s): Standards
eGovernment Resource Centre - Metadata Standards
State of Victoria, Australia
This site includes information on the use of metadata within the Victorian Government, as
well as links to metadata standards, policies and schemas from governments around the
world.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Guidelines for the
Creation of Content for Resource Discovery Metadata
National Library of Australia
These guidelines are intended to assist with the creation of quality, consistent
descriptive metadata for online resources that will improve resource discovery services
for these resources.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines; Resource Discovery
Information Management - Metadata Module
education.au limited, Australia
Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)
This course unit on metadata has been developed by education.au limited to meet a need for
learning about metadata use in Australian education and training. education.au limited
administers the EdNA Metadata Standard.
See also Topic(s): Training
Metadata.net
Distributed Systems Technology Centre - Resource Discovery Unit.
This site contains a variety of metadata resources, including projects, tools and
services, and a metadata schema registry.
See also Topic(s): Schemas; Tools
Recordkeeping
Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies
National Archives of Australia
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 standard is designed to be used as a reference tool by agency corporate managers, IT
personnel and software vendors involved in the design, selection and implementation of
electronic recordkeeping and related information management systems. It defines a basic
set of 20 metadata elements (eight of which constitute a core set of mandatory metadata)
and 65 sub-elements that may be incorporated within such systems, and explains how they
should be applied within the Commonwealth sphere.
See also Topic(s): Records Management; Standards
See also IMRC - Records and Document Management
Resource Discovery Unit (RDU)
Distributed Systems Technology Centre
The RDU investigates and develops tools, technologies, and information management
processes that will allow organisations to locate, access, retrieve, and manage
information on highly distributed heterogeneous networks. The site includes links to
metadata prototypes, publications, and presentations.
See also Topic(s): Tools
SPIRT
Recordkeeping Metadata Standards Project
Montash University - Records Continuum Research Group (RCRG)
Working within the context of a range of metadata related initiatives in Australia and
elsewhere, the Recordkeeping Metadata Project aims to comprehensively specify and codify
recordkeeping metadata in ways that enable it to be fully understood and deployed both
within and beyond the records and archives profession.
See also Topic(s): Records Management; Standards
See also IMRC - Records and Document Management
Web Site Metadata
Strategies and Guidelines
National Library of Australia
This document outlines the Library's metadata strategies for assigning metadata to
resources hosted on the National Library of Australia Web site. The aim of assigning such
metadata is to enhance access to resources on the site through the Library's own Site
Search facility and through services such as the Commonwealth Government Search Engine.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
Belgium
Normes de métadonnées, les
Conférence permanente du développement territorial - CPDT (PDF format)
This document provides a concise overview of existing and proposed metadata standards.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
DCMI
Elements and Element Refinements
This document presents a snapshop of all current elements and element refinements
maintained by the DCMI Usage Board.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
DCMI
Encoding Schemes - a current list
This document presents all encoding schemes currently maintained by the DCMI Usage Board.
See also Topic(s): Schemas
DCMI term declarations
represented in XML schema language
XML Schemas provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML
documents, including metadata. These support the encoding of Qualified Dublin Core
metadata records, including the use of element refinements and encoding schemes, and
follow the conventions described in the Guidelines for expressing Dublin Core in XML.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Schemas; XML
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, The
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of
interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and
business models.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
Dublin Core Tools and Software
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
This page includes links to utilities, metadata templates, tools for creating templates,
automatic extraction, gathering, and production of metadata, conversion between formats,
integrated (tool) environments, and commercially available software.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Tools
Expressing
Qualified Dublin Core in RDF/XML
Steffan Kokkelink, Roland Schwanzl. Universitat Osnabruck.
April 14, 2002
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
This document describes how qualified Dublin Core metadata can be encoded in Resource
Description Framework (RDF) / Extensible Markup Language (XML) and gives practical
examples.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; XML
Expressing
Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML
Dave Beckett. Institute for Learning and Research Technology.
July 31, 2002
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
This document explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) in
Resource Description Framework (RDF) / Extensible Markup Language (XML), provides a
Document Type Definition (DTD) to validate the documents and describes a method to link
them from web pages.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; XML
Extensible Open RDF Toolkit (EOR)
The goal of the EOR (Extensible Open Rdf) Toolkit is to seamlessly integrate all the
components needed to build a generic web search interface of RDF Models. This toolkit as
such provides the basic building blocks for supporting search services, topic-maps,
site-maps, annotation environments and semantic metadata registries based on RDF.
See also Topic(s): Tools
Guidelines for the Dublin Core Metadata Element Audience and the Government of Canada Audience Scheme
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
Guidelines
for Implementing Dublin Core in XML
Andy Powell and Pete Johnson. University of Bath. April 2, 2003
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
This document provides guidelines for people implementing Dublin Core metadata
applications using XML. It considers both simple (unqualified) DC and qualified DC
applications. In each case, the underlying metadata model is described (in a syntax
neutral way), followed by some specific guidelines for XML implementations. Some guidance
on the use of non-DC metadata within DC metadata applications is also provided.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; XML
Library
Application Profile
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
The concept of application profiles has emerged within the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative as a way to declare which elements from which namespaces are used in a
particular application or project. The DCMI-Libraries Working Group has explored various
uses of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in library and related applications and has
envisioned five possible uses.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
Metadata
Principles and Practicalities
Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton and Stuart Weibel
D-Lib Magazine. April 2002
Sources of metadata, like the sources of the resources themselves, will be of different
quality and organized around different purposes to reflect the different objectives and
business models of information providers. This paper expresses some common understandings
about metadata principles and practicalities that two metadata communities agree to be at
the heart of their work.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
Proceedings of the 2003 Dublin Core Conference
The 2003 Dublin Core Conference took place at the Information School, University of
Washington in October 2003. The Dublin Core Conference has emerged as a rich source
of technical papers squarely focused on practical, down-to-earth library issues. The
online proceedings are grouped into 7 categories: Organizations and Domains; Activities;
Applications; Standards; Conference Track; Author; and Author Affiliation.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Event Highlights
State
of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 2003
Makx Dekkers and Stuart Weibel
D-Lib Magazine. April 2003
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative continues to grow in participation and recognition as
the predominant resource discovery metadata standard on the Internet. With its approval as
ISO 15836, DC is firmly established as a foundation block of modular, interoperable
metadata for distributed resources. This report summarizes developments in DCMI over the
past year, including the annual conference, progress of working groups, new developments
in encoding methods, and advances in documentation and dissemination. New developments in
broadening the community to commercial users of metadata are discussed, and plans for an
international network of national affiliates are described.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
Training Resources
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
Members of the DCMI Community have provided access to their training materials for
applying Dublin Core metadata to a number of different projects.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Training
Using
Dublin Core
Diane Hillmann. April 12, 2001
This document is intended as an entry point for Dublin Core users. For non-specialists, it
will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for
example, electronic documents). Specialists may find the document a useful point of
reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes and grows.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
European Committee for Standardization
Workshop
on Dublin Core metadata
The MMI-DC Workshop, at the European level, provides an open forum in which Dublin Core
metadata standards related issues get addressed. The Workshop's activities are
complementary to the work done within the international DCMI context. The Workshop has
recently finished and approved a number of CEN Workshop Agreements. Awaiting their
publication by CEN, the final drafts are made available from this page.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
European Union
European Union SCHEMAS Project
Forum for Metadata Schemas Implementers
schemas provides a forum for metadata schema designers involved in projects under the IST
Programme and national initiatives in Europe to inform schema implementers about the
status and proper use of new and emerging metadata standards. Metadata Watch is intended to
build a broad and comprehensive list of projects, programmes, software tools and
guidelines that use -- or describe how to use -- metadata schemas.
See also Topic(s): Schemas
Identifying Metadata
Elements with URIs
D-Lib Magazine, July/Aug. 2003
Thomas Baker and Makx Dekkers
On 18 November 2002, at a meeting organised by the CORES Project (Information Society
Technologies Programme, European Union), several organisations regarded as maintenance
authorities for metadata elements achieved consensus on a resolution to assign Uniform
Resource Identifiers (URIs) to metadata elements as a useful first step towards the
development of mapping infrastructures and interoperability services.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
International - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United
Kingdom and the United States
Multilateral Interoperability Programme
The Multilateral Interoperability Programme was established by the Project Managers of the Army
Command and Control Information Systems (C2IS) of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom
and the United States of America in April 1998 in Calgary, Canada.
The purpose of this Site is to provide the general public with information about the
Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP). By following the topical links, you will
find information about various facets of the Programme.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
International DOI Foundation
DOI Handbook v.3.2
The DOI Handbook (Version 3.2, released August 2003) is the primary source of information
about the DOI. It discusses the components and operation of the DOI system, and provides
a central point of reference for technical information. The Handbook is updated regularly.
The main Chapters of the Handbook give a complete explanation of the DOI system. The
Handbook moves from an overview, through an explanation of each of the components of the
system, to detail on how applications are built and the operation of the DOI system
through IDF and its Registration Agencies.
See also Topic(s): Persistence
International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA)
International Standards Organization (ISO)
ISO 15836 - Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set standard has been approved. This link includes the
final text of the ISO 15836 standard, the balloting report, and the response to comments.
This approval is a welcome culmination of an incremental process to bring the Dublin Core
metadata element set to a broad worldwide constituency. As an international standard, it
will be easier for many organizations to adopt and promote the use of Dublin Core to
enhance resource discovery using the Internet. Dublin Core is the only cross-domain
resource discovery standard developed and standardized through an open standards process.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Standards
ISO/IEC
11179-3: Information technology - Metadata registries (MDR) - Part 3: Registry metamodel
and basic attributes
International Standards Organization (ISO) (ZIP file containing PDF version)
This part of ISO/IEC 11179 provides
for the attributes of data elements and associated metadata to be specified and registered
as metadata items in a Metadata Registry. The structure of a Metadata Registry is
specified in the form of a conceptual data model. The Metadata Registry is used to
keep information about data elements and associated concepts, such as "data element
concepts", "conceptual domains" and "value domains". Generically,
these are all referred to as "metadata items". Such metadata are necessary to
clearly describe, record, analyse, classify and administer data. Note: The link above goes
to a ZIP file containing the PDF version of the document.
See also Topic(s): Standards
New Zealand
Describing Services For A Metadata-Driven Portal
John Roberts, Archives New Zealand. August 2002.
This paper describes New Zealand E-government activities supporting the discovery of
services through the use of Dublin Core-based New Zealand Government Locator Service
(NZGLS) metadata. It notes the issues faced in collecting service metadata from agencies
to populate a new whole-of-government portal. The paper then considers the adequacy of
the metadata schema for service description, and identifies a difficulty in applying
definitions that refer to the content of the resource to a process-like resource such as
a service.
See also Topic(s): Service Descriptions
See also IMRC - Web
Portals and Clusters
New Zealand
Government Implementation of a DC-based Standard: Lessons Learned, Future Issues
This paper summarises key implementation issues encountered with the New Zealand
Government's discovery level Dublin Core-based metadata standard, NZGLS. In particular, it
discusses the processes used to create and manage NZGLS-compliant metadata throughout New
Zealand's core public service agencies.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
New Zealand Government Locator Service Metadata and Thesauri
The New Zealand Government Locator Service (NZGLS) project will define the structure of
the descriptions government agencies will apply to their information and services.
See also Topic(s): Controlled Vocabulary
and Thesauri; Standards
New
Zealand Government Locator Service (NZGLS) Metadata Standard and Reference Manual
A reference manual setting out the NZGLS metadata standard for the location of New Zealand
government information and services.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Preservation
Metadata - Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New Zealand
Sam Searle and Dave Thompson, National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ)
D-Lib Magazine. April 2003
This article introduces the NLNZ Preservation Metadata Schema, describes the environment
in which it was conceived and identifies areas of further development, which will include:
developing data definitions for the elements in the schema; designing a repository based
on those data definitions; investigating and developing tools for automatically extracting
metadata to populate the repository.
See also Topic(s): Preservation; Schemas
Recordkeeping
Metadata Standard Scoping Paper
Archives New Zealand
Development of a Recordkeeping Metadata Standard is one of the projects in the 2003 / 04
work plan for Archives New Zealand's Government Recordkeeping Group. This scoping paper
recommends the scope and proposed approach for the development of a Recordkeeping Metadata
Standard. Together with the project plan, this constitutes the first stage in development
of the Standard. The scoping paper outlines the purpose of a Recordkeeping Metadata
Standard, its background and legislative context, and presents key issues for the scope of
the Standard. It also recommends a development process for the Standard, which is
described in more detail in the project plan.
See also Topic(s): Records Management;
Standards
See also IMRC - Records and Document Management
Nordic Metadata Initiative
Nordic Metadata Initiative
The Nordic Metadata I project created basic elements of a metadata production and
utilization system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The Nordic Metadata II
Project includes enhancement of the existing Dublin Core specification, creation of a
Dublin Core to MARC converter, and the evaluation of Dublin Core user support and tools.
See also Topic(s): Tools
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Persistent URL
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc
A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However,
instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an
intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the
actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL
transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect.
See also Topic(s): Persistence
Open Archives Initiative
Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to
facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
The European Library (TEL)
Interim Report on Metadata Development in TEL
The main objective of the metadata workpackage of TEL is to find out which metadata are
needed for providing the desired TEL functionality and how this should be implemented or
encoded to obtain an integrated, consistent presentation of data obtained from
inhomogeneous sources.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
Report on the
Functionality of TEL Metadata (PDF)
The purpose of this report is to establish the basis for a common data model to be used
by the participants in TEL for sharing metadata. This data model will be represented by
the TEL Application Profile, which is list of terms with characteristics for each term.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
Review of Current Practices
and State of the Art
This report is the first deliverable of work package 3 (WP3), dealing with metadata that
will become available through the European Library portal. The core of the report
consists of an analysis of responses to a questionnaire, which deals with various aspects
of metadata, such as terminology, creation, availability, exchangeability and linking
mechanisms.
See also Topic(s): Application
Profiles
United Kingdom
2002
requirements for electronic records management systems
Public Record Office
The Public Record Office updated the functional requirements for electronic records
management systems (ERMS) in collaboration with the central government records management
community during 2002. There are three documents, which should be read together for
complete comprehension, as there are important interdependencies. The Metadata Standard
sets out the implications for records management metadata in compliant systems. It has
been agreed with the Office of the e-Envoy that this document will form the basis for an
XML schema to support the exchange of records metadata and promote interoperability
between ERMS and between ERMS and other systems.
See also Topic(s): Records Management
See also IMRC - Records and Document Management
e-Government
Metadata Framework and the Government Category List
UK GovTalk.
The UK Government's e-Government Interoperability Programme Web site covers all aspects
relating to the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) and the e-Government
Metadata Framework (e-GMF). It provides repositories for draft and agreed XML schemas,
best practice and case studies, and also advice on toolkits and other relevant
information.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
e-Government
Metadata Standard e-GMS
The e-GMS lists the elements and refinements that will be used by the United Kingdom
public sector to create metadata for information resources. It also gives guidance on the
purpose and use of each element.
See also Topic(s): Standards
Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation
One-Day Workshop, York, England. December 6, 2000
This conference examined current issues surrounding the preservation of digital materials,
including perspectives of managing national digital collections, models for distributed
digital archives, practical aspects of digital preservation, authenticity and
authentication of digital preservation, collaborative efforts and information
infrastructures.
See also Topic(s): Preservation
Metadata
for the Web - RDF and the Dublin Core
Andy Powell. UK Office for Library and Information Networking.
University of Bath. July 1998
This paper provides a brief introduction to Resource Description Framework (RDF), looking
at the RDF model and its associated syntax based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
It describes RDF schemas, the mechanism by which the generic RDF architecture can be used
to hold application specific metadata. Finally, it gives an introduction to the Dublin
Core, a simple set of metadata elements aimed at improving resource discovery on the Web,
which appears likely to become one of the early adopters of RDF as its preferred syntax.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core
UK Office for Library and
Information Networking (UKOLN)
UKOLN is a national centre for digital information management. It provides services to the
library, information and cultural heritage communities. Its goals are to influence policy
and inform practice; advance the state of the art and to contribute to knowledge; build
useful and innovative distributed systems and services; and promote community building and
consensus-making through awareness and events services.
See also Topic(s): Schemas
United States
AmeGA Project Final Report
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce publications of the final report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata
Generation Applications) project.
The Automatic Metadata Generation Applications (AMeGA) project, which was conducted in conjunction with the
Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of Congress Action Plan, addresses the challenge of metadata
generation for digital resources.
See also Topic(s): Tools
AskDCMI - Virtual Reference Service
This service is based on the virtual reference infrastructure developed by the Information
Institute of Syracuse as part of the Virtual Reference Desk project. A number of experts
from the DCMI Usage Board and the Advisory Board have agreed to be available to answer
questions from the community. Selected questions and answers will be available in a
searchable archive.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core; Tools
Flamenco Search Interface Project
The University of California - Berkley is creating a search interface framework, called
Flamenco, whose primary design goal is to allow users to move through large information
spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the
explicit exposure of hierarchical faceted metadata, both to guide the user toward possible
choices, and to organize the results of keyword searches.
See also Topic(s): Controlled
Vocabulary and Thesauri
Generation
of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards
D-Lib Magazine, September 2003
Kimberly S. Lighte and Judith S. Ridgway
This paper describes the process that Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) staff went
through to develop crosswalks between metadata based on three different standards and the
generation of the corresponding XML records. ENC needed to generate different flavors of
XML records so that metadata would be displayed correctly in catalog records generated
through different digital library interfaces.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability;
XML
Guidelines for Electronic
Text Encoding and Interchange (P3)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium
The TEI is an international project to develop guidelines for the encoding of textual
material in electronic form for research purposes.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
IMS Learning
Resource Metadata Best Practices and Implementation Guide
IMS Global Learning Consortium. 2001.
The purpose of the IMS guide is to provide assistance in applying metadata elements to
learning objects in order to enhance their online retrieval. The guide includes a
discussion of the use of vocabularies and taxonomies.
See also Topic(s): Implementation
Introduction
to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
John Paul Getty Research Institute. Murtha Baca (ed.)
The Getty Research Institute site includes several metadata research articles. Topics
covered include defining and categorizing metadata, the importance of metadata, facts
about metadata and the life cycle of information objects.
See also Topic(s): Training
Metadata
Guidelines for Collections using CONTENTdm
University of Washington Libraries
Metadata Implementation Group
This document provides guidelines for persons wishing to mount digital collections using
CONTENTdm software and includes an explanation of how metadata is used by CONTENTdm.
See also Topic(s): Guidelines
Metadata Training
National Biological Information Infrastructure
This site contains resources for metadata trainers including materials to use during their
training sessions and to improve their training skills.
See also Topic(s): Training
Minnesota
Metadata Guidelines for Dublin Core Metadata: Training Manual
Revision date: September 2002. (PDF version)
Eileen Quam, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
This guide provides assistance in applying Dublin Core metadata elements designed to
enhance retrieval of online information resources.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core;
Training
Networked
Resources and Metadata Committee
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services ALCTS (A division of the
American Library Association)
The Networked Resources and Metadata Committee was established to help provide the
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (a division of the American
Library Association) with a coherent view of networked information and metadata issues.
See also Topic(s): Working Groups
Task Force on Metadata Final Report June 2000
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services ALCTS (A division of the
American Library Association)
This report summarizes the work done on the five major issues with which the task force
was charged. These issues include analyzing resource-description needs of libraries;
building a conceptual map of the resource-description terrain; devising a definition of
metadata and investigating interoperability with AACR2 and MARC 21; recommending ways in
which libraries may best incorporate the use of metadata schemes into current methods or
resource description and resource discover; and recommending rule revision, where required,
to enable interoperability of cataloging with metadata schemes.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Date and Time Formats
World Wide Web Consortium.
This document defines a profile of ISO 8601, the International Standard for the
representation of dates and times. ISO 8601 describes a large number of date/time
formats.
See also Topic(s): Standards
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