IMRC - Metadata by Organization

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

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

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

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

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

Approaches to Metadata Implementation at Industry Canada
This presentation reviews the role of metadata in information management, including the scope of application. It also summarizes appropriate metadata strategies and new technological approaches.
See also Topic(s): Implementation

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

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 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

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

Common Look and Feel Metadata Definitions and HTML Examples
This document provides examples of how metatagging will appear in the html coding of Government of Canada web pages, as well as definitions and usage guidelines for each of the required elements.
See also Topic(s): Common Look and Feel

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

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

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

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

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

DC Vocabulary Qualifiers
This page contains a list of vocabularies registered by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
See also Topic(s): Dublin Core

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 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

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 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

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

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

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
The IFLA site links to metadata tools, conferences, research reports and Dublin Core.
See also Topic(s): Resources; Tools

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

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

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
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

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
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
See also Topic(s): Interoperability

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

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

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

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