- Advanced Meta Data Architecture - http://www.tdan.com/i013fe01.htm
David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
- Metadata.Net Home Page - http://metadata.net/
Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
- UKOLN Metadata - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
- Metadata at W3C - http://www.w3.org/Metadata/
Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
- What is Metadata? - http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/
Alexandria Digital Library
- The MetaWeb Project - http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/metaweb/
The aim of the Metadata Tools and Services project - known as MetaWeb - is to develop indexing services, user tools, and metadata element sets in order to promote the use of, and exploitation of metadata on the Internet.
- Resource Guide to Metadata - http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/~andrei/Metadata_Science.htm
Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Site describes ontologies for science.
- EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group - http://www.ub.uib.no/avdeling/fdok/cris/taskgroups/index3.htm
Task Group maintaining and developing Common European Research Information Format Metadata and database format. First published and supported by European Commission for research and scientific data sharing and exchange.
- MetaMap - http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html
An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
- SMBmeta - http://www.smbmeta.org/
Designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses provide information to search engines and directories in an open and distributed way. Includes documentation and source code.
- Index Data - http://www.indexdata.dk/
Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
- Metadata Gateway - http://www.geocities.com/metagateway/
Introduces basic Metadata concepts, major metadata standards or schemas, the relationship between new access mechanisms for digital library and traditional cataloguing methods, systems, software and tools for metadata creation, harvest and migration.
- Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies - http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/contents.html
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 text of the standard is available in html, pdf, and downloadable as a zip file.
- Metacrap - http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
- CanCore - http://www.cancore.ca/
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.
- FASTER - http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/data/
Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
- Metadata Standards and Information Analysis - http://www.geocities.com/ronaldsnijder
Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
- Agricultural Metadata Element Set Project - http://www.fao.org/agris/agmes/
The AgMES project promotes the use of metadata in description of all document-like information objects in the domain of agriculture. It is an extension of the Dublin Core element set.
- SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution) - http://www.simplestorefront.org
A web content distribution method used by E-Commerce websites to share catalog data in a format easily interpreted by computer software. SSD is an XML 1.0 based markup language modeled after the RSS 2.0 specification.
- IWBase - http://iw.stanford.edu/iwbase.html
This is an interconnected network of distributed repositories of proof and explanation meta information.
- WebMonkey: Metadata, Mark II - http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/03/24/index0a.html
Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.
- National Curriculum Metadata Standard - http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/SupplierCentre/Metadataguides.htm
Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
- EServer TC Library: Metadata - http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Metadata
A collection of more than 65 rated, reviewed online resources in metadata cataloguing.
- Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore) - http://www.utah.edu/cpbmetadata/
Designed to provide for television, radio and Web activities a standard way of describing and using data. This allows content to be more easily retrieved and shared.
- Metadata Research Center (MRC) - http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/
The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library (SILS) Metadata Research Center has been established to advance research in the area of metadata, semantics and ontologies.
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