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Crosswalks
Crosswalks from the Alexandria Metadata Scheme to , D2M: Dublin Core to MARC Converter, Dublin Core/FINMARC/GILS Crosswalk, Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Metadata meets, Metadata: Mapping between metadata formats.
Dublin Core
DC-1: OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities: Supporting Di, DC-2: Metadata Workshop II, DC-3: CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop, DC-4: The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report, DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop, DC-6: The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initia, DC-7: The 7th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop, DC-8: The 8th International Dublin Core Initiative, DC-9: International Conference on Dublin Core and
Encoded Archival Description
EAD at UC BERKELEY, EAD Help Pages, EAD Retrospective Conversion Guidelines, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Official Web Si, Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and , NCSU Libraries Special Collections - EAD toolkit
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee, FGDC Tools (USGS), Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
MARC
Bibliographic Formats and Standards, CAN/MARC home page, Cataloging Cheat Sheet, MARC 21 - MARC formats for the 21st century, MARC Records, Systems, and Tools, MARC Standards, MARC.pm : Machine Readable Cataloging Perl Module, MarcEdit, Medlane XMLMARC, Tag of the Month
MathML
A Gentle Introduction to MathML, A Gentle Introduction to MathML, Editing Mathematics in Amaya, EzMath, Generating MathML Markup, GtkMathView, Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 Working , Mathematical Markup Language (MathML?) 1.01 Specif, MathML - What's in it for us?
Meta-Object Facility Information
Meta-Object Facility Information, Metadata and Cataloging Solutions
NewsML
XMLNews.org
RDF
Applications, Documentation, FAQs, Help, and Tutorials, Presentations, Sample Code, Standards Documents, Technical Articles and TechNotes, Tools, Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide, Extensibility, Hyphen.info, Introduction to RSS News Feeds, PML, RDF Interest Group, RDF Logic Mailing List, RDF Resources, RDF-DEV : A Site for RDF Developers, Resource Description Framework
Text Encoding Initiative
CETH Home Page, Documenting the American South -- University of No, Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia, Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), TEI and XML in Digital Libraries: Final Report, TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding (P4), TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Draft Guidelines f, Text Encoding Initiative, The Oxford Text Archive
VRA Core Categories
Visual Resources Association
Z39.50
Server Directories, Belgian Z39.50 Implementation Group, Crossnet Systems ltd, Danish Z39.50 Implementers Group, FinZIG, Index Data, NorZIG, Texas Z39.50 Implementors Group, The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specific, VB ZOOM, Virtual Canadian Union Catalog Project
A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata f
News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.
Advanced Meta Data Architecture
David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
Agricultural Metadata Element Set Project
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.
CanCore
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.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
EServer TC Library: Metadata
A collection of more than 65 rated, reviewed online resources in metadata cataloguing.
EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group
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.
FASTER
Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
Index Data
Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
IWBase
This is an interconnected network of distributed repositories of proof and explanation meta information.
Metacrap
Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
Metadata : Why should we care?
By Kathleen Forsythe and Diana Brooking. University of Washington.
Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT)
Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
Metadata at W3C
Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Metadata Gateway
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.
Metadata projects, resources, workshops
European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
Metadata Standards and Information Analysis
Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
Metadata.Net Home Page
Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name
Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman, ONLINE.
MetaMap
An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
National Curriculum Metadata Standard
Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
Object Reference System Group
Specification group to reference images, documents and multimedia files and to build common standard XML search queries. Includes a discussion group.
Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore)
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.
Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth A
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.
Resource Guide to Metadata
Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Site describes ontologies for science.
SMBmeta
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.
SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution)
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.
Technical standards for electronic bibliographic d
Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.
The MetaWeb Project
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.
The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard
Defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine and mainstream journal content. PRISM is defined by a working group of IDEAlliance, a publishing industry association.
UKOLN Metadata
Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
University of Queensland: An Introduction to Metad
Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
WebMonkey: Metadata, Mark II
Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.
What is Metadata?
Alexandria Digital Library
XML & Metadata Developer Central
Netscape
XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us.
By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.