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General Resources
Digital Libraries: Metadata
Resources (IFLA)
http://www.ifla.org/II/
metadata.htm
A Framework of Guidance for
Building Good Digital
Collections
http://www.niso.org/framework/
forumframework.html
Introduction to Metadata:
Pathways to Digital
Information
by Martha Baca
http://www.getty.edu/research/
conducting_research/standards/
intrometadata/index.html
Metadata: Cataloging by Any
Other Name
by Jessica Milstead and Susan
Feldman
ONLINE, January 1999
http://www.onlinemag.net/
OL1999/milstead1.html
Metadata and Its Application
by Brad Eden
Library Technology Reports
(September-October 2002)
Metadata Demystified: A Guide
for Publishers
by Amy Brand, Frank Daly,
Barbara Meyers
NISO Press & The Sheridan
Press, 2003,
ISBN 1-880125-49-9
http://www.niso.org/standards/
resources/
Metadata_Demystified.pdf
Metadata Fundamentals for All
Librarians
by Priscilla Caplan
ALA , 2003, ISBN: 0-8389-0847-0
Metadata Information
Clearinghouse Interactive
(MICI)
http://www.metadata
information.org
Metadata Portals and Multistandard
Projects
by Candy Schwartz
http://web.simmons.edu/
~schwartz/meta.html
Metadata Primer – A “How To”
Guide on Metadata
Implementation [for digital spatial
data]
by David Hart and Hugh Phillips
http://www.lic.wisc.edu/metadata/
metaprim.htm
Metadata Principles and
Practicalities
Duval, Erik, Wayne Hodgins,
Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L.
Weibel
D-Lib Magazine 8(4) (April 2002)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/
weibel/04weibel.html
Metadata Resources (UKOLN)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
resources
Metadata Standards
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/
Standards/metadata_intro.html
Metadata Standards,
Crosswalks, and Standards
Organizations
http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/
toolbox/standards.htm
Metadata.net – Projects, Tools &
Services, and Schema Registry
( Australia )
http://metadata.net/
Preservation Metadata for
Digital Objects: A Review of the
State of the Art
A White Paper by the OCLC/RLG
Working Group on Preservation
Metadata, January 31, 2001
www.oclc.org/research/projects/
pmwg/presmeta_wp.pdf
Schemes, Initiatives,
and Related Sites
Application profiles: mixing and
matching metadata schemas
Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel,
Ariadne, Issue 25, September
2000.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/
app-profiles/intro.html
The Cedars Project (CURL
exemplars in digital archives)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
metadata.html
CDWA (Categories for the
Description of Works of Art)
http://www.getty.edu/research/
conducting_research/standards/
cdwa/
DDI (Data Documentation
Initiative)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
http://www.doi.org/
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI)
http://dublincore.org
EAD (Encoded Archival
Description)
http://www.loc.gov/ead/
Environmental Data Registry
(EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/edr/
FGDC Content Standard for
Digital Geospatial Metadata
(CSDGM)
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/
Gateway to Educational
Materials (GEM)
http://www.geminfo.org/
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IFLA Functional Requirements
for Bibliographic Records
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/
frbr.htm
IMS Global Learning
Consortium
http://www.imsglobal.org
<indecs> interoperability of
data in ecommerce systems
http://www.indecs.org/
LOM (Learning Object
Metadata)
http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/
MARC 21 (Machine-Readable
Cataloging)
http://www.loc.gov/marc
MetaWeb Project
http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/
Projects/metaweb/
METS (Metadata Encoding and
Transmission Standard)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/
mets/
MIX (Metadata for Images in
XML Schema)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/
MODS (Metadata Object
Description Schema)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/
mods/
MPEG (Moving Picture Experts
Group)
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/
NBII (National Biological
Information Infrastructure)
http://www.nbii.gov/
Nordic Metadata Projects
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/meta/
NSDI (National Spatial Data
Infrastructure)
http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/
OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
http://www.openarchives.org/
OAIS (Open Archival
Information System)
http://www.ccsds.org/documents/
650x0b1.pdf
ONIX (Online Information
Exchange)
http://www.editeur.org/onix.html
Open GIS Consortium
http://www.opengis.org/
PADI (Preserving Access to
Digital Information)
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/
32.html
PREMIS (PREservation
Metadata: Implementation
Strategies)
http://www.oclc.org/research/
projects/pmwg
PURL (Persistent Uniform
Resource Locator)
http://purl.org
RDF (Resource Description
Framework)
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
SCHEMAS: Forum for Metadata
Schema Implementors
(UKOLN)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
schemas/
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
http://www.tei-c.org/
VRA (Visual Resources
Association) Core Categories
http://www.vraweb.org/
vracore3.htm
XML (Extensible Markup
Language)
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Z39.50
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
ZING (Z39.50 Next Generation)
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
zing/zing-home.html
Crosswalks and Lists of
Crosswalks
All about Crosswalks
http://www.oclc.org/research/
projects/mswitch/
1_crosswalks.htm
Dublin Core / MARC / GILS
Crosswalk
http://www.loc.gov/marc/
dccross.html
FGDC to MARC
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
public-documents/metadata/
fgdc2marc.html
Issues in Crosswalking Content
Metadata Standards
by Margaret St. Pierre and William
P. LaPlant, Jr.
http://www.niso.org/press/
whitepapers/crsswalk.html
MARC 21 to Dublin Core
http://www.loc.gov/marc/
marc2dc.html
Metadata: Mapping between
Metadata Formats (UKOLN)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
interoperability/
Metadata Mappings
(Crosswalks)
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/
subjects/metadata/mappings.html
Metadata Standards Crosswalk
(Getty)
http://www.getty.edu/research/
conducting_research/standards/
intrometadata/3_crosswalks/
crosswalk1.html
Metadata Standards Crosswalks
(Canadian Heritage Information
Network)
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/
Standards/
metadata_crosswalks.html
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Metadata Registries &
Clearinghouses
DCMI Registry Working Group
http://dublincore.org/groups/
registry/
DESIRE Metadata Registry
http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/
Environmental Data Registry
http://www.epa.gov/edr/
FGDC Clearinghouse Registry
http://registry.gsdi.org/
MICI (Metadata Information
Clearinghouse Interactive)
http://
www.metadatainformation.org/
AACR2 (Anglo-American
Cataloging Rules) – A standard set
of rules for cataloging library
materials. The “ 2” refers to the
second edition.
administrative metadata –
metadata related to the use,
management, and encoding
processes of digital objects over a
period of time. Includes the subsets
of technical metadata, rights
management metadata, and
preservation metadata.
ANSI (American National
Standards Institute) – administers
and coordinates the U.S. voluntary
standardization and conformity
assessment system.
CDWA (Categories for the
Descriptions of Works of Art) – a
metadata element set for describing
artworks.
crosswalk – a mapping of the
elements, semantics, and syntax
from one metadata scheme to
another.
CSDGM (Content Standard for
Digital Geospatial Metadata) – a
metadata standard developed by
the FGDC. Officially known as
FGDC-STD-001.
dataset – a collection of computerreadable
data records.
DC ( Dublin Core) – a general
metadata element set for describing
all types of resources.
DDI (Data Documentation
Initiative) - a specification for
describing social science datasets.
descriptive metadata – metadata
that describes a work for purposes
of discovery and identification, such
as creator, title, and subject.
DLF (Digital Library Federation)
– a membership organization
dedicated to making digital
information widely accessible.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) – a
unique identifier assigned to
electronic objects of intellectual
property which can be resolved to
the object’s location on the Internet.
DTD (Document Type Definition)
– a formal description in SGML or
XML syntax of the structure
(elements, attributes, and entities)
to be used for describing the
specified document type.
EAD (Encoded Archival
Description) – a metadata scheme
for collection finding aids.
element set – information
segments of the metadata record,
often called semantics or content.
encoding rules – the syntax or
prescribed order for the elements
contained in the metadata
description.