深入理解元素据—词汇表2

 

深入理解元素据—词汇表2

NBII Metadata Clearinghouse

http://metadata.nbii.gov/

The SCHEMAS Registry

http://www.schemas-forum.org/

registry/

Tools for Metadata

Creation

DDI Tools

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/

users/tools.html#a01

Dublin Core tools

http://dublincore.org/tools/

FGDC Metadata Tools

http://www.nbii.gov/datainfo/

metadata/tools/

Metadata Software Tools

http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/metadata/

software-tools/

OAI-Specific Tools

http://www.openarchives.org/tools/

tools.html

RDF Editors and Tools

http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

discovery/rdf/resources/#sec-tools

TEI Software

http://www.tei-c.org/Software/

index.html

extension – an element that is not

officially part of a metadata scheme,

which is defined for use with that

scheme for a particular application.

FGDC (Federal Geographic Data

Committee) – a U.S. Federal

government interagency committee

responsible for developing the

National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

GEM (Gateway to Educational

Materials) – a U.S. Department of

Education initiative that has defined

an extension to the Dublin Core

element set to accommodate

educational resources.

GIS (Geographic Information

System) – a computer system for

capturing, managing, and

displaying data related to positions

on the Earth’s surface.

HTML (Hypertext Mark-up

Language) – a set of tags and rules

derived from SGML used to create

hypertext documents for the World

Wide Web. Officially, a W3C

Recommendation.

<indecs> (Interoperability of Data

in ECommerce Systems) – a

framework for metadata to support

commerce in intellectual property.

interoperability – the ability of

multiple systems, using different

hardware and software platforms,

data structures, and interfaces, to

exchange and share data.

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ISO (International Organization

for Standardization) – the primary

international standards development

organization.

IEC (International Electrotechnical

Commission) – an

international standards development

organization for all electrical,

electronic and related technologies.

Co-sponsors with ISO the Joint

Technical Committee 1 on Information

Technology.

LOM (Learning Object Metadata)

– a metadata scheme for

technology-supported learning

resources.

MARC 21 (MAchine Readable

Cataloging) -- a formatting, record

structure, and encoding standard

for electronic bibliographic

cataloging records developed by

the Library of Congress. The “21”

refers to the version of MARC

issued in 1998 that integrated the

U.S. and Canadian versions of

MARC.

MARCXML – a metadata scheme

for working with MARC data in a

XML environment

metadata – structured information

that describes, explains, locates,

and otherwise makes it easier to

retrieve and use an information

resource.

metadata harvesting – a technique

for extracting metadata from

individual repositories and

collecting it in a central catalog

METS (Metadata Encoding and

Transmission Standard) – a

metadata scheme for complex

digital library objects.

MODS (Metadata Object

Description Schema) – a

metadata scheme for rich

description of electronic resources.

MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts

Group) – Standards Committee 29,

Working Group 11 of ISO/IEC JTC1,

which develops standards for digital

audio and video. Also refers to a

suite of standards developed by the

group.

namespace – in RDF, a way to tie

a specific use of a metadata

element to the scheme where the

intended definition is to be found.

NISO (National Information

Standards Organization) – a

standards development organization,

accredited by the American

National Standards Institute, that

develops library and informationrelated

standards.

ONIX (Online Information

Exchange) – a metadata scheme

for book bibliographic, trade, and

promotional data.

preservation metadata – a form of

administrative metadata dealing

with the provenance of a resource

and its archival management.

profile – a subset of a scheme

defined and used by a particular

interest group to customize the

scheme for its purposes.

PURL (Persistent URL) – a naming

and resolution system developed by

OCLC utilizing an intermediate

redirection service to locate a

resource’s URL.

qualifier – an optional sub-element

to a Dublin Core element that is

used to further refine the element

or support a specific encoding

scheme.

RDF (Resource Description

Framework) – a language for

representing metadata about Web

resources so it can be exchanged

between applications without loss

of meaning. Officially, a suite of

W3C specifications.

registry – a formal system for the

documentation of the element sets,

descriptions, semantics, and syntax

of one or more metadata schemes.

rights management metadata – a

form of administrative metadata

dealing with the intellectual property

rights of a resource.

scheme (schema) – a metadata

element set and rules for using it.

semantics – the names and

meanings of metadata elements.

SGML (Standard Generalized

Markup Language) – a language

used to mark-up electronic

documents with tags that define the

relationship between the content

and the structure. Officially,

international standard ISO 8879,

Information processing—Text and

office systems—Standard Generalized

Markup Language (SGML) .

structural metadata – metadata

that indicates how compound

objects are structured, provided to

support use of the objects.

syntax – rules for how metadata

elements and their content are

encoded.

technical metadata – a form of

administrative metadata dealing

with the creation or storage

encoding processes or formats of

the resource.

TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) – a

metadata scheme for electronic text

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

– A unique address for identifying

and locating a resource on the

Internet.

VRA (Visual Resources

Association ) Core – a metadata

scheme for describing a visual work

and its representations

W3C (World Wide Web

Consortium) – an international

consortium that develops

consensus protocols and

specifications to ensure the

interoperability of the World Wide

Web.

XML (Extensible Mark-up

Language) – an application profile

of SGML designed for use in Web

applications. Officially, a W3C

Recommendation.

Z39.50 – a NISO and ISO standard

protocol for cross-system search

and retrieval. Officially, international

standard, ISO 23950, Information

Retrieval (Z39.50): Application

Service Definition and Protocol

Specification , and ANSI/NISO

standard Z39.50

.