April 1999.
This page provides current information about metadata initiatives. It is one of a number of pages about museum information standards and related documentation issues prepared by the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC). There is also an introduction to the overall set of pages about recent initiatives.
For a general guide to metadata, see:
Metadata for the masses : Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and means by which it can be implemented. - Ariadne : the Web version, issue 5, September 1996.
Introduction to metadata : pathways to digital information / Getty Research Institute. Standards Program. - Version 2.0. - Los Angeles : Getty, 2000.
Includes updated essays by original authors Anne Gilliland-Swetland (Definining Metadata) and Tony Gill (Metadata and the World Wide Web), plus a new essay by Mary Woodley on metadata "crosswalks." - [Announcement on ARCHIVES mailing list by Jennifer Wulffson, August 2000.]
Metadata standards crosswalk / Getty Research Institute. Standards Program. - Los Angeles : Getty, 2000.
The crosswalk of metadata standards from version 1.0 (including CDWA, Object ID, the CIMI schema, MARC, and Dublin Core) has been updated. Four additional crosswalks mapping archival metadata standards (EAD, ISAD) have been added. The site also include a glossary and a list of acronyms and urls. All of the sections are available as PDF files for easy printing. - [Announcement on ARCHIVES mailing list by Jennifer Wulffson, August 2000.]
The main museum and related projects working on metadata concepts include:
April 1999.
Dublin Core Metadata includes a definition of the Dublin core elements.
RLG hosted a metadata summit in July 1997.
The online Ariadne newsletter includes frequent articles about metadata issues.
The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: a review of the literature: March 1995 - September 1997, by Harold Thiele, University of Pittsburgh, was published in the January 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine, which has mirror sites in the UK and in Australia.
Paul Miller and Tony Gill report on the 1997 Dublin Core meeting in Helsinki, in Ariadne, while another report entitled DC-5: The Helsinki metadata workshop; a report on the workshop and subsequent developments, by Stuart Weibel of OCLC and Juha Hakala of Helsinki University Library, was published in February 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine.
Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core. Edited by P Miller and D Greenstein on behalf of the AHDS and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking. This report provides a practical and accessible introduction to the importance and use of Dublin Core metadata for the purposes of describing and discovering humanities information resources online. Resulting from an extensively consultative study funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee and involving hundreds of information specialists, and humanities scholars, the work will be relevant to anyone interested in cataloguing, finding, or integrating access to distributed online information resources. The work comprises six chapters and an extensive "bibliography" providing pointers to those who require further information about metadata, the Dublin Core, cataloguing standards currently in use in the humanities, and the Z39.50 network application protocol.
In the UK, the metadata focus is provided by Brian Kelly at UKOLN.
Metadata Workshop, Luxembourg, 1-2 December 1997, organised by DGXIII/E-4, with the involvement of UKOLN (UK Office for Library & Info Networking). Full report, tutorial materials, and some other material. This meeting and workshop were for projects and other interested people involved in developing and applying metadata for the classification of content relevant to libraries, museums and archives. The specific objectives were to establish a platform for co-ordination between projects concerned with metadata in a broad sense, to raise awareness of developments in the standards arena and to stimulate feedback from the projects to the standards.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is an XML application developed to allow metadata information to be created and stored independently of the documents to which it relates, although there will also be mechanisms for embedding RDF into existing HTML Web pages. This makes it possible to create separate descriptive catalogues of Internet resources and to provide for various automated search mechanisms. The authoritative specification is:
Resource description framework (RDF) model and syntax specification : W3C recommendation, 22 February 1999 / editors Ora Lassila and Ralph R. Swick. - Cambridge, MA, etc. : World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 1999.
http://cidoc.icom.museum/stand3m.htm
Revised / Dernière mise à jour: 2002-12-20
Original author / Auteur original: Andrew
Roberts
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Leonard Will
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