SGML/XML and Metadata Initiatives

This document contains some miscellaneous "Metadata" links. Most recently edited links are at the end of the document. See also the section on "SGML and Metadata" in the main hierarchy of the SGML Web Page.

• The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Home Page [http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core]
• A Syntax for Dublin Core Metadata. Recommendations from the Second Metadata Workshop, Warwick [http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/DC/syntax/warwick.html
• An application of Dublin Core from the Archaeology Data Service [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~napm1/ads/metadata]
• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report, S. Weibel, J. Godby, E. Miller. & R. Daniel, Dublin, Ohio, USA, 1995 [http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/publications/weibel/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
• A Syntax for Dublin Core Metadata, L. Burnard, E. Miller, L. Quin & C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, April 1996 [http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/metadata.syntax.html]
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: Reference Description [http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements]
• Application of Metadata Standards, by Judith Newton
• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/dlib/july96/07contents.html"
• http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/DTD/dc1.dtd
• http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel/
• http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~napm1/
• http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/publications/metadata/minimal.html
• http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/publications/metadata/issues.html
• http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/07contents.html
• http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~napm1/ads/metadata
• ROADS: http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/roads/
• The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Aggregating Sets of Metadata
• Ditto (July 12, 1996)
• DESIRE: http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/
• Dublin Core Sub-Elements, by John Knight and Martin Hamilton
• Dublin Core Standard ObjectTypes (superset of the BibTeX genre types)
• IDML: http://www.identify.com/welcome/idml-faq.html
• A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML, by Stuart Weibel
• CNI/OCLC Metadata Workshop: Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images and Imagebases (Conf date: September 24-25, 1996)
• "Metadata for the Masses" (Dublin Core paper, published in Ariadne 5), by Paul Miller
• "Guide to Creating Core Descriptive Metadata"[18 September 1996 DRAFT 3]
• Documents/Publications - Cataloging, Multilevel Description by Mary Larsgaard (October 29, 1996)
• Description of the Nordic Metadata project: Cataloguing, Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Documents
• Uniform Resource Characteristics: Metadata for the Masses
• Proposed Encodings for Dublin Core Metadata, by Dave Beckett, DRAFT V0.3, 9th September 1996
• Scheme Definition: DMV MetaData for Mathematical Papers, Version 1.2 [The SCHEMA.MathDMV defines MetaData Tags for Mathematical Papers]
• An application of Dublin Core from the Archaeology Data Service, by Paul Miller
• Pan-Browser Support for Annotations and Other Meta-Information on the World Wide Web, by Matthew A. Schickler, Murray S. Mazer, and Charles Brooks
• Dublin Core Element Set Crosswalk between EAD, GILS, USMARC records [added November 20, 1996]
• The Second IEEE Metadata Conference. September 16 & 17, 1997. Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
• DC-4: The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series. Conference March 3 - 5, 1997. Venue: National Library of Australia, Canberra
• Meta Content Format [Apple Proposal]
• Dublin Core Qualifiers [January 07, 1997]
• Dublin Core Metadata Elements (December 1996); see also: The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Home Page
• Dublin Core to MARC mapping: "Dublin Core/MARC Crosswalk", from Rebecca Guenther of The Network Development and MARC Standards Office (January 20, 1997)
• Will Dublin Form the Apple Core?, by Jon Knight ["how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows"]
• MIME Implementation for the Warwick Framework (January 29, 1997)
• A script to build META tags using the Dublin Core types
• Dublin Core Element Substructure, (Why The Dublin Core needs Qualifiers), by Dave Beckett
• EDNA
• PICS-SE, A Proposed Standard for the Annotation of Internet Documents using a String Extension to PICS "The main advantage of PICS-SE in comparison to the Warwick Framework is that - while on the same level of abstraction - PICS-SE is ready-to-use: it provides a concrete syntax as well as a mechanism to transport meta information. In addition, PICS-SE has been considerably influenced by the object-oriented methodology. This means that we have developed a notion of classes and objects fine-tuned for knowledge modelling."
• Mailing List: HTML-Metadata via Hypermail [http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/lists/html-metadata/]
• "Making a MARC with Dublin Core", by Jon Knight. Published in Ariadne 8, March 1997
• Metadata registry service
• Conferences about metadata registries
• Joint Workshop on Metadata Registries -- Home Page
• EPA Scientific Metadata Standards Project Web Page
• The Second IEEE Metadata Conference (September 16 & 17, 1997)
• HTTP-EQUIV (HTTP header) Index, Meta tags
• MDSE indexing (Dr. Renato Iannella)
• "Down Under with the Dublin Core" [report on the Australian Metadata Conference]. An article in Ariadne, written by by Paul Miller and Tony Gill)
• Dublin Core Metadata Template
• Dublin Core Qualifiers/Substructure : a proposal, by Rebecca Guenther (15 April 1997); [mirror copy]
• Using PICS-SE with Dublin Core Metadata
• VW96 schema
• NewsAgent - Notes on use of Dublin Core by NewsAgent
• Background on metadata and EdNA
• HTTP and HTML Metadata Linking Mechanism, by A.Daviel [INTERNET-DRAFT: draft-daviel-metadata-link-00.txt]
• Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English, by Thomas Baker
• REACH
• REACH Element Set and DC qualifiers [effective June 9, 1997]
• Metadata standards directories, from Bruno Kestemont [June 04, 1997]
• A draft of the Workshop report
• AHDS Report - Archaeology
• Metadata for Electronic Texts Workshop Report. A (provisional) report of the results of the metadata workshop organized by the Oxford Text Archive in Oxford, 2nd May 1997. [mirror copy]
• "The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report", by Stuart Weibel, Renato Iannella, and Warwick Cathro. In D-Lib Magazine, June 1997. [mirror copy]
• MetaData '97 Program- The Second IEEE Metadata Conference. September 16 & 17, 1997
• Beyond the Dublin Core: Rich Meta-Data and Convenience-of-Use Are Compatible After All [critical analysis of DC]
• Mapping between metadata formats by Michael Day. From Dublin Core to USMARC, From Dublin Core to IAFA/ROADS templates, From IAFA/ROADS templates to USMARC, From IAFA/ROADS templates to Z39.50 Bib-1, From SOIF to IAFA/ROADS templates, From Dublin Core to EAD/GILS/USMARC, From GILS Core Element to USMARC, and others. (July 4, 1997)
• Dublin Core Resource Types, a hierarchical system (Berkeley, DRAFT: July 10, 1997)
• The Nordic Metadata Project - Home Page
• [July 16, 1997] "Dublin Core Management", by Andy Powell ["presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web-site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages"], in Ariadne 10, July 15th, 1997. [archive copy]
• Dublin Core RESOURCE TYPEs, from Andrew Daviel (summary)
• "Mapping of Dublin Core Elements to Z39.50 Bib-1 Search Attributes", - a proposal by Ray Denenberg and Rebecca Guenther; [archive copy]
• STARTS reference implementation
• STARTS project (Stanford Protocol for Internet Search and Retrieval)
• Nordic Index
• Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
• [August 1997] DSTC as participant in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Working Group
• Application of RDF for Extensible Dublin Core Metadata;
• Application of RDF for Extensible Dublin Core Metadata - Andrew Layman's comments on July 30, 1997 draft version;
• The Metadata Repository Service [RDU resource]
• RDF (Resource Description Framework) - Main database entry
• Description of the form and content of resources: Metadata - Telematics for Research project DESIRE [updated at least: 1997-06-19]
• CALL FOR PAPERS. "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" JASIS special issue, edited by Zorana Ercegovac (zercegov@ucla.edu)
• Dublin Core Workshop 5, 6.-8.10.1997, Helsinki, FINLAND
• Dublin Core Resource Types. Structuralist DRAFT: July 24, 1997
• Dublin Core Resource Types. Minimalist DRAFT: July 17, 1997
• Proceedings of the Second IEEE Metadata Conference. (September 16-17, 1997.)
• Dublin Core Bibliography
• Dublin Core Issues and Working Papers
• Projects Using Dublin Core
• Dublin Core Workshop Series
• "Syntactic Considerations for the Dublin Core"
• DUBLIN CORE ELEMENT: COVERAGE "spatial and temporal characteristics of the object or resource" [October 01, 1997]
• Medical Core Metadata Project
• Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Discovery. Internet Draft. 27 August 1997.
• Implementations of DC
• DC - Use in Environment Australia
• dc-datamodel - discussion list for a suitable Data Model for Dublin Core metadata
• Relationships Registry
• Helsinki DC5 Workshop Report
• IFLA relation terms (bibliographic relationships)
• Metadata Conversion and the Library OPAC
• "Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core", Edited by Paul Miller and Daniel Greenstein on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Data Service
• Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS Version 1.1)
• "Extending the Warwick Framework From Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects.", by Ron Daniel, Jr. D-Lib Magazine, November 1997.
• "Metadata Corner: DC5: The search for Santa." Paul Miller and Tony Gill report on the latest Dublin Core metadata workshop, held in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Ariadne 12 (November 1997)
• Metadata Workshop, Luxembourg - 1-2 December 1997
• ADAM Quick Guide to Metadata
• MARC field 856 (metadata relator field - "in the USMARC Bibliographic, Holdings, Classification, and Community Information formats is used for Electronic Location and Access information to an electronic resource and contains information needed to locate and access the resource. The field may be used in a bibliographic record for a resource when that resource or a subset of it is available electronically. In addition, it may be used to locate and access an electronic version of a non-electronic resource described in the bibliographic record or a related electronic resource)
• Three SGML metadata formats: TEI, EAD, and CIMI. A Study for BIBLINK Work Package 1.1 By Lou Burnard and Richard Light. December 1996. Work Package 1 of Telematics for Libraries project BIBLINK (LB 4034).
• [December 07, 1997] WG4 has requested the approval of a workshop "on guidelines for accessing data and metadata represented in SGML from databases, knowledge bases, and search tools, [to be] organized by WG4 in conjunction with their meeting in Paris in May 1998. The framework for the workshop is explained in the document N1946: "Information Processing -- Guidelines for accessing data and metadata represented in SGML from databases, knowledge bases and search tools." For background information on the decision, see "Recommendations of the Alexandria Meeting" of WG4 (5 December 1997).
• Dublin Core Working Groups
• "A report from Dublin Core metadata workshops 4 & 5", by Juha Hakala - The article will be published at "Nordinfo Nytt."
• The 5th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop. Helsinki, Finland, October 6-8, 1997 PROJECT PRESENTATIONS, by Juha Hakala
• [December 10, 1997] "Metadata. What It Is and Why We Need It on the Web." By Tim Bray. In The Gilbane Report on Open Information & Document Systems Volume 5, Number 5 (September/October 1997) 1-24. A major article surveying the important topic of "metadata" in the context of networked delivery of information. As one would expect from Tim Bray: the XML and SGML connections (including RDF) are developed. [bibliography entry pending; see the abstract in the link above.]
• [January 21, 1998] "The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: A Review of the Literature, March 1995 - September 1997." By Harold Thiele, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh. [local archive copy]
• Conformance concerns: "Software Which Causes Problems With Dublin Core Metadata"- by Brian Kelly
• Managing Metadata For The Digital Library: Crosswalks Or Chaos? - Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, D.C., May 4-5, 1998.
• [February 11, 1998] Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Discovery. Internet-Draft. draft-kunze-dc-02.txt. 10 February 1998.
• Provisional report of the Dublin Core Subelement Working Group - 11 February 1998
• GEM Metadata Element Set Index - Gateway to Educational Materials
• Examples of DC in RDF
• EC Metadata Workshop Luxembourg - 1-2 December 1997 (Report)
• DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop by Stuart Weibel and Juha Hakala, in D-Lib Magazine, February 1998. [local archive copy]
• [March 09, 1998] CIMI Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Project Description
• IMS project incorporates Dublin Core into its metadata dictionary "to be used in a Tiered Respository System (TIERS). . .expect to use XML-RDF once it is finalized. . ."
• Educom's IMS Project "Metadata" Specification
• Reggie - The Metadata Editor
• Metadata Schema Registry
• A USER GUIDE FOR SIMPLE DUBLIN CORE (Discussion version 980410)
• "Workshop on Guidelines for accessing data and metadata represented in SGML from databases, knowledge bases and search tools." Hosted by ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4, Friday, 22 May 1998, Azurite Room, 0900 -1700 h. After SGML/XML Europe '98.
• META-BIB mailing list
• META-LIB Home Page
• Educational Metadata Recommendation Summary - ARIADNE Project. Version 2.0, April 1998.
• User Guide for Simple Dublin Core, Draft Version 4.
• User Guide for Simple Dublin Core, Draft Version 4.
• Dublin Core Data Model Discussion Paper (v. 0), or try: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/djb1/research/metadata/rdf.shtml; [local archive copy]
• Admin Core - Administrative Metadata
• Format (DC.Format) - Type and Format WG
• Resource Type (DC.Type) - Type and Format WG
• DC-dot - a Dublin Core generator - DC-dot - a Dublin Core generator. This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core HTML <META> tags suitable for embedding in the <HEAD>...</HEAD> section of the page. The generated tags can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS or RDF) if necessary. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing."
• Eliot Christian (US Geological Survey) posted an announcement for an ISO/IEC Metadata Working Group.
• Nordic metadata projec - Final Report
• Nordic metadata II
• Resource Type - (Position Paper, Revised)
• Qualified Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Discovery. 10 July 1998. [local archive copy]
• Dublin Core Data Model Working Group - References. Provided by Misha Wolf (980818).
• [August 21, 1998] Directory Of Netherlands Online Resources (DONOR). "DONOR will implement the following set of standards, methods, procedures and techniques: 1) A standard metadata set and a metadata generator to create descriptions of web documents; 2) Methods and techniques for the structuring of web documents; 2) Methods and techniques for version management of web documents; 4) A procedure for the unique identification of web documents; 5) A URN-to-URL-resolution service for the management of locations of web documents; 6) Filtering techniques for Web information." See: http://www.konbib.nl/donor/index-en.html
• Report of the Metadata Workshop held in Luxembourg, 26 June 1998.
• [September 03, 1998] DC.Type position paper
• [September 03, 1998] An announcement posted to the IETF list and the RFC-DIST list publicizes the release of a new RFC on the Dublin Core. "Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery" has been published by the Network Working Group as an [informational] RFC, 'Request for Comments: 2413'. The authors are Stuart L. Weibel (OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.), John A. Kunze (Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco), Carl Lagoze (University Library and Department of Computer Science, Cornell University), and Misha Wolf (Reuters Limited). This is the first in a series of planned Informational RFCs on Dublin Core. Abstract: "The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series began in 1995 with an invitational workshop which brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content experts, and text-markup experts to promote better discovery standards for electronic resources. The Dublin Core is a 15-element set of descriptors that has emerged from this effort in interdisciplinary and international consensus building. This is the first of a set of Informational RFCs describing the Dublin Core. Its purpose is to introduce the Dublin Core and to describe the consensus reached on the semantics of each of the 15 elements." Additional information about the Dublin Core is available from the OCLC Web site "Dublin Core Metadata." [local archive copy]
• ADAM Quick Guide to Metadata
• Visual Arts, Museums & Cultural Heritage Metadata Workshop Report
• "Metadata: Standards for Retrieving WWW Documents (and Other Digitized and Non-Digitized Resources)." Diann Rusch-Feja. Presented at LISA III - Library and Information Services in Astronomy III.
• Dublin Core Website
• Metadata Matters - A One-day Seminar. Wednesday 10 March 1999. 9.30 a.m. for 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies.
• Website for the Open Forum on Metadata Registries, [local archive copy]
• Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources, from IFLA
• "Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW DC.Subject."