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.
Electronic Scriptorium Ltd - Specializes in metadata and high value data conversion. It contracts work out to monks and nuns throughout the United States.
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.
Metacrap - Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
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 Research Center (MRC) - The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library (SILS) Metadata Research Center has been established to advance research in the area of metadata, semantics and ontologies.
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).
MetaMap - An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
ML Metadata - Provides an introduction and internet resources on metadata for the small library.
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.
The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Specification - 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.
Resource Guide to Metadata - Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Describes ontologies for science.
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.
Visual Resources Association - Non-profit organization for advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. Features newsletter, conferences, contacts and membership details.
Advanced Meta Data Architecture - David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
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