DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Metadata Resources

IN THIS DOCUMENT:

General Indices
Dublin Core
Geospatial Metadata
GILS
Images and Objects
IAFA / Whois++
MARC
MCF
PICS
SHOE
SOIF
X3L8
Z39.50: Collections Profile and Bib-1 Attributes
SGML/XML/HTML Metadata
EAD
HTML META
RDF
TEI
Collection Level Description

Object Identifiers
General Resources
DOI
Handles
PII
PURL
SICI
URI
URIs/URLs
URNs
URCs

Conferences and Workshops
Selected Background Documents
Metadata Tools

Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources

Library and Information Science: Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

Library and Information Science: Organizations and Companies

Internet and Networking: Selected Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments (RFCs)

SUGGESTIONS TO:
sophie.felfoldi@ifla.org

CONTRIBUTORS:

Terry Kuny
Jan Stohner
Stephen Spencer
Nancy Brodie
Fay Turner
Roy Tennant
Nathalie Ebacher

GENERAL RESOURCES AND INDICES

Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources. Many different metadata formats exist, some quite simple in their description, others quite complex and rich.

AAP Metadata Standards for Ebooks.: URL: http://www.publishers.org/home/press/ebookpr.htm
Australia. The MetaWeb Project.: URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/metaweb/
Australia. National Library of Australia. Meta Matters.: URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/meta/
Ahronheim, Judy. Judy and Magda's List of Metadata Initiatives.: URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaheim/alcts/bibacces.htm
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). ALCTS Taskforce on Meta Access.: URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Task Force on Metadata. Summary Report, June 1999.: URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/tf-meta3.html
Association of American Publishers (AAP). MICI - "Metadata Information Clearinghouse (Interactive).: URL: http://domino.wileynpt.com/NPT_Pilot/Metadata/mici.nsf
Book Industry Communications (BIC). Electronic Rights Trading.: Has numerous documents and reports pertaining to rights metadata, identifiers and metadata issues.; URL: http://www.bic.org.uk/rights.html
Colorado Digitization Project. digital toolbox: metadata.: URL: http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/access.html
Digital Library Colaboratory Working Groups. Metadata Working Group.: URL: http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/EU_Grant/metadata/meta.htm
Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DTSC). Resource Discovery Unit (RDU).: URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/
EDUCOM. Instructional Management Systems Project (IMS). IMS Metadata.: URL: http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/index.html
E-Learning Takes Important Step Forward.: Metadata Standards Leaders IEEE LTSC-LOM, and DCMI Begin Designing Future Metadata Architecture for Web-based Learning, Education and Training.; URL: http://dublincore.org/news/pr-20001206.shtml
EUN. European Schoolnet. Metadata course.: General introduction to Metadata, its use, sense, explaining also a Metadata tool, producing MD, but also a MD viewer.; URL: http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/training/sub_area_frame.cfm?sa=134
IEEE. The Metadata and Data Management Information Page.: URL: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/metadata.html
IEEE. Learning Technology Standards Committee.: URL: http://www.manta.ieee.org/p1484/
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4: Document Description and Processing Languages.: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2 is a WG on metadata although a URL for documents is not available at this time.; URL: http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg4/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Intelligent Archive: Annotating & Organizing Information.: URL: http://www.llnl.gov/ia/
Meta Data Coalition. Meta Data Coalition: "The Meta Data Coalition regroups vendors and users allied with a common purpose of driving forward the definition, implementation and ongoing evolution of a meta data interchange format and its support mechanisms."; URL: http://www.mdcinfo.com/
The Canadian Federal Government. Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC) / Centre des ressources de la gestion de l'information (CRGI): "The purpose of the IMRC is to assist federal departments and agencies as they look to optimize information management in their quest to improve service to Canadians. The metadata page includes the most current Canadian Government Guidance on metadata. IFLA's Metadata Resources page is among the International links included within the IMRC metadata section."; URL: http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/im-gi/meta/meta_e.asp/
in French URL: http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/im-gi/meta/meta_f.asp
U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). Metadata.: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). Metadata: Mapping between metadata formats.: Michael Day. UKOLN, University of Bath.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI).: UDDI specifies interfaces for distributed web-based information registries of Web Services. The UDDI initiative also supplies publicly accessible implementations of the specification. The set of UDDI Registers form a distributed database where businesses may register information about themselves and the "Web Services" they offer. Web Services are standardized descriptions of the accessible elements in services offered on the Web.; URL: http://www.uddi.org/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Scientific Metadata Standards Project.: URL: http://pueblo.lbl.gov/~olken/epa.html
W3 Consortium. (organization) Metadata and Resource Description.: URL: http://www.w3.org/Metadata/

DUBLIN CORE METADATA INITIATIVE

DC-8

DC-8 Dublin Core Metadata Workshop: URL: http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/index.htm

DC-7

DC-7 Dublin Core Metadata Workshop: URL: http://www.ddb.de/partner/dc7conference/index.htm

DC-6

DC-6 Dublin Core Metadata Workshop: URL: http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc6/

DC-5

DC-5 Dublin Core Metadata Workshop: URL: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/DC5.html
Weibel, Stuart and Hakela, Juha. DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop: A Report on the Workshop and Subsequent Developments: Official report of the Helsinki DC Meeting. D-Lib Magazine, February 1998.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/02weibel.html
Miller, Paul and Tony Gill. DC5: The Search for Santa.: Report of the Fifth Dublin Core workshop, held in October 1997 at the National Library of Finland. Ariadne, Issue 12, November 1997.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue12/metadata/

DC-4

DC-4: NLA/DSTC/OCLC Dublin Core Down Under / The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop.: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia. March 3 - 5, 1997.; URL: http://archive.dstc.edu.au/DC4/
Weibel, Stu, et. al. The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report.: D-Lib Magazine, June 1997.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june97/metadata/06weibel.html
Heery, R., et. al. The 4th Dublin Core Workshop: Notes from UK participants.: March, 1997.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc4-notes.html
Miller, P. and Gill, T. Down Under with the Dublin Core.: Ariadne. April, 1997.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue8/canberra-metadata/

DC-3

CNI/OCLC Metadata Workshop: Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images.: September 24-25, 1996.; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/imagemeta/
Weibel, Stuart and Eric Miller. "Image Description on the Internet: A Summary of the CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop.": D-Lib Magazine, January 1997.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/oclc/01weibel.html

DC-2

Dempsey, Lorcan and Weibel, Stuart L. The Warwick Metadata Workshop: A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description.: D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1996.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/07weibel.html
Burnard, L., et. al. A Syntax for Dublin Core Metadata: Recommendations from the Second Metadata Workshop.: April 1996.; URL: http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/metadata.syntax.html; URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/wip/metadata.syntax.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/dublin2.htm
Daniel, Ron and Lagoze, Carl. Extending the Warwick Framework: From Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects.: D-Lib Magazine, November, 1997.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november97/daniel/11daniel.html
Hakala, Juha H., et. al. Warwick framework and Dublin core set provide a comprehensive infrastructure for network resource description.: Report from the Metadata Workshop II, Warwick, UK, April 1-3, 1996.; URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/tk/warwick.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/warwick.htm
Thiele, Harold. The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework.: D-Lib Magazine, January 1998.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01thiele.html

DC-1

OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report.: URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/oclcmeta.htm
OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop: The Essential Elements of Network Object Description.: March 1-3, 1995.; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/

DC Background Documents and Links

Dublin Core Mailing List Archive.: URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-general/
Weibel, S., et. al. Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery.: RFC 2413. September 1998; URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2413.txt; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc2413.txt
Dublin Core Metadata.: URL: http://purl.org/DC/
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: Reference Description.: PURL: http://purl.org/DC/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm
Dublin Core Qualifiers.: URL: http://purl.oclc.org/dc/documents/rec/dcmes-qualifiers-20000711.htm
Guide to best practice: Dublin Core.: From the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI). 21 April 2000, Version 1.1.; URL: http://www.cimi.org/documents/meta_bestprac_v1_1_210400.doc
Hillmann, Diane. Using Dublin Core.: URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/16/usageguide/
Hillmann, Diane, and Guy Teasdale. Guide d'utilisation du Dublin Core.: URL: http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/DublinCore/usageguide-20000716fr.htm

National Archives of Australia. Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata standard.: URL: http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html
Baker, Thomas. Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English.: URL: http://dublincore.org/groups/languages/mr-19970303.shtml
Baker, Thomas. Languages for Dublin Core.: D-Lib Magazine, December, 1998.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12baker.html
Bearman, D. et.al. A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata. Progress report on reconciling metadata requirements from the Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities.: D-Lib Magazine, 5(1) January 1999.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html
Beckett, Dave. Metadata Research.: URL: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/people/cmdjb/research/metadata/
Cathro, W. Metadata: An Overview.: A paper given at the Standards Australia Seminar, August 1997.; URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/cathro3.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/cathro.pdf
Cromwell-Kessler, Willy. Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape.: D-Lib Magazine, December 1997.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html
Gill, Tony, Grout, Catherine and Smith, Louise. Visual Arts, Museums and Cultural Heritage Information Standards: a domain specific review of relevant standards for networked information discovery.: URL: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/standards.html
Grout, Catherine and Tony Gill. Visual Arts, Museums & Cultural Heritage Metadata Workshop Report.: The final report from the Visual Arts Data Service Metadata Workshop.; URL: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html
Guenther, Rebecca. Dublin Core Qualifiers/Substructure : a proposal.: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dcqualif.html
Hakala, Juha. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and it's applications.: URL: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/present.html
Hakala, Juha, et. al. The Nordic metadata project. Final Report.: URL: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm
Ianella, Renato. Admin Core.: Internet Draft only. The location of this will change with future version and when the document becomes an IETF RFC.; URL: http://metadata.net/admin/draft-iannella-admin-01.txt
Knight, Jon and Martin Hamilton. Dublin Core Standard Resource Types.: URL: http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-ObjectTypes.html
Knight, Jon and Martin Hamilton. Dublin Core Qualifiers.: URL: http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-SubElements.html
Kunze, John. Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML.: RFC2731.; URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
Lagoze, Carl. The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Diverse Sets of Metadata.: D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1996.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/lagoze/07lagoze.html
Lagoze, Carl, Lynch, Clifford A., and Daniel, Ron Jr. The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Aggregating Sets of Metadata.: TR96-1593, June 21, 1996.; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/tr961593.pdf
Lasher, R. Dublin Core Bibliography.: TR96-1593, June 21, 1996.; URL: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/dublin.html
LeVan, Ralph. Dublin Core and Z39.50.: URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/core/documents/notes/notes-levan-19980202.htm
Lynch, Clifford. The Dublin Core Descriptive Metadata Program: Strategic Implications for Libraries and Networked Information Access.: ARL Newsletter 196, February 1998.; URL: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/196/dublin.html
Miller, Eric. An Approach for Packaging Dublin Core Metadata in HTML 2.0.: August 1996.; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/~emiller/publications/metadata/minimal.html
Miller, Eric, et. al.. Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF).: This is a draft working document.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/
Miller, Paul. An application of Dublin Core from the Archaeology Data Service.: 10 July 1996.; URL: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/dublin.html
Miller, Paul and Daniel Greenstein. Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Application of the Dublin Core.: The final report from the AHDS/UKOLN Resource Discovery Workshop series. October 1997.; URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/public/metadata/discovery.html
Miller, Paul. Metadata for the masses.: Ariadne, Issue 5, September 1996.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/metadata-masses/
Nordic Metadata Project. Dublin Core Metadata Template.: URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/metadata/DC_creator.html
OCLC. Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC).: URL: http://corc.oclc.org/
Open Archives Initiative.: A key component of the interoperability architecture is the use of the Dublin Core element set as the required resource discovery metadata vocabulary.; URL: http://www.openarchives.org/
Powell, Andy. Dublin Core Management .: Ariadne. July 1977.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/dublin/
Smith, Terence R. The Meta-Information Environment of Digital Libraries.: D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1996.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/new/07smith.html
Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records.: April 1996.; URL: http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/metadata.factoring.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/dublin3.htm
Tennant, Roy. Dublin Core Resource Types.: URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Metadata/types.html
UKOLN. Metadata Resources - Dublin Core.: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/
USMARC Advisory Group. Mapping the Dublin Core Metadata Elements to USMARC.: D.P. 86.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/dp86.txt; D.P. 86 Status URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/dp86s1.txt
Warwick, Cathro. Metadata: An Overview.: A paper given at the Standards Australia Seminar, August 1997.; URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/cathro3.html
Weibel, Stuart. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions.: DLIB Magazine, 6(12) December, 2000.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html
Weibel, Stuart. A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML.: DLIB Magazine, 5(4) April, 1999.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/04weibel.html
Weibel, Stuart. The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 1999.: A position paper from the May, 1996 W3C Workshop on Distributed Indexing and Searching.; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/~weibel/html-meta.html
Weibel, Stuart. The evolving metadata architecture for the World Wide Web: bringing together the semantics, structure and syntax of resource description.: ISDL '97: proceedings of [the] International Symposium on Research, Development and Practice in Digital Libraries 1997, November 18-21, 1997, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Tsukuba: University of Library and Information Science, pp. 16-22.; URL: http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL97/proceedings/weibe.html
Weibel, Stuart. and Lagoze, Carl. An element set to support resource discovery: the state of the Dublin Core, January 1997.: International Journal on Digital Libraries. 1997, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 176-186.
The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 1999.: A position paper from the May, 1996 W3C Workshop on Distributed Indexing and Searching.; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/~weibel/html-meta.html

Sampling of DC Projects

Australia. DSTC. Resource Discovery Unit.: URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/
Australia. Australian Metaweb Project.: URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/metaweb/
Australia. Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre (AGCRC).: URL: http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/
Australia. The Queensland Government Metadata Search Engine.: URL: http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/HotMeta/qld/search.html
Australia. National Archives. Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies.: URL: http://www.naa.gov.au/govserv/techpub/rkms/intro.htm; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rkms_pt1&2.pdf
Canada. searchBC: Search Engine and Web Directory for British Columbia, Canada.: URL: http://www.searchbc.com/
Denmark. danmeta: NWI Dublin Core Database for Denmark.: URL: http://gungner.ub2.lu.se/cgi-bin/egwcgi/57697/metaquery.egw;/-1+nwi.dtv.dk:5555/md
Germany. Metadaten-Projekt = Metadata Project.: URL: http://www2.sub.uni-goettingen.de/
Germany. SSG-Fachinformation (SSG-FI) Mathematick = Subject Area Information for Mathematics.: URL: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/
Germany. The German Educational Resources Server / Deutscher Bildungs-Server.: URL: http://dbs.schule.de/indexe.html
Germany. Math-Net.: URL: http://www.math-net.de/
Germany. Metadata in Physics / Metadaten in der Physik.: URL: http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/documents/UOL-THEO3-97-1/Metadaten-Workshop-Goettingen/
Netherlands. Koninklijke Bibliotheek/ The National Library of the Netherlands.: URL: http://www.konbib.nl/
Scandinavia. The Nordic Metadata Project.: URL: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/
Scandinavia. Swedish EnviroNet.: URL: http://smn.environ.se/miljonat/english/index.htm
Scandinavia. Netpublikationer.: URL: http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/online-pub/
Sweden. swemeta: NWI Dublin Core Database for Sweden.: URL: http://gungner.ub2.lu.se/cgi-bin/egwcgi/57696/metaquery.egw;/-1+desire2.lub.lu.se:2124/swemeta
United Kingdom. Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway and the Visual Arts Data Service.: URL: http://adam.ac.uk/; URL: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/
United Kingdom. AHDS Arts & Humanities Data Service.: URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/
United Kingdom. Dublin Core-based e-Government Metadata Framework.: URL: http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/
United Kingdom. Project BIBLINK.: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/biblink/
United Kingdom. Project DESIRE.: URL: http://www.desire.org/
United Kingdom. SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network).: URL: http://www.scran.ac.uk/
United Kingdom. NewsAgent for Libraries.: URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/newsagent/
United Kingdom. Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE II).: URL: http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/
United Kingdom. Resource for Urban Design Information.: The RUDI search engine is based around DC embedded dynamically into HTML Web pages, indexed using the Netscape Catalog Server.; URL: http://www2.rudi.net/rudi.html
United States. Florida International University Digital Library.: URL: http://www.fiu.edu/~diglib/
United States. Digital Library Catalog.: URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Catalog/
United States. Everglades Information Network & Digital Library.: URL: http://everglades.fiu.edu/
United States. Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM).: URL: http://www.geminfo.org/; GEM Cataloging Reference Manual describes the metadata model which is the 15 DC elements plus some additions.; URL: http://gem.syr.edu/Workbench/Cataloging/
United States. Internet Scout Project's Signpost.: URL: http://www.signpost.org/signpost/index.html
United States. Medical Metadata Project.: URL: http://medir.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ebm/latest.htm
United States. Monticello Electronic Library.: URL: http://athena.solinet.net/monticello/intro98.html
United States. University of Michigan Digital Library Registry Database.: URL: http://dns.hti.umich.edu/registry/
United States. University of Washington Digital Library.: URL: http://content.lib.washington.edu/
United States. Miscellany: Projects involving development of digital libraries for Federal and Corporate clients.: Example: Aviation Safety Digital Library; The example given would be an R&D website containing selected information primarily for general aviation.; Contact: Mike Raugh (raugh@interconnect.com) and Diane Hillman (dih1@cornell.edu)

GEOSPATIAL METADATA STANDARDS

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). ASTM Section D18.01.05 Draft Specification Content Specification for Digital Geospatial Metadata.: URL: http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/standards/index.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/astmd18.txt; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/astmd18.pdf
Australia. Environment Australia. Directories and Metadata.: URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/epcg/erin/guidelines/technical/retrieval/directory/directory.html
Australia. Department of Industry, Science and Resources. Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure.: URL: http://www.auslig.gov.au/asdi/index.htm
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).: URL: http://www.fgdc.gov/
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata.: URL: ftp://fgdc.er.usgs.gov/pub/metadata/meta6894.txt; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/meta6894.txt
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Metadata Standards Development.: URL: http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/metadata.html
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Frequently Asked Questions concerning the FGDC's Content Standard for Geospatial Metadata.: URL: http://www.its.nbs.gov/nbs/meta/faqa.htm
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). Directory Interchange Format (DIF) Writer's Guide.: URL: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/difguide/difman.html
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). Global Change Master Directory (GCMD).: DIF directory.; URL: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/difguide/difman.html
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). MetaData and WWW Mapping Home Page.: URL: http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION LOCATOR SERVICE (GILS)

U.S. Geological Survey. Government Information Locator Service.

URL: http://www.gils.net/

GILS Forum Listserv.

Archived since August 1994.

URL: http://www.gils.net/forum.html

Application Profile for GILS - Version 2.

URL: http://www.gils.net/prof_v2.html

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/prof_v2.htm

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Guidelines for the Preparation of GILS Core Entries.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/naragils.txt

International GILS Initiatives

Australia. Information Management Steering Committee (IMSC). Architecture For Access To Government Information.: Report of the Information Management Steering Committee (IMSC) -Technical Group. This group is tasked to investigate access architectures to government information in Australia, i.e. to Federal and State government information, and recommending future actions to follow.; URL: http://www.defence.gov.au/imsc/imsctg/imsctg1a.htm; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/imsctg1a.pdf
Canada. Government Information Locator Service.: URL: http://gils.gc.ca/
Canada. Guidelines for the Preparation of GILS Records.: URL: http://gils.gc.ca/gils/guide_e.html
Canada. Creating GILS Records in an SGML Environment.: URL: http://gils.gc.ca/gils/creatingg_e.html

IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS

Fourth DELOS Workshop: Image Indexing and Retrieval.: August 28-30, 1997: San Miniato.; URL: http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS4/index.html
Getty Art Institute. Categories for the Description of Works of Art.: URL: http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/cdwa/
Inventory of Metadata for Multimedia.: URL: http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surfworks/doc/mmmetadata/
NISO/CLIR/RLG. Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop.: August 18-18, 1999: Washington, DC.; URL: http://www.niso.org/image.html
Program for Cooperative Cataloging. Core Bibliographic Record for Audiovisual Materials Task Group.: URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/pccavcore.html
Research Libraries Group. RLG REACH Element Set for Shared Description of Museum Objects.: URL: http://www.rlg.org/reach.elements.html
Visual Resources Association. VRA Core Categories.: URL: http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/dsc.html

IAFA/WHOIS++ TEMPLATES

Publishing Information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP.: This document contains the IAFA templates. Please note that the document, as an Internet Draft has expired. I do not believe it has been adopted as an RFC by the IETF at this time. Later versions may be available from the authors.; Anonymous FTP Archives are a popular method of making material available to the Internet user community. This document specifies a range of indexing information that can be used to describe the contents and services provided by such archives. This information can be used directly by the user community when visiting parts of the archive. Further- more, automatic indexing tools can gather and index this information, thus making it easier for users to find and access it.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/iafa.txt
Beckett, David. IAFA Templates in use as Internet Metadata.: URL: http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/52/; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/becd1.txt
Field Descriptions for Document, Software, Image, Sound, Video, Mailarchive, USENET and FAQ IAFA Template Types.: URL: http://www.man.ac.uk/MVC//SIMA/MMFFDB/IAFA-help/document.html
Deutsch, Peter, et. al. Architecture of the WHOIS++ service.: RFC 1835. August, 1995.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1835.txt
Faltstrom, P., et. al. How to interact with a Whois++ mesh.: RFC 1914. February 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1914.txt
Weider, C., et. al. Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service.: RFC 1913. February 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1913.txt
The Common Indexing Protocol.: [Historic] Internet Draft. November 1996; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/cip1.txt

ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services.

ROADS templates were derived from the IAFA/WHOIS templates.

ROADS. Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services.: URL: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/
Heery, R. ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services.: Ariadne, No. 3, 1996.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue3/roads/
Heery, R. ROADS templates: how they are used.: September 1996.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/templates.html

MARC (MACHINE-READABLE CATALOGUE)

IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme (UBCIM). UNIMARC Information.: URL: http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/ubcim.htm
Library of Congress. Library of Congress MARC Office.
Library of Congress. Machine-readable Cataloging (MARC)
Library of Congress. MARC 21 formats: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/
Library of Congress. Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging. (5th Edition).: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/
Library of Congress. MARCXML, MODS: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marcxml; URL: http://www.loc.gov/mods
OCLC. Bibliographic formats and standards.: URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/about.htm
XMLMARC.: URL: http://xmlmarc.stanford.edu/

META CONTENT FORMAT (MCF)

"The Meta Content Framework (MCF) provides a system for representing a wide range of information about content. The content targeted includes web pages, gopher and ftp files, desktop files, email and structured (i.e., relational and object oriented) databases, etc. MCF is not intended to be an extension of markup languages such as HTML which can be used to hold embedded metadata. Instead it provides a format for holding the metadata externally to the content described. It is possible that metadata embedded in content will be extracted automatically by robots that use the MCF to represent the results of their activities. MCF should be able to represent the metadata that proposals such as the Dublin Core aim to cover."

HotSauce and Meta-Content Format.: TidBITS, 25 November 1996.; URL: http://www.ssrc.hku.hk/tb-issues/TidBITS-355.html
MCF Tutorial.: URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/MCF-tutorial.html
Meta Content Framework Using XML.: URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/

PLATFORM FOR INTERNET CONTENT SELECTION (PICS)

"Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is an infrastructure for associating labels with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing, privacy, and intellectual property rights management."

W3 Consortium. Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS).d: URL: http://www.w3.org/PICS/
Armstrong, Chris. Metadata, PICS and Quality.: Ariadne, No. 9, 1997.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/pics/
Miller, James S. W3C and Digital Libraries.: D-Lib Magazine, November 1996. Contains an overview on the use of PICS to form a base for encoding and transmitting metadata derived from the Dublin core and the Warwick framework.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/dlib/november96/11miller.html
Resnick, Paul. Filtering Information on the Internet.: URL: http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397resnick.html
Resnick, Paul and James Miller. PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship.: Communications of the ACM, October 1996. An overview of PICS.; URL: http://www.w3.org/PICS/iacwcv2.htm

SIMPLE HTML ONTOLOGY EXTENSIONS (SHOE)

Simple HTML Ontology Extensions (SHOE): URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/

HARVEST SUMMARY OBJECT INTERCHANGE FORMAT (SOIF)

The Harvest Home Page.: URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/
The Harvest Summary Object Interchange Format (SOIF).: URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/docs/old-manual/node151.html
Harvest User's Manual.: URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/docs/old-manual/

X3L8 PROPOSED ANSI STANDARD FOR DATA REPRESENTATION

[X3L8] Technical Committee X3L8, Data Representation.: URL: http://pueblo.lbl.gov/~olken/X3L8/
[X3L8] Other X3L8 and Related WWW Pages.: URL: http://pueblo.lbl.gov/~olken/X3L8/related.html

Z39.50 PROFILE FOR ACCESS TO DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND BIB-1 ATTRIBUTES

Library of Congress. Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Collections.: Draft Seven (Final Draft for Review). May 3, 1996.; URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/collections.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/z3950dcp.pdf
Library of Congress. Bib-1 Attribute Set.: URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/bib1.html
Library of Congress. Bib-1 Attribute Set Semantics.: September 1995.; URL: ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/z3950/defs/bib1.txt
Lynch, Clifford. Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in the Internet Environment.: RFC 1729. December 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1729.txt

SGML/XML BASED METADATA INITIATIVES

OVERVIEWS

Burnard, Lou and Richard Light. Three SGML metadata formats: TEI, EAD, and CIMI .: A Study for BIBLINK Work Package 1.1. December 1996.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/BIBLINK/wp1/; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/biblink2.pdf

ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (EAD)

Berkeley Finding Aids Conference.: April 4-6, 1995.; URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/EAD/bfac.html
Library of Congress. Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Official Web Site.: URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/
Library of Congress. Development of the Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition.: URL: http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadback.html
Research Libraries Group. RLG EAD Support Site.: URL: http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/
Society of American Archivists. Committee on Archival Information Exchange. Encoded Archival Description Working Group.: URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/EAD/eadwg.html
Society of American Archivists EAD Roundtable. EAD Help Pages.: URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/
University of California, Berkeley. EAD @ UC Berkeley.: URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ead/
University of California, Berkeley. Finding Aids for Archival Collections.: URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/

HTML META TAGS

SearchEngine Watch. How To Use Meta Tags.: "Before we start, let's make it clear: Meta tags are not a magic solution."; URL: http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
SearchEngine Watch. Search Engine Features Chart.: Chart shows which search engines "support" the use of META tags. What "support" really means is an entirely other issue.; URL: http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/features.html
Vancouver Webpages. A Dictionary of HTML META Tags.: URL: http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/
Web Developers Virtual Library. META Tagging for Search Engines.: URL: http://WWW.Stars.com/Search/Meta/Tag.html

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK (RDF)

W3 Consortium. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Activities.: URL: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
W3 Consortium. Introduction to RDF Metadata.: Ora Lassila. W3C NOTE 1997-11-13.; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-rdf-simple-intro
W3 Consortium. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification.: W3C Proposed Recommendation 05 January 1999.; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-rdf-syntax/
W3 Consortium. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification.: W3C Candidate Recommendation 27 March 2000.; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
Beckett, Dave. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resources.: URL: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/djb1/research/metadata/rdf.shtml
DTSC. Resource Description Framework (RDF).: UKOLUG, Manchester Conference Centre, July 1998.; URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/rdf/
Hardy, Darren. Resource Description Messages (RDM).: [Historic]. July 15, 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rdm.htm
Heery, Rachel. What is... RDF?: Ariadne, No. 14, 1998.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue14/what-is/
Miller, Eric. An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework.: D-Lib Magazine, May 1998.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html
Powell, Andy. RDF and the Dublin Core.: UKOLUG, Manchester Conference Centre, July 1998.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/ukolug98/
Swick, Ralph. Technical Overview of the Resource Description Framework.: W3C, WWW7, Brisbane, 18 April 1998.; URL: http://www.w3.org/Talks/1998/0418-WWW7-RDF/
Swick, Ralph and Dietl, Josef. RDF: Resource Description Framework.: W3C, WWW7, Brisbane, 17 April 1998.; URL: http://www.w3.org/Talks/1998/0417-WWW7-RDF/
W3 Consortium. Resource Description Messages (RDM): Technical Specification.: W3C NOTE 24-Jul-96.; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-rdm.html

TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE (TEI)

Text Encoding Initiative Home Page: URL: http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/
The TEI Header.: URL: http://etext.virginia.edu/bin/tei-tocs?div=DIV1&id=HD
Burnard, Lou. Text encoding for information interchange: an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative.: TEI Document no TEI J31, Oxford University Computing Services, July 1995.; URL: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/info/teij31/index.html
Burnard, Lou and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding forInterchange.: Document No: TEI U 5, June 1995.; URL: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/intros/teiu5.split.html
Gaynor, Edward. "Cataloging Electronic Texts: The University of Virginia Library Experience.": Library Resources and Technical Services, 38(4) 1994, pp.403-413.; Describes one of the first efforts to integrate electronic document cataloging in a conventional library environment; discusses aspects of mapping between TEI headers and MARC records.
Giordano, Richard. "The Documentation of Electronic Texts Using Text Encoding Initiative Headers: An Introduction.": Library Resources and Technical Services 38(4) 1994, pp.389-401.; Discusses the benefits and possible faults of the TEI header as a basis for electronic text cataloging. A basic introduction to TEI headers.
Hockey, Susan. Describing Electronic Texts: The Text Encoding Initiative and SGML.: URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/semdigdocs/hockey.html
Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. and Lou Burnard. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.: Chicago and Oxford, ALLC/ACH/ACL Text Encoding initiative, 1994.; URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/TEI.html

Collection Level Description

D-Lib Magazine.: URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september00/09contents.html
RSLP Collection Description.: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/

OBJECT IDENTIFIER INITIATIVES

OVERVIEWS

BIBLINK. Identification - Related resources.: URL: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp2/links.html
Arms, William. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Clifford Lynch's five questions on identifiers.: A rejoinder to the Clifford Lynch article below. October 13, 1997.; ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194 October 1997.; URL: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/arms.html
Berners-Lee, Tim. Document Naming.: URL: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Naming.html
Cameron, Robert D. Towards Universal Serial Item Names.: Technical Report 97-16, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, December 3, 1997.; URL: http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/USIN/USIN.html
Lynch, Clifford. Identifiers and Their Role in Networked Information Applications.: A concise, critical and highly recommended overview.; ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194 October 1997.; URL: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html
Green, Brian and Bide, Mark. Unique Identifiers: a brief introduction.: URL: http://www.bic.org.uk/uniquid
Paskin, Norman. Information Identifiers.: Originally published in Learned Publishing 10(2) April 1997, pp 135-156.; URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/infoident/
Payette, Sandra. Persistent Identifiers on the Digital Terrain.: RLG DigiNews 2(2) April 15, 1998.; URL: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews22.html
W3 Consortium. (organization) WWW Names and Addresses, URIs, URLs, URNs, URCs.: URL: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System.: URL: http://www.doi.org/
Paskin, Norman. DOI: Current Status and Outlook.: DLIb Magazine. 5(5) May, 1999.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/05paskin.html

HANDLE SYSTEM

CNRI. Handles and the Handle System.: The Handle System® is a distributed computer system which stores names, or handles, of digital items and which can quickly resolve those names into the information necessary to locate and access the items. It was designed by CNRI as a general purpose global system for the reliable management of information on networks such as the Internet over long periods of time and is currently in use in a number of prototype projects, including efforts with the Library of Congress, the Defense Technical Information Center, the International DOI Foundation, and the National Music Publishers' Association.; URL: http://hdl.handle.net/4263537/4000
CNRI. The Handle System, Version 4.0: An Overview.: URL: http://www.handle.net/overviews/hs-version4.html
CNRI. The CNRI Handle System Resolver.: The CNRI Handle System Resolver will enable Netscape (version 3.0 and higher) and Internet Explorer (version 3.0 and higher) Web browsers to recognize the handle protocol and resolve a handle to an associated URL or other data.; URL: http://www.handle.net/resolver/index.html
Grass, Judith and Arms, Williams Y. A Syntax for Distributed Object Handles.: August 3, 1994.; This document discusses some of the issues involved in designing a format for handles and specifies a syntax. This handle syntax specification conforms with the requirements of the DLS and allows object handles to work easily with a large number of existing Internet navigation tools.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/hdl_form.txt
Kahn, Robert and Wilensky, Robert. A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services.: May 13, 1995.; URL: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/k-w.html
Kahn, Robert and Wilensky, Robert. Locating Electronic Library Services and Objects: A Frame of Reference for the CS-TR Project.: September 2, 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/handles2.txt
Handle System: A Persistent Global Name Service Overview and Syntax.: IETF Internet Draft.; Abstract: The Handle System® is a comprehensive system for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers, known as 'handles' for digital objects and other resources on the Internet. Handles can be used as Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The Handle System defines:(a) an open set of protocols, (b) a global namespace, and (c) a distributed service model that provides the global name service. The system allows Internet resources to be named as handles. A handle may contain the information necessary to locate and access its named resources. This associated information can be changed as needed to reflect the current state of the identified resource without changing the handle, thus allowing the name of the item to persist over changes of location and other state information. Combined with a centrally administered naming authority registration service, the Handle System provides a general purpose, distributed global name service for the reliable management of information on networks over long periods of time. (Note that in this document we do not attempt to distinguish between the terms 'name' and 'identifier' and will use them interchangeably.); URL: http://hdl.handle.net/4263537/4006

PUBLISHER ITEM IDENTIFIER (PII)

Publisher Item Identifier (PII).: URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/pii/
American Chemical Society. Publisher Item Identifier as a means of document identification.: URL: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/pubiden.html

PERSISTENT UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (PURL)

Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL).: URL: http://purl.org/

SERIAL ITEM AND CONTRIBUTION IDENTIFIER STANDARD (SICI)

Serial Item and Contribution Identifier Standard (SICI).: URL: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/SICI/
Schwarz, Fritz and Cindy Hepfer. "Changes to the Serial Item and Contribution Identifier and the Effects of Those on Publishers and Libraries": The Serials Librarian 28(3/4), 1996, pp. 367-70.

IETF UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS DOCUMENTS

There have been many proposals in various IETF Working Groups pertaining to metadata characteristics and models. RFCs are documents that are provided to the Internet community by the IETF as being of general interest, documenting existing practices, or as Internet standards. Internet-Drafts have no standing except as working papers. These remain useful documents for learning about the dimensions of the problem of metadata. Check the IETF Home Page <URL: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/ > for information about currently active working groups.

Although some of documents here are marked as Internet-Drafts, and as such do not have any current status as Internet standards or even as work-in-progress, they are included in this collection as the documents are a useful historical background for anyone developing a familiarity with the range of issues and approaches being examined for Internet resource discovery. Expired Internet Drafts should not be quoted nor referred to as representative of current or future practice.
Active IETF Working Groups.: URL: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/wg-dir.html
RFC Index.: URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt
Internet Drafts Index.: URL: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/1id-abstracts.html

UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFERS/LOCATORS (URIs/URLs)

uri@w3.org Mail Archives.: URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/
IETF Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Working Group.: Note: The URI WG is now closed and the work being distributed to other groups.; URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/
Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW.: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web. RFC 1630. June 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1630.txt
A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service.: RFC 1727. December 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1727.txt
Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators.: RFC 1736. February 1995.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1736.txt
Uniform Resource Locators (URL).: RFC 1738. December 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1738.txt
Relative Uniform Resource Locators.: RFC 1808. June 1995.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1808.txt
An LDAP URL Format.: RFC 1959. June 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1959.txt
Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50.: RFC 2056. November 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc2056.txt
Daniel, Ron and Mealling, Michael. Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System.: RFC 2168. June 1997.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc2168.txt
Location-Independent URLs or URNs considered harmful.: [Historic] Internet Draft.; This document describes a means by which location-independent access to resources can be provided, without creating a new class of resource names. Instead, a resolution service is proposed for existing URLs, which allows information providers to advertise meta-information about a resource named by a URL, and/or alternate locations from which that particular resource might be accessed. Depending on your point of view, the approach described in this document might be taken as one or more of: (a) an alternative solution to the "URL problem", (b) a strategy for gradual transition from URLs to URNs, or (c) a worst-case scenario in the event that URN adoption takes too long.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn6.txt
Uniform Resource Agents (URA's).: [Historic] Internet Draft.; This paper proposes Uniform Resource Agents (URA's) as a means of specifying composite net-access tasks. Tasks are described as "composite" if they require the construction and instantiation of one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) or Uniform Resource Names (URN's), and/or if they require transformation of information returned from instantiating URL's/URN's. The paper presents the underlying concepts of URA's, proposes an architecture, and introduces a prototype application that has been built following the general principles of these URA's.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/ura.txt
Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50.: [Historic] Internet Draft.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urlz3950.txt
Mailserver URL Specification.: [Historic] Internet Draft.; A new URL scheme, "mailserver", is defined. It allows mail client software to create RFC822 mail messages from a URL.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urlmail.txt
finger URL Specification.: [Historic] Internet Draft.; A new URL scheme, "finger", is defined. It allows client software to request information from finger servers that conform to RFC 1288.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urlfnger.txt

UNIFORM RESOURCE NAMES (URNs)

LaLiberte, Dan. Uniform Resource Names (URNs).: URL: http://list.gatech.edu/archives/urn/
Universal Resource Names HyperNews Archive.: URL: http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/www/URNs.html
Sollins, Karen and Masinter, Larry. Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names.: RFC 1737. December 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1737.txt
Moats, R. URN Syntax.: RFC 2141. May 1997.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc2141.txt
IETF. URN Working Group.: URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html
The URN Interperability Project (TURNIP).: URL: http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/TURNIP/
The URN Implementors. Uniform Resource Names: A Progress Report.: D-Lib Magazine, February 1996.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february96/02arms.html
Gulbrandsen, A. and P. Vixie. A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV).: RFC 2052. October 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc2052.txt
Daigle, Leslie L., Patrik Faltstrom and Renato Iannella. A Framework for the Assignment and Resolution of Uniform Resource Names.: Internet Draft. June 13, 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urnframe.txt
Daniel, Ron. Conventions for the Use of HTTP for URN Resolution.: [Historic] Internet Draft. November, 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urnhttp.txt
Sollins, Karen. Requirements and a Framework for URN Resolution Systems.: [Historic] Internet Draft. November, 1996.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urnreq.txt
Browne, Shirley and Keith Moore. Issues Concerning URN Assignment and Resolution.: [Historic] Internet Draft. July 1995.; A number of schemes have been proposed over the past year or so for assigning and resolving Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and for associating meta-information with URNs. The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Working Group is currently faced with the task of evaluating these schemes. The schemes all claim to satisfy the functional requirements for URNs stated in RFC 1737. A number of additional issues that will be helpful to consider for purposes of evaluation are listed and discussed in this draft. Although this draft is long on questions and short on answers, it attempts to distill the issues on which consensus (even if it's agreement to disagree) needs to be reached before progress on standardization can be made.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn7.txt
Fielding, Roy. How Roy would Implement URNs and URCs Today.: [Historic] Internet Draft. July, 1995.; This document describes how the author would implement Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and Uniform Resource Characteristics (URCs), such that the basic concepts and technology can be usable by today's World-Wide Web clients and servers. It is intended to identify the key ingredients which make the WWW extensible and open to the introduction of URNs and URCs, and thereby steer the implementors of URI technology toward more consistent solutions.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn8.txt
Hoffman, Paul and Ron Daniel. URN Resolution Overview.: [Historic] Internet Draft. October 1995.; This document gives an overview of how Uniform Resource Names (URNs) will be resolved. It describes how different URN resolution schemes will fit together, the requirements for the multiple URN schemes, expectations for URN clients, and other general resolution issues. This document does not cover any specific resolution schemes, the syntax for URNs, or the format of resolution results. It is expected that these issues (and other URN-related topics) will be covered in different Internet Drafts submitted to the IETF URI Working Group.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn3.txt
Hoffman, Paul and Ron Daniel. Generic URN Syntax.: [Historic] Internet Draft. October 1995.; This document defines the syntax for Uniform Resource Names (URNs). This syntax is basically the same as the URN syntax described in RFC 1630.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn4.txt
Hoffman, Paul and Ron Daniel. x-dns-2 URN Scheme.: [Historic] Internet Draft. October 1995.; This document defines a scheme for resolving Uniform Resource Names (URNs) using the domain name system. The scheme, called x-dns-2, allows URN publishers to create URN resolvers without central registration, and without changing or adding any domain names.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn5.txt
Iannella, Renato, Sue Hoylen and Danny Leong. BURNS: Basic URN Service resolution for the Internet.: Research Data Network Cooperative Research Centre. Resource Discovery Unit.; URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/APweb96/index.html
LaLiberte, Daniel and Michael Shapiro. The Path URN Specification.: [Historic] Internet Draft. January, 1996.; A new "path" URN scheme is proposed that defines a uniformly hierarchical name space. This URN scheme supports dynamic relocation and replication of resources. Existing DNS technology is used to resolve a path into sets of equivalent URLs, and then one URL is resolved into the named resource.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn2.txt
Madsen, Marc. A Critique of Existing URN Proposals.: [Historic] Internet Draft. July 1995.; This document criticises existing URN (Uniform Resource Name) proposals in the light of generality, extensibility, and general futureproofing. The idea is to draw upon the best characteristics of the existing proposals so as to converge on an acceptably functional and nonrestrictive draft specification for both URN syntax and resolution schemes.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn9.txt
McGrath, Robert E. How URNs Work.: [Historic] Internet Draft. 18 November 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/mcgr1.txt
Shafer, Keith, et. al. URN Services.: [Historic] Internet Draft. January, 1996.; This document focuses on the syntax and function of URNs, the nature of registered and unregistered naming authorities, and the relationships of URNs to an open-ended variety of resolution services that might link these objects within the URI architecture.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urn1.txt
Sollins, Karen. Thoughts on Standardizing URN Resolution Protocols.: [Historic] Internet Draft. June 26, 1995.; The problem of standardizing URN resolution needs to be thought through carefully. If we partition the problem of name resolution, it becomes clearer that the user to resolution service interaction should be standardized. In contrast, in order to support a variety of models, behaviors, and other policies for name resolution services, we must allow for a multiplicity of such services, each perhaps requiring a different protocol between its servers. The URI group can still limit its efforts, but should support more than one such service as a proof of concept that multiple service types can be supported.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/sollins.txt

UNIFORM RESOURCE CHARACTERISTICS (URCs)

URCs are descriptions of Internet-accessible resources. A resource may be described by 0 or more URCs. There is no central URC service, instead URCs provide a standard scheme for different sites to provide descriptions.

HyperMail archive of URC-WG mailing list.: URL: http://smash.gatech.edu/archives/urc/
URC hypermail archive.: URL: http://list.gatech.edu/archives/urc/
Daniel, Ron Jr. and Michael Mealling. URC Scenarios and Requirements.: [Historic] Internet Draft. March 24, 1995.; This draft describes the place of the Uniform Resource Characteristic (URC) service within the overall context of Uniform Resource Identification on the Internet. It presents several scenarios illustrating how the URC service might be used. From these usage scenarios, we derive a set of requirements that any proposed URC services must meet.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urc2.txt
Daniel, Ron Jr. and Terry Allen. An SGML-based URC Service.: [Historic] Internet Draft. June 16, 1995.; The URI Working Group has been developing an architecture where Internet resources are identified using a Uniform Resource Name (URN), and retrieved using a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Mapping URNs to URLs is the job of the Uniform Resource Characteristics (URC) service, whose requirements were given in [1]. This paper presents one possible specification for the URC service. This spec provides the means for the URC service to formally specify new capabilities, while retaining the speed that is paramount to the fundamental use of the URC service as the means for URN to URL resolution.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urc3.txt
Hoffman, Paul and Daniel, Ron, Jr. Trivial URC Syntax: urc0.: [Historic] Internet Draft. October 21, 1995.; This document defines a trivial, machine-parsable Uniform Resource Citiation (URC) syntax that can be returned from the resolution of Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The syntax, called urc0, is also appropriate for any program that can return URCs. More sophisticated URC schemes will be developed later. urc0 is intended to be the simplest possible machine-parsable representation of a URC.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/urc1.txt
LaLiberte, Dan and Michael Shapiro. Uniform Resource Characteristics (URCs).: URL: http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/www/URCs.html

SELECTED BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

American Library Association. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). ALCTS Taskforce on Meta Access Final Report.: URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/about/final.html; URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/meta.html
American Library Association. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Task Force on Metadata and the Cataloging Rules.: Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access. Task Force on Metadata and the Cataloging Rules.; Final Report URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/tf-tei2.html
Australia. Information Management Steering Committee on Information Management in the Commonwealth Government. Management of Government Information as a National Strategic Resource.: Report of the Information Management Steering Committee on Information Management in the Commonwealth Government. September 1997.; URL: http://www.dcita.gov.au/ogo/imsc/imscrept.htm
Australia. Search Engine Working Group (SEWG). Functional Requirements for a Whole-of-Australian-Government Search Architecture.: A Report by the Search Engine Working Group (SEWG), January 1998.; URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/sewg/
Bearman, David. Research issues in metadata.: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, Pittsburgh, Pa., 28-30 May.; URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cerar/s4-db.htm
Bearman, David and Sochats, Ken. Metadata Requirements for Evidence.: URL: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~nhprc/BACartic.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/bead1.txt
Berners-Lee, Tim. Metadata Architecture: Documents, Metadata, and Links.: URL: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Metadata
Brodie, Maxine. In the Company of Strangers: Challenges and Opportunities in Metadata Implementation.: Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library Conference, London, UK: June 16-17, 1997.; URL: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html
Buckland, MD. et.al. Mapping Entry Vocabulary to Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies.: D-Lib Magazine, 5(1) January 1999.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/buckland/01buckland.html
Cap Ventures. "Metadata - What It Is and Why We Need It on the Web.": Gilbane Report on Open Information and Document Systems 5(5) September/October 1997, pp. 1-15.
Caplan, P. You call it corn, we call it syntax-independent metadata for document-like objects.: Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995 vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 19-23.; URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n4/capl6n4.html
CNIDR. Scientific and Technical Attribute and Element Set (STAS).: URL: http://www.cnidr.org/ir/stas.html
Cromwell, Willy. "The Core Record: A New Bibliographic Standard.": Library Resources and Technical Services 38(4) 1994, pp.415-424,; A background paper on the development of a new cataloging level intended to reduce the costs of cataloging; less extensive than conventional full-level cataloging, more detailed than minimal-level cataloging.
Day, Michael. Extending metadata for digital preservation.: Ariadne, No. 9, 1997.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/metadata/
Day, Michael. Metadata for Preservation.: CEDARS Project Document AIW01.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html
Day, Michael. CEDARS: digital preservation and metadata.: 6th DELOS Workshop: Preservation of Digital Information, Tomar, Portugal, 17-19 June 1998.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/delos6/cedars.html
Dempsey, Lorcan. Meta Detectors.: Ariadne, No. 3, 1996.; URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue3/metadata/
Dempsey, Lorcan. Metadata: a UK HE Perspective.: Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library Conference, London, UK: June 16-17, 1997.; URL: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html
Dempsey, Lorcan. ROADS to Desire: Some UK and Other European Metadata and Resource Discovery Projects.: D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1996.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/dlib/july96/07dempsey.html; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/07dempsey.html
Dempsey, Lorcan and Heery, Rachel. A review of metadata: a survey of current resource description formats.: Work Package 3 of Telematics for Research project DESIRE (no. 1004).; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/overview/; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/d32p1.pdf
Desai, Bipin C. The Semantic Header and Indexing and Searching on the Internet.: This paper describes an indexing system called semantic header for Internet resources. The semantic header contains the meta-information for each "publicly" accessible resource on the Internet. It also describes the registering system and the distributed database representing the union catalog of resources on the Internet. This database would be used in a search system to facilitate search.; URL: http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/bcdesai/cindi-system-1.0.html
Economic Commission for Europe. Providing Global Access to Distributed Data througth Metadata Standardisation: The Parallel Stories of NESSTAR and the DDI.: STATISTICAL COMMISSION and Working Paper No. 10.; PDF: http://www.nesstar.org/papers/GlobalAccess.html
Engelbart, Douglas C. Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System.: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, Los Angeles, CA October 1990, 7-10, pp. 143-156.; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/engd1.pdf
Heery, R. Resource description: initial recommendations for metadata formats.: Peer review draft of deliverable for Work Package 3 of Telematics for Research project DESIRE). July 1996.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/recommendations/
Heery, R. Metadata Formats.: BIBLINK Study of Metadata.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/review.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/biblink1.pdf
Heery, R. Review of metadata formats.: Pre-publication draft of article published in: Program,Vol. 30, no.4, October 1996, pp. 345-373.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/review.html
Iannella, Renato and Waugh, Andrew. Metadata: Enabling the Internet.: URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/CAUSE97/; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/ianr1.pdf
Irlam, Gordon. Naming.: "Naming is one of the most important and most frequently overlooked areas of computer science. In computing it is rumoured: Everything is a naming problem."; URL: http://www.base.com/gordoni/naming.html
Knight, Jon. "Resource Discovery on the Internet.": The New Review of Information Networking 1996, pp. 3-14.
Koch, Traugott and Day, Michael. The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery .: DESIRE Project. February 1997.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/d32p3.pdf
Lasher, Rebecca and Cohen, Danny. A Format for Bibliographic Records.: RFC 1807. June 1995.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1807.txt
Library of Congress. Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk.: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html
Lynch, Clifford, et. al. CNI White Paper on Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval.: URL: http://www.cni.org/projects/nidr/nidr.html
Lynch, Clifford. Metadata: Moving from Planning to Implementation.: Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library Conference, London, UK: June 16-17, 1997.; URL: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html
Lynch, Clifford. Searching the Internet.: Scientific American, March 1997.; URL: http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397lynch.html
Miller, Eric J. Issues of Document Description in HTML.: Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, Ohio; URL: http://www.oclc.org:5046/~emiller/tmp/issues.html; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/mile1.htm
Moore, Keith, et. al. Bulk File Distribution in the Internet Information Infrastruture.: [Historic.]; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/mook1.htm
Moore, Keith, et. al. An Architecture for Bulk File Distribution.: [Historic.]; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/bfd.txt
OCLC. Bibliographic Formats and Standards.: URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/about.htm
Powell, Andy. Simple Collection Description.: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cld/simple/
Program for Cooperative Cataloguing. Collection Level Core Cataloging Record: Proposal.: The Collection level core cataloging elements proposed below are based on the work of a group of visual arts Librarians (the RLG Art and Architecture Group "Inaccessible Domain" Materials Working Group) concerned to develop specifications for cataloging ephemeral materials.; URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/collevelcore.html
RLG Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata. Final report.: Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, May 1998.; URL: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html
Rothenberg, Jeff. Metadata to Support Data Quality and Longevity.: URL: http://www.computer.org/conferences/meta96/rothenberg_paper/ieee.data-quality.html
Rusch-Feja, Diann. Metadata: Standards for Retrieving WWW Documents (and Other Digitized and Non-Digitized Resources).: Library and Information Services in Astronomy III. Eds. U. Grotkopf, H. Andernach, S. Stevens-Rayburn and M. Gomez. 1998, pp. 157-165.; URL: http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/lisa3/ruschfejad.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/drusch.pdf
Rust, Godfrey. Metadata: The Right Approach: An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce.: D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rust/07rust.html
Schaefer, Mary Tonne. "Demystifying Metadata: Initiatives for Web Document Description.": Information Retrieval and Library Automation, 33(11), April 1998, pp. 1-5.; A good overview of what librarianship has traditionally brought to the management of information, including issues of description and access, and how these same capabilities are necessary for information in electronic format accessible via wide-area computer networks.
Sullivan, Danny. The New Meta Tags Are Coming - Or Are They?.: The Search Engine Report December 4, 1997.; URL: http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/sereport/97/12-metatags.html
Taylor, Arlene G. "The information universe: Will we have chaos or control?": American Libraries, 25(7), pp.629-632, 1994.; A good overview of what librarianship has traditionally brought to the management of information, including issues of description and access, and how these same capabilities are necessary for information in electronic format accessible via wide-area computer networks.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Intent to Develop a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for a Data Standard for Record Description Records.: Announced in the U.S. Federal Register on February 28, 1995.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/nist1.htm
Ward, Nigel, et. al. Discussion Paper: Networked Information Retrieval Standards.: Resource Discovery Unit, Research Data Network CRC. The University of Queensland, Australia.; URL: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/webir.html
Weibel, Stu. Metadata: The Foundations of Resource Description.: D-Lib Magazine, July 1995.; URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07weibel.html
Weider, C. Resource Transponders.: RFC 1728. December, 1994.; URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rfc1728.txt
W3 Consortium. The HTML 2.0 META Element.: URL: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.2.5
Xu, Amanda. Metadata Conversion and the Library OPAC.: URL: http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/xu.htm; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/xu.pdf

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS

Digital Libraries 99: Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries.: August 11-14, 1999: Berkeley, CA.; URL: http://www.acm.org/sigir/DL99-call.html
European Commission. Third Metadata Workshop Report.: Luxembourg, 12 April 1999.; URL: http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata/metadata3.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/ec9904.pdf
Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL98).: September 19-23 1998: Heraklion, Crete, Greece.; URL: http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/
TEI and XML in Digital Libraries.: July 30-31, 1998: Washington, D.C.; URL: http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf/
European Commission. Report of the Second Metadata Workshop.: Luxembourg. June 26, 1998.; URL: http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata2.html; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/ec9806.pdf
Digital Libraries 98: Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries.: June 23-26, 1998: Pittsburgh, PA.; URL: http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/dl/276675/
11th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Metadata for Web Databases.: May 25-26, 1998: Sankt Augustin, Germany.; URL: http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/11th-EDRG/index.html
Managing Metadata For The Digital Library: Crosswalks Or Chaos?: May 4-5, 1998: Washington, D.C.; URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/metadata.html
Using Web Metadata: Part 1: The Dublin Core. Part 2: The Resource Description Framework.: WWW7 Tutorial, April 10, 1998: Brisbane, Australia.; URL: http://staff.oclc.org/~emiller/talks/www7/tutorial/
European Commission. First Metadata Workshop Report.: Luxembourg. December 1-2, 1997.; URL: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/ec/metadata-1997/; PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/ec9712.pdf
First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL98).: September 1-3, 1997: Pisa, Italy.; URL: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw31/peters.html
Second IEEE Metadata Conference.: September 16-17, 1997: NOAA, Silver Spring MD.; URL: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html; Proceedings URL: http://computer.org/proceedings/meta97/
Terminology and Related Topics in Data and Knowledge Sharing.: July 29, 1997: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.; URL: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/970729c.htm
RLG Metadata Summit.: Research Libraries Group. July 1, 1997: Mountain View, California.; URL: http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html
Digital Libraries 97: Second ACM Conference on Digital Libraries.: June 24-27, 1997: Pittsburgh, PA.; URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/
Metadata for Electronic Texts Workshop Report: A Report of the Results of the Metadata Workshop Organized by the Oxford Text Archive.: May 2, 1997: Oxford, England.; URL: http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ota/public/publications/ahds/metarep1.html
Report of the Joint Workshop on Standards for the Use of Models that Define the Data and Processes of Information Systems.: September 9-12, 1996: Bellevue, Washington.; URL: http://www.mel.nist.gov/workshop/jtc1-96/report.htm
Report of the Workshop on Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation and an associated Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials.: Held in York, England, December 7-8, 2000.
Both the workshop and the conference focussed heavily on emerging models for preservation metadata.; URL: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-6.html#feature2

METADATA TOOLS

Distributed Systems Technology Center (DTSC). Reggie - The Metadata Editor.: URL: http://metadata.net/dstc/
Interleaf.: Commercial software.; URL: http://www.interleaf.com/products/
Jenkins, Charlotte. Automatic RDF Metadata Generator.: URL: http://scitsd.wlv.ac.uk:8080/metadata.html
MARC.pm.: Open source Perl module to manipulate MARC records in transmission format.; URL: http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/
MetaManage.: "MetaManage is a simple but flexible tools that allows a metadata framework to be placed around HTML collections. It supports Dublin Core and AGLS standards. The schema is also able to be extended and customised."; URL: http://www.metamanage.com/
Nordic Metadata Project. Dublin Core Metadata Template.: URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/metadata/DC_creator.html
OCLC. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative / Tools.: URL: http://dublincore.org/tools/
ONIX Product Information Standards. Tools for reading: URL: http://www.editeur.org/onix.html
The international standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in electronic form
Built by Editeur http://www.editeur.org/
SafeSurf. Meta Generator.: This form will generate tags for a multi-valued, multidimensional ratings scheme for classifying Web pages, ie. PICS.; URL: http://www.safesurf.com/classify/index.html
U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). DC-dot. Dublin Core Generator.: This experimental 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 or GILS) if necessary. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). Metadata Software Tools.: A set of PERL scripts used to facilitate the creation of metadata records.; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/software-tools/
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). Global Change Master Directory. DIF-Writing Tools.: URL: http://gcmd.nasa.gov/software_docs/dif_tools.html
Vancouver Webpages. META builder.: This form will generate META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document. These tags allow better indexing by robot-driven search engines, such as AltaVista, Infoseek and searchBC.; URL: http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html
Vancouver Webpages. A script to build META tags using the Dublin Core types.: "There can be more than one scheme for each metadata element. Each scheme.element pair has its own META tag. Thus, you may need to run this script more than once and combine the output."; URL: http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-dublin.html

Search Engines

These search engines support indexing of structured fields and searching of fielded information.

Blue Angel Technologies. MetaStar.: Provides a comprehensive suite of metadata creation, indexing, and search tools.; URL: http://www.blueangeltech.com/
Information Dimensions, Inc. Basis Webserver.: Commercial product. Offers fielded searching.; URL: http://www.idi.oclc.org/
FreeWAIS-SF.: URL: http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/ir/projects/freeWAIS-sf/
IKnow.: Iknow is a whois++ library and server implementation, including centroid creation and forward knowledge indexing.; URL: http://www.cnidr.org/ir/ir.html
PLWeb Turbo.: Free. Provides indexing on structured fields and fielded searching.; URL: http://www.pls.com/
Fulcrum Technologies Inc. SurfBoard.: Commerial product.; URL: http://www.fulcrum.com/
SWISH-E: Simple Web Indexing Software for Humans - Enhanced.: SWISH-E is a free software program that will index document collections and that supports metadata searching.; URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/