Surf these sites: Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources -- IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources Meta Matters -- An excellent overview and guide to metadata (particularly Dublin Core) from the National Library of Australia. Metadata : Why should we care? -- By Kathleen Forsythe and Diana Brooking. University of Washington. Metadata Information Clearinghouse -- A database of information on all sorts of metadata produced by the Association of American Publishers. Metadata at W3C -- Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium. Metadata projects, resources, workshops -- European Commission: Telematics for Libraries. Metadata.Net Home Page -- Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC). Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name -- Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman, ONLINE, January 1999 Nordic Metadata Projects -- Useful software and documentation developed by the Nordic Council for Scientific Information. Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies -- This standard describes the metadata that the National Archives of Australia recommends should be captured in the recordkeeping systems used by Commonwealth government agencies. The text of the standard is available in html, pdf, and downloadable as a zip file. Task Force on Metadata -- Committee on Cataloging: Description and Analysis. American Library Association. Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata -- URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, Dublin Core, etc. The MetaWeb Project -- The aim of the Metadata Tools and Services project - known as MetaWeb - is to develop indexing services, user tools, and metadata element sets in order to promote the use of, and exploitation of metadata on the Internet. UKOLN Metadata -- Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking Web Standards for Describing Data: Portions of the Landscape -- Slides from a talk given at the American Library Association Annual Conference meeting of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, Task Force on Metadata, June 27, 1999 by Eric Miller of OCLC and Diane Hillmann of Cornell University. What is Metadata? -- Alexandria Digital Library XML & Metadata Developer Central -- Netscape XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us. -- By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
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