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Metadata Reference Guide

 
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A guide to metadata by the Metadata Advisory Group of the MIT Libraries

Suggested Readings

General

Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (A division of the American Library Association) Cataloging and Classification Section, Committee on Cataloging: " Description and Access Task Force on ONIX International Interim Report", June 7, 2001,
http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/tf-onix2.html


Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository (Draft) by OCLC and RLG
http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf

Caplan, Priscilla. International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control. Presented at the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/caplan_paper.html

Duval, Erik et. al. Metadata Principles and Practicalities D-Lib Magazine, April 2002, Volume 8 Number 4
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html

Forum for Metadata Schema Implementers, Watch Report #1:
http://www.schemas-forum.org/metadata-watch/first/section3.2.html

Gill, Tony. Metadata and the World Wide Web.
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/pdf/gill.pdf

Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. Setting the Stage.
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/
standards/intrometadata/2_articles/index.html

International Metadata Initiative:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/caplan_paper.html

Woodley, Mary. Crosswalks: the Path to Universal Access.
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/
intrometadata/2_articles/woodley/index.html


DDI

Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) home page:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/

XML cover page on DDI (Data Documentation Initiative):
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ddi.html


Dublin Core

Dublin Core home page:
http://dublincore.org/index.shtml

Greenberg, Jane, et. al. Author Generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources. Journal of Digital Information, Volume 2, Issue 2
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Greenberg/


EAD

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) help pages:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/readings.html


FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) home page:
http://www.fgdc.gov

Federal Geographic Data Committee. FGDC-STD-001-1998. Content standard for digital geospatial metadata (revised June 1998). Federal Geographic Data Committee. Washington, D.C.

Federal Geographic Data Committee, FGDC-STD-001-1998. Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Workbook version 2.0. Federal Geographic Metadata Committee, Washington DC. 5/1/200

Nedovic-Budic, Zorica and Jeffrey K. Pinto, " Interorganizational GIS: Issues and Prospects." The Annals of Regional Science" (1999) 33:183--195

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) home page:
http://www.pasda.psu.edu/metadata/index.shtml

Tschango, John Kim, " Metadata for geo-spatial data sharing: A comparative analysis." The Annals of Regional Science" (199) 33:171-181


IEEE LOM/IMS

IMS Global Learning Consortium home page:
http://www.imsproject.org/press.html


Image Metadata and VRI Core

" Digital Imagery for Works of Art" Mellon NSF report:
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/mellon/report.html

Meaning and Metadata: Managing Information in a Visual Resource Reference Collection, by Judith Thomas
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/thomas.html


ONIX

Medeiros N., Metadata for e-commerce: the ONIX International standard, OCLC Systems & Services, MCB University Press, 29 August 2001, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 114-117(4)

Needleman M.H.ONIX (Online Information Exchange) Serials Review, December 2001, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 102-104(3)

Netread, ONIX , 2000:
http://www.netread.com/onix

ONIX International home page:
http://www.editeur.org/onix.html

ONIX Product Information Standards Release 2.0:
http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.0/onixfiles.html.

Powerpoint presentations on ONIX International:
http://www.bic.org.uk/onixsem.html

 

TEI

Guidelines for electronic encoding and interchange:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tei/

Projects Using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI):
http://www.tei-c.org/Applications/

Teach yourself Text Encoding Initiative (TEI):
http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines:
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/p3/

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) homepage:
http://www.tei-c.org/


 

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