News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.

Background information and a technical specification for this metadata format.

David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.

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.

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.

IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.

A collection of rated, reviewed online resources in cataloguing.

Specializes in metadata and high value data conversion. It contracts work out to monks and nuns throughout the United States.

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.

Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.

Løser opgaver vedrørende håndtering af store databaser, distribueret information og søgning. Benytter bl.a. XML, Z39.50 og Dublin Core.

Provides an introduction and internet resources on metadata for the small library.

An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.

Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.

Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.

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.

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.

Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.

Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.

European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.

Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).

Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.

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.

Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Describes ontologies for science.

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.

Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.

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.

Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking

Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.

Non-profit organization for advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. Features newsletter, conferences, contacts and membership details.

Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.

By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.