Metadata related Links & Standards

• Classic MARC (MARC 2709)
• MARC XML
• A data element set defined by content designation and semantics
• Institutions do not store “MARC 21”, as it is a communications format

• An XML descriptive metadata standard
• A derivative of MARC

ü  Uses language based tags

ü  Contains a subset of MARC data elements

ü  Rich, but not as rich as full MARC

• Does not assume the use of any specific rules for description
• Slowly gaining acceptance as an alternative to MARC in digital library environments

• Maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• DC Element Set (or Simple DC) – 15 elements, all optional and repeatable
• DC Metadata Terms or Qualified DC – Simple DC + additional elements, refinements, and encoding schemes

• Maintained by the Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee
• Meant to describe both the original piece and the visual representation (photograph, slide, digital resource)
• Content guidelines: Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) – now in draft form

• Meant to describe ‘learning objects’, i.e. “small units of instructional content that can be reused in different contexts.”

• Part of the Text Encoding Initiative Standard (an XML based mark-up language for texts)
• Meant to provide the descriptive information about the text itself, its source, its encoding, and its revisions.
• More than just descriptive metadata: technical and administrative

• Meant to mark-up archival finding aids
• Hierarchical collection description

• Unitary collection description
• No standard scheme yet, but Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile is close
• Growing importance in federated and aggregated search environments

• publisher driven standard for exchanging information in electronic form

• Describes digital spatial data

• Social science datasets

• The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium

• Industry standard; operates similarly to METS. Meant for multimedia applications; includes rights and IP information.

• Look for this in your ETL tools
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Warehouse_Metamodel

• http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm

• The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usabaility.
• http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

• Statistical Data & Metadata Exchange
• http://sdmx.org/

• SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web.
• Based on RDF – Resource Description Framework
• http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

• EDM Council Financial Industry Business Ontology
• In conjunction with Object Management Group
• http://www.edmcouncil.org/financialbusiness

• ISO/IEC 11179, Information Technology — Metadata registries (MDR)
• Part 1: Framework
• Part 2: Classification
• Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes
• Part 4: Formulation of data definition
• Part 5: Naming and identification principles
• Part 6: Registration

• ISO/IEC 19763 Information Technology — Metamodel Framework for Interoperability (MFI)
• The 19763 standard is a multipart standard that includes the following parts:
• Part 1: Reference model
• Part 2: Core model (merged with basic mapping from part 4 to become Part 10)
• Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration
• Part 4: Metamodel for model mapping (split between Parts 10 and 11)
• Part 5: Metamodel for process model registration
• Part 6: Registry Summary
• Part 7: Metamodel for service registration
• Part 8: Metamodel for role and goal registration
• Part 9: On Demand Model Selection (ODMS) [Technical Report]
• Part 10: Core model and basic mapping
• Part 11: Structured model registering (Technical report)
• Part 12: Metamodel for information model registration

• ISO 25964-1:2011 also provides a data model and recommended format for the import and export of thesaurus data.
• ISO 25964-1:2011 is applicable to monolingual and multilingual thesauri.
• ISO 25964-1:2011 is not applicable to the preparation of back-of-the-book indexes, although many of its recommendations could be useful for that purpose.

• ISO 4217:2008 specifies the structure for a three-letter alphabetic code and an equivalent three-digit numeric code for the representation of currencies and funds. For those currencies having minor units, it also shows the decimal relationship between such units and the currency itself.
• ISO 4217:2008 also establishes procedures for a Maintenance Agency, and specifies the method of application for codes.
• ISO 4217:2008 is intended for use in any application of trade, commerce and banking, where currencies and, where appropriate, funds are required to be described. It is designed to be equally suitable for manual users and for those employing automated systems.

• The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is the OMG’s adopted technology for defining metadata and representing it as CORBA objects using UML.
• Do we care about how things get presented in CORBA? It is about how software works together

• Good example of a taxonomy
• http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/

• eXtensible Business Reporting Language
• http://www.xbrl.org/

• The IFRS Taxonomy is the XBRL representation of IFRSs, including International Accounting Standards (IASs), Interpretations, and the IFRS for Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs), issued by the IASB. The IFRS Taxonomy contains tags for all IFRS disclosures.
• http://www.ifrs.org/XBRL/IFRS-Taxonomy/Pages/IFRS-Taxonomy.aspx