Standards in the information environment
- Combining metadata from multiple providers
- depends on shared practice
- Metadata syntax
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Growing use of W3C XML Schema e.g.
- OAI PMH
- UK e-government Interoperability Framework
- Metadata semantics
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- simple, unqualified DC as base for interoperability
- Control values of key access points
- subject classification, audience level, resource type, provenance