Contents

Executive Summary and Preface

An overview of resource description issues

• Scope
• Metadata and its uses
• Some characteristics of investigated metadata formats
• Conclusion

• BibTex
  
• Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
  
• CIMI (Computer Interchange of Museum Information)
  
• Dublin Core
  
• Encoding Archival Description (EAD)
  
• The EELS Metadata Format
  
• The EEVL Metadata Format
  
• FGDC - Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
  
• Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
  
• IAFA/whois++ Templates
  
• ICPSR SGML Codebook Initiative
  
• LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
  
• MARC (General overview)
  
• USMARC
  
• UKMARC
  
• UNIMARC
  
• PICA+
  
• RFC 1807
  
• Summary Object Interchange Format (SOIF)
  
• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Independent Headers
  
• Uniform Resource Characteristics/Citations (URCs)
  
• Warwick Framework
  

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