Metadata

Resources

Resources organised by metadata type

• Channel Definition Format (CDF)
• Dublin Core (DC)
• Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
• Meta Content Framework (MCF)
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
• Multimedia Content Description Interface (MPEG-7)
• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Rich Site Summary (RSS)
• Summary Object Interchange Format (SOIF)
• Uniform Resource Characteristics (URCs)
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)

Related resources

• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
• Open Source Software for Digital Repositories: DSpace and Fedora
• MIME
• SGML
• Unicode
• Unique Identifiers - URN, DOI, SICI, ISBN, ISSN, PURL, etc.
• Uniform Resource Names (URNs)
• Warwick Framework
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Metadata overviews

• Metadata standards for the description of portal users: a review, v. 1.0, by Rosemary Russell, with additional input from Jessica Lindholm. PORTAL project report, 14 January 2003. [PDF]