Advanced Meta Data Architecture - David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
Metadata.Net Home Page - Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
UKOLN Metadata - Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
Metadata at W3C - Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
What is Metadata? - Alexandria Digital Library
Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT) - Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
University of Queensland: An Introduction to Metadata - Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
Resource Guide to Metadata - Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Site describes ontologies for science.
EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group - 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.
MetaMap - An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us. - By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
Index Data - Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
Metadata Gateway - 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.
Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies - This standard describes the metadata that the National Archives of Australia recommends should be captured in the recordkeeping systems used by Commonwealth government agencies. The text of the standard is available in html, pdf, and downloadable as a zip file.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources - IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
Metacrap - Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
CanCore - 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.
FASTER - Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
Metadata Standards and Information Analysis - Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Specification - 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.
SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution) - 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.
National Curriculum Metadata Standard - Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
EServer TC Library: Metadata - A collection of more than 65 rated, reviewed online resources in metadata cataloguing.
Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore) - 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.
Metadata Research Center (MRC) - 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.
Agricultural Metadata Element Set Project - 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.
Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) - Background information and a technical specification for this metadata format.
WebMonkey: Metadata, Mark II - Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.
Metadata projects, resources, workshops - European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management - News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.
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