Metadata

General Resources
Summary Report, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Task Force on Metadata, June 1999
	The report includes an appendix with 27 definitions of metadata.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources, IFLA
	This is an extensive list of metadata links from IFLA.
Metadata Resources, UKLON, Arranged by type of metadata

Best Practices
TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects California Digital Library
CDL Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) encoding guidelines California Digital Library

Standards
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data (MARC)
Metadata Encoding and Description Standard (METS)
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Visual Resources Association Core Categories (VRA)

Thesauri
Getty Vocabularies
	Developed by the Getty Vocabulary Program which builds, maintains, and disseminates vocabulary tools for the visual arts and architecture. Includes Art & Architecture Thesaurus® (AAT), the Union List of Artist Names® (ULAN), and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic NamesT (TGN).
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)
	"A thesaurus consisting of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials, as well as numerous cross references. New terms are added continuously."
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
	"This thesaurus of over 600 terms was developed by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, with input from other archival image repositories. New terms are added continuously."

Cataloging Internet Resources
Metadata and Cataloging Internet Resources, Miller, Steve
Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide, Olson, Nancy B. , 2^nd ed
Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
	"This revised set of guidelines is intended to assist catalogers in creating records for electronic resources in WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog.
ISBD(ER): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources
Guidelines for Coding Electronic Resources in Leader/06, Library of Congress. Network Development and MARC Standards Office.
	"This document is intended to assist MARC users in deciding how to code records for electronic resources in Leader/06 (Type of record) and Computer Files 008/26 and 006/09 (Type of computer file)."

Dublin Core
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
	The DCMI home page.
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description
	This document summarizes the definitions for the Dublin Core metadata elements.
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001
Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF), Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Using Dublin Core
	A usage guide for Dublin Core.
Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML
	This document explains how...[Dublin Core] elements are expressed using the META and LINK tags of HTML [HTML4.0].
Resource Description Framework (RDF), W3C
Application Profiles
A Grammar of Dublin Core, Baker, Thomas. D-Lib Magazine, October 2000
What Terms Does Your Metadata Use? Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives, Baker, Thomas and Makx Dekkers, Rachel Heery, Manjula Patel, and Gauri Salokhe. Journal of Digital Information, v.2, issue 2, 11/6/2001
Application Profiles, or how to Mix and Match Metadata Schemas, Dekkers, Makx. Cultivate Interactive, Issue 3, January 2001
Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas, Heery, Rachel and Manjula Patel. Ariadne, Issue 25, September 2000
Library Application Profile/DCMI
	"This document proposes a possible application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core Metadata element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects."
Dublin Core Tools and Software
Dc.dot. An automatic Dublin Core metadata generator from UKLON
Dublin Core Metadata Template/Nordic Metadata Project
Dublin Core Tools and Software/Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
	Utilities, templates, extraction, production, and conversion tools, commercial software.
OCLC Connexion. Edit and create records in either MARC or Dublin Core.
Projects using Dublin Core
Dublin Core Projects - A geographic and alphabetical list of projects using Dublin Core. Submit your Dublin Core project to the list.
Berkeley Digital Image Catalog
Gateway to 21st Century Skills

Miscellaneous
"Death of a Metatag." Sullivan, Danny. The Search Engine Report, Oct. 1, 2002
Meta Tag Lawsuits, Sullivan, Danny
	"Is it illegal to use trademarked terms in your meta tags? Not necessarily. Can you get sued? Yes, and people have."
Search Engine Reviews, Sullivan, Danny

August 15, 2006

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