Metadata Resources Links to Articles about and Projects involving Metadata
AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
The AAT is an evolving vocabulary, growing and changing thanks to contributions from Getty projects and other institutions.
CEDARS, CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/metadata.html
Metadata for Preservation.
CMCM Capturing Unstable Media Conceptual Model
http://www.v2.nl/Projects/capturing/index.html
Conceptual model for documenting and describing art projects developed by V2.
DUBLIN CORE Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org
An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
IASA Cataloguing Rules
http://www.iasa-web.org/icat/
A manual for description of sound recordings and related audiovisual media.
Introduction into Metadata
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/
Provided by the Getty Research Institute.
MANS
http://ucdarnet.org/writing/rinehart.htm
Media Art Notation System developed out of Archiving the Avant Garde and the Variable Media Network.
MARC formats
http://www.loc.gov/marc/ndmso.html
The MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging record) formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
MPEG
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
http://www.openarchives.org/
OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
OAIS (Open Archival Information System)
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=3201
The OAIS Reference Model is a conceptual framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term.
PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies)
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/
OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata.
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