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> "A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice
> and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.



ON THIS PAGE

 * What Is Metadata?
 * Publications and Presentations
 * Projects
 * Past projects
 * Resources
 * Tutorials
 * Initiatives
 * Metadata Registries


METADATA


WHAT IS METADATA?

Metadata can be defined literally as "data about data," but the term is normally
understood to mean structured data about digital (and non-digital) resources
that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might
include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of
information resources (including rights management) and their long-term
preservation. In the context of digital resources, there exists a wide variety
of metadata formats. Viewed on a continuum of increasing complexity, these range
from the basic records used by robot-based Internet search services, through
relatively simple formats like the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) and
the more detailed Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) header and MARC formats, to
highly specific formats like the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadata, the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the Data Documentation
Initiative (DDI) Codebook

Michael Day's "Metadata in a nutshell" (2001).


PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

 * UKOLN publications and presentations on metadata issues.


PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

We are participants in the following projects and initiatives which relate to
metadata and resource description:

 * DCMI Affiliate Programme
 * Application Profiles Support Project [blog]
 * Evaluating Automated Subject Tools Enhancing Retrieval (EASTER) project
 * FixRep: Enabling Metadata Triage
 * Knowledge Exchange CRIS-OAR project
 * The Metadata Forum [blog]
 * JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR)
 * JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR)
 * SWORD: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit
 * Writeslike.us project

The following projects primarily concern research data management, but also
involve some consideration of metadata topics:

 * Digital Curation Centre
 * Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM) project
 * Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) project
 * PEG-BOARD: Palæoclimate & Environment Data Generation - Building Open
   Access to Research Data

Standards activities

 * UKOLN participation in DCMI

Summaries of related UKOLN activity areas:

 * Digital preservation
 * Repositories
 * Research Information Management
 * Knowledge Organisation Systems

The main focus of the metadata activity at UKOLN is to review current approaches
to resource description and to look at future options for metadata in the wider
contexts of resource discovery and the sustainable management of content.

 * UKOLN staff involved in metadata related projects

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SELECTED PAST PROJECTS

UKOLN has also been involved in the following completed projects and
initiatives:

 * ARCO: Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects
 * eBank UK
 * ePrints UK
 * EPrints Application Profile
 * agentcities.NET: Agent Cities Network
 * AHDS and UKOLN Resource Discovery Workshops (1997)
 * BIBLINK: Linking Publishers and National Bibliographic Services
 * Cedars: CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
 * CORES: Shared Metadata Vocabularies Forum
 * CORES Registry
 * DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
 * DESIRE I: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and
   Education - Phase I
 * DESIRE II: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and
   Education - Phase II
 * DESIRE Metadata Registry
 * EC Metadata Workshop (1997)
 * FILTER metadata review
 * HILT: High Level Thesaurus (Phase I)
 * HILT II: High Level Thesaurus (Phase II)
 * IMesh Toolkit: An architecture and toolkit for distributed subject gateways
 * Knowledge and Information Management Through Life
 * NewsAgent: Electronic news and current awareness for library and information
   staff
 * OA-Forum: Open Archives Forum
 * PRIDE: People and Resources Identification for Distributed Environments
 * RDN/LTSM LOM Application Profile
 * Renardus: Academic Subject Gateway Service Europe
 * Renardus Consortium
 * ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services
 * RSLP Collection Description: enabling consistent collection description
   across Research Support Libraries Programme funded projects
 * SCHEMAS: Forum for Metadata schema implementors
 * SUETr: Start-up and Enhancement Training project [archived blog]
 * TF-CHIC: Cooperative Hierarchical Indexing Coordination


RESOURCES

 * Links to metadata resources.
 * Mapping between metadata formats.
 * Some software tools for handling metadata.
 * DC-dot - a Dublin Core generator.
 * DC-assist - a metadata assistant.
 * RSS-xpress - create, update and register your RSS channel(s).
 * A glossary.
 * Z-directory - a directory of UK Z39.50 targets.
   
 * Collection Level Description and Collection Description Focus.


TUTORIALS

 * OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
 * Encoding DC in (X)HTML, XML and RDF


INITIATIVES

 * Overview of UKOLN participation in DCMI
 * UK DCMI Affiliate
 * Metadata for Education Group (MEG)


METADATA REGISTRIES

 * CORES Registry
 * DESIRE Metadata Registry
 * Dublin Core registries
 * ROADS Template Registry
 * SCHEMAS Metadata Registry

 
 
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