Metadata - General

See also the resources page mentioned in the Web pages for LIS 415.

Overviews & resources

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata: Section 6.1 of Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Introduction to Metadata: Now in Version 2.1. Companion site for the book of the same name, with articles, glossaries, crosswalks, and many other resources.
Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge: A NISO workshop, May 20, 2004. PowerPoint files all online.
UKOLN Metadata: Maintained by Michael Day and Andy Powell. Describes the activities of the UKOLN Metadata Group, and provides links to other resources. Includes a section on Mapping Between Metadata Formats, and a terrific collection of Presentations, including many tutorials.

Got stuff? Name it! Deposit it!: Subtitled "A gentle introduction to naming and repository services". A brown bag lunch presentation, April 2000, by Jim Coleman. Specifically for Harvard, but does a nice job of explaining naming systems.
Identifiers and Identification Systems: Subtitled "an informational look at policies and roles from a library perspective", by Giuseppe Vitiello, in D-Lib Magazine, 10(1), 2004.
Implementing Persistent Identifiers: "Written by the Research and Development Department of the Goettingen State and University Library (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) at the request of the Advisory Task Group of the Consortium of European Research Libraries."
Web Naming & Addressing: The W3C's URI work, with links to internal and external resources.
Web Naming and Addressing Overview: From the W3C, on URLs, URIs, et al.

ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1966 - Serial item and Contribution Identifier: Available in PDF only from NISO.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): The International DOI Foundation's site.
The Handle System: Maintained by CNRI (the Corporation for National Research Initiatives).

The Cover Pages: Robin Cover's informative and very rich directory - cited by everyone.
Extensible Markup Language (XML): The W3C XML home page, which includes the Extensible Markup Language Activity Statement
Resource Description Framework (RDF): The W3C RDF home page. There's also an RDF primer.
Semantic Web Home (Metadata at the W3C): Links to W3C activities, standards, and works-in-progress.
SGML: A resource page maintained at the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
The XML FAQ: By Peter Flynn. Extensive and understandable.
XML.com: From O'Reilly - a good resource for articles, tutorials, news, products and services, FAQs, and other materials.
XML4Lib: Like Web4Lib, from the Berkleley Sunsite.