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O p e n A r c h i v e s I n i t i a t i v e Home Documents Tools Community News Organization News from the OAI Community 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining independence with e-prints archives and OAI LIBER, SPARC-Europe and the CERN Library are organizing this workshop at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) on 17-19 October 2002. OAI-PMH Version 2 BETA Release. The version ...

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Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) The PICSTM specification enables labels (metadata) to be associated with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering ...

Metadata Projects We are participants in the following projects which relate to resource description: agentcities.NET: Agent Cities Network ARCO: Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects CORES: Shared Metadata Vocabularies Forum DESIRE Metadata Registry FILTER metadata review IMesh Toolkit: An architecture and toolkit for distributed subject gateways OA-Forum: Open Archives Forum Renardus: ...

Naming and Addressing: URIs, URLs, ... Intro Events/Pubs Discussion Groups Bookmarks This is an overview of W3C materials related to Addressing. The URI Activity Statement explains W3C's work on this topic in more detail. The IETF Draft Standard for URIs is the current specification, along with IANA's list of URI schemes, a BCP for scheme registration process, and guidelines for new ...

The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report DC-4 March 3 - 5, 1997 National Library of Australia, Canberra Stuart Weibel, OCLC, weibel@oclc.org Renato Iannella, DSTC, renato@dstc.edu.au Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia, wcathro@nla.gov.au D-Lib Magazine, June 1997 ISSN 1082-9873 Introduction The Dublin Core Workshop Series is an ongoing effort to form an international consensus on ...

Metadata, PICS and Quality Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. A recent Ariadne article by Anagnostelis, Cooke and McNab ended with a reference to the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) and added that while PICS controls neither the publication nor the distribution of information, it offers individuals and organisations the ...

Metadata Resources Dublin Core - DC The Dublin Core is a metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums, libraries, government agencies and commercial organizations. The key characteristics of the Dublin ...

Universal Resource Identifiers Contents About this document Informational RFC disclaimer or Internet draft disclaimer while ID status The need for a Universal Syntax Design Criteria and Choices Recommendations Relative (partial) URIs Fragment identifiers Specific Schemes BNF description of the generic URI syntax BNF description of specific schemes Security considerations References Author's ...

An MCF Tutorial Editors: Tim Bray (Textuality) tbray@textuality.com R.V. Guha (Netscape Communications) guha@netscape.com Abstract This document provides an introduction to the concepts behind the Meta Content Framework (MCF) and to the syntax used to store it. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Properties, Objects, and Categories 3. Storing Objects and Properties 4. The Directed Linked ...

JUDY AND MAGDA'S LIST OF METADATA INITIATIVES This information has not been updated since 1997. Readers who are interested in more up to date information than that presented here should consult the ALCTS bibliography at: http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/netresources/bib_main.html Below is a list of metadata schema and proposals that have the potential of being widely used as standards for ...

Meta Content Framework Using XML Editors: R.V. Guha (Netscape Communications) guha@netscape.com Tim Bray (Textuality) tbray@textuality.com Abstract This document provides the specification for a data model for describing information organization structures (metadata) for collections of networked information. It also provides a syntax for the representation of instances of this data model ...

ROADS: Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and ...

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and it's applications Juha Hakala Helsinki University Library juha.hakala@helsinki.fi Version 2.5 25.6.1997 Contents Metadata in general Metadata formats Dublin Core Nordic Metadata Project Metadata in general Metadata is data which describes attributes of a resource. Typically, it supports a number of functions: location, discovery, documentation, evaluation, ...